Wednesday, March 30, 2005

I received an invite to Yahoo 360

Well I just received an invite to Yahoo 360 from Erik Thauvin (thanks Erik!). It's Yahoo's blog/social-networking app. My threadbare Yahoo 360 blog lives here: http://360.yahoo.com/jonathan_aquino.

I don't know about you, but I want my blog to be preserved for eternity. That's why I signed up with Blogger -- Google's stewardship of the Usenet archives has shown me that they are committed to preserving user-created content for the long haul. Another candidate is OurMedia.org, backed by the Internet Archive which has altruistically maintained snapshots of a good portion of the web since 1996, under the leadership of the eccentric Brewster Kahle. So they too have proven their commitment.

I don't know about Yahoo though... Their culture screams commercialism to me. I don't know if I want to hand my data over to them, for fear of it being deleted. Case in point: Yahoo Mail deletes all your mail if you don't log for a certain period of time. This is an example of stinginess toward the customer. Counter-example: GMail, which offers 1 GB of space and email forwarding -- probably the only free webmail service to offer these features.

I'll take generosity over stinginess any day.

(If you want a Yahoo 360 invite, send me an email. I've got 100 to give out.)
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18 comments:

  1. Anonymous3/30/2005 4:09 p.m.

    gmail deletes your mail too if you don't log in for a while.
    http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6563&query=delete&topic=0&type=f&ctx=search

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  2. Jonathan3/30/2005 6:44 p.m.

    Thanks for pointing that out. Hrm.

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  3. Darius Kazemi3/30/2005 7:22 p.m.

    Ooh. Send me an invite. I've been itching to see what all the fuss is about. Here's a throwaway email address you can use:
    yahoo.2.dariusk@spamgourmet.com

    (I love Spamgourmet.)

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  4. Jonathan3/30/2005 10:22 p.m.

    Hi Darius - I've sent you an invite to your spamgourmet address.

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  5. Col3/31/2005 11:08 a.m.

    Johnathon, id love an invite if you've got any spare, love to see what this 360 is all about!
    colinwilliams007 aht gmail dhot com

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  6. Jonathan3/31/2005 11:38 a.m.

    Alright, I've got maybe 90 invites left to give out. Keep those requests coming.

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  7. Juan L.4/01/2005 3:27 a.m.

    Hi Jonathan,

    I have a blog at blogger too. I want to try out Yahoo360. If you have an invitation left, send it to johnles360@yahoo.com.

    Thanks.

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  8. pooya_ww4/01/2005 8:28 a.m.

    hello..
    i found your Weblog from yahoo search..
    I was searhing for yahoo360 invite..
    can i request that from you..?
    Email: pooya_ww@yahoo.com

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  9. Anonymous4/03/2005 1:00 a.m.

    Hello:
    If you send me invitation of yahoo 360,I very thankful you.
    My mail is:tomcat_nsn@yahoo.com

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  10. Anonymous4/06/2005 9:23 a.m.

    Hi please send me a yahoo 360 beta invite.

    Ive been awaiting its release for ages but cant get an invite. I would be very grateful for one.

    My Email is janacksan92@aol.com

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  11. Jonathan4/06/2005 12:32 p.m.

    Alright, invites sent. Keep those requests coming!

    Especially Gmail invite requests - now *that's* a great service.

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  12. Anonymous5/09/2005 6:23 a.m.

    Do you have a Yahoo! 360 left?
    I'm on tribe.net now as

    Diana Earl
    http://washington.tribe.net/person/f7e17e84-916b-4991-8b48-bc0f5b0b2256

    My email is littleredhairedgirl@gmail.com

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  13. Jonathan5/09/2005 8:14 a.m.

    OK Diana, invite sent.

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  14. Anonymous5/10/2005 12:06 p.m.

    Hi Jonathan,

    Pls. send me a Yahoo-360 invite.
    email: sirsidd@lycos.com

    Thanks -Sidd
    ps: You do have some real cool snaps in your kitchen!

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  15. Jonathan5/10/2005 12:12 p.m.

    Done!

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  16. Anonymous5/12/2005 1:36 a.m.

    You also can try myTrashMail.com

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  17. Anonymous8/04/2005 12:00 p.m.

    This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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  18. Jonathan8/04/2005 7:37 p.m.

    Hi Alex - That garden is my mom's doing - it's her pride and joy.

    I will send you a Y!360 invite!

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