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Yahoo! 360º is a personal communication portal similar to Google 's Orkut , Friendster and the incredibly popular MySpace , currently in Beta testing. It integrates features of Social Networking , Blog ging, and photo sharing sites. A user may create a personal web site, share their photos from Yahoo! Photos, maintain a blog, a list of local reviews, profile information, and see which friends are currently online. The service launched on March 29 , 2005 on an invite-only basis, similar to Gmail . The service removed its invite-only status on June 24 , 2005 and has since become available to any Yahoo! user over the age of 18 in the United States , the United Kindom , France , Germany , Canada , Australia and Japan .

Several other Yahoo! properties are integrated with 360° in some fashion. These include:


New features introduced with 360°:
  • Themes.

  • Blog, complete with RSS feeds;

  • Lists, where users may compile interests, favorite Movies , books, and so on;

  • Blasts, quick posts or ideas that are neither published in the Blog nor archived;

  • Testimonials, "review" and praise your close friends.

  • Reviews from Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel and Yahoo! Games



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