Charlene Li gets an extensive preview of Yahoo’s new social-networking cum blogging service, Yahoo 360, and likes what she sees:
Central to the whole service is the concept that you want to communicate and connect with the people that you already know, rather than try to meet new people. To this end, your home page on the service shows the most recent content published by people within your network. This might be a blog post, a photo album, review, or an updated profile item. This page is constantly refreshed as the people in your network update the information on their spaces. This fundamental concept of linking people through their updated “stuff” is what makes Yahoo! 360 unique – and inherently will drive usage of the service higher than traditional social networks. In essence, the content is being pushed to you by the service.
This is an exciting little concept, and I can’t wait to see what kind of effect this will have on Yahoo’s 160+ million user population.