Yahoo plans to step up work in social services and blogs, developing its
Yahoo 360 ° service , said company representatives at the
Web 2.0 Conference .
“Yahoo 360 ° will turn 180 degrees,” said Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo’s vice president, when asked why Yahoo isn’t developing blog services. His words are quoted by
PC World . Recall that Yahoo 360 ° was launched in March of this year and still remains in beta.
According to
comScore's September statistics,
Blogger (
Google’s owner) remains the leading blog service in the United States: 21 million users visit it.
MySpace takes the 2nd place (16 million),
Windows Live Spaces - the third (9.8 million),
SixApart services - 9.3 million,
Xanga - 7 million. Yahoo 360 ° looks rather weak against this background - only 5.7 million
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Social media projects and blogging are becoming key to Yahoo’s strategy, company officials say. The basis of the strategy will be Yahoo 360 °, as well as new acquisitions, which the company plans to make in the near future (most likely, we are talking about
Facebook ).