Yahoo Experimenting with Blogs?

Tee Emm writes "Sven Latham reports on his Yet Another Blog that Yahoo is (probably) experimenting with its blog services for its general users. The test bench is in Korea and may be followed by an international service on yahoo.com. On the main Yahoo site, blogs.yahoo.com as well as blog.yahoo.com both are active though they take you to yahoo groups interface."

Not first post, first blog.

[51M02]

I would be interested in knowing which was the first blog system site ever created. My guess would be LiveJournal.com but I won't be sure. Does someone has a clue?

I don't know about this...

[Capt_Troy]

There's something about a blog that is entirely created and maintained by the blogger. I mean, would any of us really read wil wheaton's site [wilwheaton.net] if he just kept it at yahoo?

Nothing against yahoo or anything. It's great for people who don't have the resources or knowledge to maintain such a thing, but I doubt I'll be perusing the blogs on yahoo any time soon. Would you?

t.

Let's count

[mrpuffypants]

So now we've got:

• Blogger-Powered by Google
• Typepad-From those that brought you MovableType
• Slashdot Journals-From those that brought you misspeeled dupes
• Typepad
• AOL Journals-From those that brought you cybersex
• Yahoo! Journals-From those that brought you the dotcom bubble

...All so that we can hear about a 14 year old and her first day of school and how "impossible" Jr. High is. Wonder-fucking-full.

Wheres Aol?

[OfficerNoGun]

I don't really see this doing anything to the blog world. If aol did one (or partnered with someone) It could be really usefull. Let it replace buddy profiles, have a little button on AIM to post a blog, Have a read my blog button in an AIM window. Hold the blogs at central server, but serve them locally (the only person who would hit there server would be the user, everyone else would read the blog off of the users computer, like the profiles are now). Im not really saying this will be usefull in anyway to the internet at large, but I't would let let blogs grow.

Re:I don't know about this...

[m00nun1t]

Just like no one would use an OS where you didn't have to compile the kernel yourself?

Blogging is still pretty niche and dominated by techie talk, and a LOT of meta-blogging. Something like this, the AOL blogging service and presumably MSN blogs (was in job ads a few months ago) will bring blogging to the masses, for better or worse.

Re:Not first post, first blog.

[dema]

According to an item in the LJ FAQ, LJ was started sometime in March 1999 [livejournal.com] while blogger.com says it was launched in August 1999 [blogger.com]. Those are the two older ones I can think of and if they really are the two oldest it appears that LJ beat blogger to the punch.

Re:Does anyone still use Yahoo!?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't mind the Yahoo company and their sites. They keep all seem to be pretty userfriendly and they use HTML they way it should be used. Of all the giant companies doign websites they are only bested by Google IMHO.

Blogs are repetative

[jj00]

My roommate has a Photo Journal [davefry.net] on his web site. While some days are really cool, and he is a really talented amature photographer, most days consist on what he ate for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

I generally use it to figure out what I was doing on a particular day. His girlfriend gets a bit embarrased - she must feel like a rock star at times.

I'm wondering if in the long run this is work Yahoo's time and money. If it is cheap to implement, then why not.

Yawn...Blogs are just

[bob670]

an overly tech oriented replacment for "Dear Diary" and a waste of time for most readers. So unless your the current equivalent of Lewis & Clark or General Grant or Abraham Lincoln it's pretty much just cheap therapy and soap boxes for the commons...

Not trying to create flamebait, but honestly, what use is...

Dear Blog (July 25): Just read an article on Yahoo about the guy with no feet who is walking cross county on his hands to raise money for kids born without ear lobes. Isn't that uplifting???

Dear Blog (July 25) I love my new iMac, it's just so yummy and friendly, not like the evil Micro$oft Winblows. Yuck!

Dear Blog (July 26): I hate that darn Marsha Brady, she's just so perfect!!!

Dear Blog (July 29): I just read an article on Yahoo about world politics, what follows are my 3.5 pages of unfocussed rant, aren't I smart world?

Dear Blog (July 30): Why won't he notice me damnit? Well, he'll notice when his cat disappears, the PETA website says we should free all the domestically enslaved house pets anyway. Here goes nothing?

Dear Blog (July 31): Mom took me to the doctor today, they say the Lithium will take the edge off, but I am not sure what that means. Think I will take a nap now......

Who F ing cares, personal Blogs are 99% attention whoring. And there's plenty of chat rooms, message boards and newsgroups for that purpose, just use this post as an example.

No One Patented This?

[Greyfox]

Call me paranoid but I got $10 that says that once they get established, some guy comes along with a submarine patent and sues them and every other blog site on the Internet.

If no one has patented blogging, it's not too late as many previous patent suits have shown us!

Re:Does anyone still use Yahoo!?

[hswerdfe]

I still use maps.yahoo.com [yahoo.com]
in my opinion its still the best map finder on the web.
Fuck mapquest [mapquest.com]

Re:Yes it is true

[kermitron]

Korea seems to be massive for a lot of things internet related, and faster adapting too, so it's no shock that they'd test it there.

For example, you take a look at the highest trafficked sites [alexa.com]. Not surprisingly, the top sites are yahoo and MSN... but somewhere around #3 you get a Korean site and from there on down you get a pretty solid representation between sites that are primarily American, Korean and Japanese.

Makes total Sense

[Monofilament]

Well hmm what happened earlier this year?

Google bought blogger.com or something like that, the biggest of the Blog hosting sites/engines.

So in Yahoo's scramble.. to figure out why they're loosing to google, they're gonna start blogs too.

Personally i think Yahoo has always had a lot going for them .. they should try and keep doing their thing instead of copying Google. Google is a wonderful salad bowl search engine .. but well .. their categorization of things into easy categories has somethingn to be desired. I've alwasy gone to yahoo for stuff when i didn't exactly know what the site was but I wanted to find it by driling down in categories. Yahoo has always been good for that.

oh well maybe they'll figure out what their looking for some day.

What I want from MY blog:

[NaveWeiss]

I hope Yahoo enables all of these fatures:

• Topic icons and preferably custom. I love topic icons!
• Friends like in here, along with new journal notifications. Communities are nice too (like in LiveJournal) but I'm not used to them.
• Erase comments of annoying people and ban them too, and block anonymous posters. Slashdot kinda lacks in that.
• Embedding pictures in the blog and preferably allowing to upload them on the same server too.
• Lists that can appear on the side of the blog.
• Marital status, searchable. Blogs can be a great dating service too!

What do you think? Will they enable those things?

Re:On LiveJournal and Blogging

[vpetersen]

QUOTE "LiveJournal predates the term 'blog', which is one reason why it's called "LiveJournal" and not "LiveBlog". Back when Brad Fitzpatrick was writing what would later become LiveJournal, I was writing something similar." /END QUOTE

Let's not forget about finger. Probably the earlist easily identifiable 'blog' (what an ugly term) predecessor. Many game developers and security experts had their finger info available for access over www. Those were thoughts and ideas! Unlike 99% of blogs existing today.