Yahoo! Blogs?
Interesting… both http://blog.yahoo.com and http://blogs.yahoo.com/ redirect to http://groups.yahoo.com (the significance is that they resolve and redirect in the first place). Also found this http://kr.blog.yahoo.com on a Korean website.
I wonder if the Korean blog site is a test for a more international version on Yahoo!?
Subscribe
August 25th, 2003 at 6:33 pm
Congrats. You’re being /.ed ( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/122226&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=188&tid=95&threshold=1 )
August 25th, 2003 at 6:50 pm
This is just proof that the U.S. is quickly not going to be the center of the internet universe much longer. Korea has ubiquitous 24megabit internet for under $20 a month. Japan is not far behind. With broadband being ubiquitous in these countries the net becomes far far more useable for the average person and it’s a fertile environment for various net sevices that will not happen in the USA for a long time.
August 26th, 2003 at 10:32 am
Japan has 26Mbps DSL now and more than half a million people on 100Mbps fiber to the home!
August 29th, 2003 at 8:46 pm
From what I see on the Korean site, the blogs they offer appear to have decent built-in features (automatic RSS feed generation, hit counter, etc.) but little personality. All the ones I clicked on looked essentially the same. For my money, TypePad looks more impressive (www.typepad.com).
August 30th, 2003 at 12:32 am
Blimey. slashdotted. Wasn’t expecting that. Cheers guys!
I can’t believe Japan and Korea have such fast internet connections. Makes our 512K seem pretty meagre.
Personally I don’t have a particular response to the possibility of Yahoo! Blogs - on the one hand it’s adding countless more “today I watched…” blogs to the blogosphere, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing (for families contacting each other its great - I have more to discuss about this somewhere else perhaps). On the other hand it’s exposing blogging to a much larger, domestic audience, which increases awareness dramatically.
Anyway, thanks for the continued linkage and comments!
August 30th, 2003 at 12:37 am
Just spotted this: http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2003/103081412.asp
via Surfarama (http://www.surfarama.com/blog/weblog.php)
Worth having a read! (was dated Aug 14)