Yahoo!, they are incredible. After closing several important services in recent years (Yahoo! Mash – closed since the beta phase, Yahoo! Photos – service closed, and users were invited to migrate to Flickr, Yahoo! 360 – Closed, etc …), now they straightened out “attention” to Geocities.
Final notice: GeoCities is closing.
Dear Yahoo! GeoCities customer,
We’re writing to remind you that Yahoo! GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009.
On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files.
Yahoo! Geocities it is it was a service of free hosting, which offered several tool-s to create very quickly Web pages. Not a few have chosen this service to create basic web pages, and not a few have used the disk space of Yahoo! Geocities to store personal data.
The decision of YAHOO! to close GeoCities, in my opinion, is little “shifted”. There are people who have web pages for several years on GeoCities, and a move hosting / URL change I don't think is welcome. In addition, Yahoo! does not offer users any free hosting solution as an alternative, other than the Yahoo! Hosting “for only $4.99 a month“.
That the vanity is done as it should be until the end, under the page header geocities.com the banners from the services are displayed hosting platit of Yahoo!.
What trust can we have in Yahoo!, when we see that year after year they close their services? WANT longevity, stability and innovation. Even if they are services offered free of charge, Yahoo! is a company that should have to inspire confidence. As easy as they made the decisions to close Yahoo! 360, Yahoo! Photos and Yahoo! GeoCities, I can just as easily close others. Yahoo! Messenger, which is known to be not a profitable business for Yahoo!, would be a potential targeted service (good thing I don't use it anymore). Even though Yahoo! Messenger has several million users, after the closure of Geocities.com, Google it will ease by approx 32 million pages. As many as are currently indexed by Google SE.
Finally, Yahoo! they have shown stability and longevity, so the time has come to show a little innovation. They have released a new service to the general public (it was only available to testers for a while). Yahoo! Meme.
Yahoo! Meme
Yahoo! Meme, it is an extraordinary service and with everything new. If you have an account of Twitter, be very careful not to confuse it with the Yahoo! Memes.
Shown, looks good and is very easy to use. I see that many who have activated their Yahoo! Memes hardly post images. I am curious how long this service will last. A year? Two?
Yahoo! Meme – Yahoo! GeoCities
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