China Yahoo Launch Yahoo Contacts

August 12 - Yahoo China was recently launched social networking services - Yahoo contacts, the service is currently used to invite a registration mechanism. It is understood that Yahoo China from the United States last year, Yahoo has introduced a social attributes of Yahoo! 360, and the name of Yahoo space operations.

Yahoo China to abandon My Yahoo! Business

Sohu IT found that Yahoo contacts domain name is http://my.cn.yahoo.com, and in foreign countries my.yahoo.com is My Yahoo! Used. It is understood, My Yahoo! IGoogle is similar to the services, users can My Yahoo! Add RSS feeds, weather, constellations and other modules. Yahoo China has been no official Chinese version of My Yahoo!, From the contact to use My Yahoo domain, not Yahoo China launched My Yahoo! Plan.

Yahoo in July this year, the United States formally launched the new My Yahoo!. The biggest new feature is that in addition to the right-hand column of the Yahoo ads, users can better organize their content.

Yahoo invited to contact the current registration system, users need to have registered users can obtain a registration key registration, but Sohu IT users did not find the entrance to the invitation. This one on condition of anonymity, said internal has not yet been opened to outside users in China Yahoo the right to use the invitation.

Yahoo's community-based strategies have been wavering

October 2006, Xie Wen, general manager of Yahoo China and Yahoo said to be done, but working 40 days after the Lightning Xie Wen left. Xie Wen Yahoo community strategies to end in failure.

February 2007, Yahoo China from the United States Yahoo introduced a Yahoo! 360 °, named Yahoo space. Yahoo then will the original album, Friends of geopolitical people to integrate Yahoo services such as space, and in 2007 launched a match demand, music show, Huabao She and other services, but with the Yahoo China early this year of layoffs and restructuring in China Yahoo service life The determination of the strategy, Yahoo has cut some services space, the only blog and photo albums in the operation.

Yahoo contacts in addition to integrating Yahoo Mail, did not integrate other community services, especially Yahoo album. Sohu IT found, click on other users to share images, open the picture is actually the final page, can not comment or tagging, and other operational functions is very weak.

At present, the social networking sites have not yet found a clear profit model. "Yahoo China's reputation and life services to be done after the merger, it is impossible to invest too much in the community, while Yahoo's strategy has been changed, the business does not have enough patience, it is very difficult in the community of its business success." A departure from the Yahoo! The informed source said.