On Yahoo!’s Q3 Earnings call yesterday, it was announced that we intend to transition Yahoo! 360 to a more integrated Yahoo! experience in early 2008. We want to provide additional information on this news and assure you that we will minimize any disruption to you and our valued Yahoo! 360 community. We also want to assure you that you can still use all the features of Yahoo! 360 until this transition takes place in early 2008.

We will be sharing specifics of this transition over the next several months, but we can tell you today that Yahoo! 360 will transition to a new universal Yahoo! profile that will be closely tied to other relevant services across Yahoo!, and will include improved blogging capabilities.

With the announcement of this transition, we assure you:

• We will preserve your Yahoo! 360 blog content, profile photo, nickname, and friends lists during and after the transition
• We will provide the right tools to move your blog content;
• We will give you ample notice before this transition begins in early 2008.

The vibrant community that has flourished on Yahoo! 360 is important to many people, and it is important to Yahoo!. Providing a smooth transition is a top priority for us, and we want to emphasize that we are committed to preserving your blog content and friends lists throughout the transition.

Many of you have asked if Mash, Yahoo!’s experimental profile service, will replace Yahoo! 360. We know this is an important question for many of you, and even more so given this news. We don't have all the answers today, but we are testing solutions, including Mash, in order to provide a more integrated universal Yahoo! profile throughout the Yahoo! network.

We hear your concerns. We are listening to your feedback, and we are committed to providing a more useful, engaging, and valuable service in the future.

Best,

The Yahoo! 360 Team

I know some of you have been frustrated lately with problems sharing your Yahoo! Photos on Yahoo! 360°. A couple folks even contacted me directly, pointing out that they switched to Flickr and found it much more satisfying. Others wrote in, wondering why we had two photo sharing services -- isn't one enough? By focusing on a single photo service, they reasoned, wouldn't it make life easier for us all by doing one thing (and doing it really, really well)?

Well, as you may have heard, Yahoo! Photos is shutting its doors soon. And in the process, we’re making it easy for people to move their pictures from photos.yahoo.com to other photo sharing sites, including Flickr. This also now includes the Flickr transition for people who use international versions of Yahoo! Photos (especially since we’ve also recently launched Flickr in seven languages).

If you already have a Flickr account, you know that Flickr makes it easy to manage and share your photos. It also gives you lots of ways to find and explore interesting pictures from the Flickr community. And if you prefer to share your photos only with friends and family, Flickr offers a number of privacy controls.

If you don't already have a Flickr account, now is a great time to set one up. I think the Yahoo! Photos users who choose Flickr are going to have fun with it (and will enjoy being part of the Flickr community). If you want to share pictures with your friends on Yahoo! 360°, I'd recommend using Flickr. It's easy. Really easy.

If you don’t currently use Yahoo! Photos or Flickr, set up an account and upload photos on Flickr. For both U.S. and international Yahoo! Photos users, here’s how to move your photos to Flickr:

• Go to http://www.flickr.com
• Register with your Yahoo! ID
• Upload your photos. They need to be public on Flickr to appear on your Yahoo! 360° page
• Read more about public photos and privacy settings
• Next, share your photos on Yahoo! 360°:
• Go to My Page > Share Photos
• Click "begin sharing" and add the Yahoo! ID associated with your Flickr account

Any questions? Ask away in our comments section.

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as you may have heard:

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/06/13/give-your-photos-the-fun-of-flickr/

seven languages:

http://blog.flickr.com/en/2007/06/12/flickr-international-launch/

http://www.flickr.com:

http://www.flickr.com

upload:

http://flickr.com/photos/upload/

Read more:

http://360.yahoo.com/edit/yphotos.html

Share photos:

http://360.yahoo.com/edit/yphotos.html

Thank you for your great responses last week. Your inputs have made us realise how the flood has impacted some of the 360° community and what needs to be done, and some of you raised some great points as well. (See - that's what I meant by the power of blogs )

In particular, andyinchelt posted this comment,


I wonder what's your take on this, but my little research found that there is actually a blog by the Cheltenham council, and probably you might be interested to know that,

Our emergency team is asking people to dispose of their plastic bottles by using the new recycling banks. [...]

Isn't it great news? Please also feel free to leave the emergency team a few cheers here; it must have been a tough week for them!

Also I see that some of you might actually want to roll up your sleeves and help people who are in need. In that regard, please take a look at do-it.org, which is also featured on Yahoo! For Good. It is an online database of volunteering opportunities across the UK and you can search by postcode as well (how handy)! As well as the Freecycle.org community that allows you to pick up or give out anything useful to prevent creating unnecessary rubbish.

On a final note, do you also recyle? Or you find it too difficult to start?




Thanks for sharing.

Cathy
UK & Ireland 360° Team