Finally Yahoo closing its blogging & social platform Yahoo 360. It’s been almost two years since Yahoo first announced 360 was closing. Yahoo 360 user can download their personal content before July 12, 2009. on July 13, 2009 Yahoo! 360° will be closing down
Yahoo official said it "Today, we’re able to firmly say that on July 13, 2009 Yahoo! 360° will be closing down and you’ll be asked to move into your new profile on Yahoo!, by July 12, 2009."
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So why they tool so long to close it? Well According to yahoo, "Before we could retire 360, we had to find a sustainable and adequate solution for your personal information. We know how important your blog entries and profile information is to each of you, and we wanted to be able to maintain the integrity of this content. Rather than rushing the process and risking data loss"
Yahoo is focusing in other property of business such as Search, Mail, Hosting for small business etc. Yahoo tried to step in to social space via mash but it was a disaster and they closed it. Now Yahoo also trying to enter in Micro Blogging space via new startup Yahoo Meme
Yahoo closed too many services for focusing other entity of business like Yahoo briefcase, Yahoo geocites, Jumpcut & now Yahoo 360
