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Yahoo! Tech is closing

lacisoft — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:20:50 +0000

Is there anything left for Yahoo to close ? After shutting down Photos, Geocites, 360 and whatnot now they’re closing Yahoo Tech! too. A sad company Yahoo became.

Yahoo just lost a friend

lacisoft — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:28:03 +0000

Yahoo Messenger is the IM software i use most often, not that i really like it but here everyone is using it. So if i want to talk to someone i have to use it.

Two days ago it asked me if i want it to automatically update itself. I said why not, lets make sure is up to date and i won’t have surprises with some potential security hole or bug in the older version.

But here is what happened. Instead of updating only my Yahoo Messenger application the updater without asking me anything installed Yahoo Toolbar both for Firefox and Internet Explorer. I don’t hate too many things but toolbars are among those things. And i was shocked that Yahoo does such lame things. Install their annoying toolbar under false pretext of updating my messenger app.

I can say this. The toolbars didn’t stayed enough on my computer to take their breath after the install. And Yahoo lost a friend.

If i ever had any sympathy for Yahoo and their business then with this move they wiped it out.

Yahoo closes Geocities this year

lacisoft — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:22:39 +0000

I learned that Yahoo plans to shut down Geocities later this year. This is a sad news. Geocities was the place were i hosted my first website back in the year 2000. At that time Geocities was one of the few free choices to host a website and it was a pioneer on the modern web.

Blogs didn’t exist then so people made websites using all kind of editors, everything from Notepad to Microsoft Word. You could find websites on any subject, from collecting stamps to astronomy.

Sure the Geocities offering today is behind many similar services, but shutting it down completely seems a rather radical gesture from Yahoo. Today i no longer use Geocities, but somehow i feel attached to that service and i’m convinced that it is possible to improve it and make it better and more profitable. But i’m not Yahoo’s CEO.

If you ask me to name 3 websites that somehow has influenced my life Geocities would be among those 3.

R. I. P. Geocities