Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

Following the last comment on Yahoo’s new movements - "Yahoo acquires Flickr, the next generation Yahoo services", here is a quick reference on Yahoo! 360. The current services offered includes: Blog, Mobile Authoring (publish texts and photos from mobile phones), Photo Sharing, Social Listing and Exchange (personal recommendations on books, music, movies and TV programs etc…), Quick Communication Tools, and Music Sharing (little similar to the MSN music albums in personal space publishing?). The thumbnail is captured from yahoo! site, goto http://360.yahoo.com/ and check it out! Here is D’Arcy Norman’s first opinion on Yahoo! 360.

It's funny that this morning on the way to work I was thinking about how flickr should expand their service to a wider audience. I know such a service can be really profitable in Asia. Then here I read this from a Chinese news network (Xinhua)

BEIJING, Mar. 22 -- Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. President Stewart Butterfield on Monday confirmed Yahoo has agreed to acquire its photo-sharing Web site Flickr.

Wonder what's Yahoo really up to, they have recently acquired multiple companies and rolloing out bundled services such as blogging, wiki and group organizers. Here's a quote that may answer the question:

Last week, Yahoo said its 360 service will combine instant messaging, photo storage and sharing, and Internet radio together. It is currently being tested by employees, and will be made available to Yahoo users by March 29.

So I guess Yahoo = search engine + game + instant messaging + blog + photo storage + internet radio + 300 other services!