Yahoo!360°VS MSN Space

Yesterday, I've got an inviation of Yahoo! 360° from Jeremy and played with it for 20 minutes then gave up. The new service of Yahoo! is undoubted a great idea that integrates all the tradintional and hottest stuff together including e-mail, blog, photo share and social network, it also allows you to IM with friends who use Yahoo! messenger. Hence, you can build a personal info portal in short time without any IT background. However, I wonder why I should use the service. Now I can chat with my friends by using MSN messenger, email and save contact information by GMAIL, share pictures on flickr, save bookmarks in del.icio.us, write blog here. I used to enjoy these tools in my daily life, how can Yahoo! 360° attract me to switch to it? I don't know, at least by now I've never thought about switching.

I think that's the problem Yahoo! has to face with. Today there are too many applications online for users to choose, some good services own loyal users because of their high performance and word-of-mouth spread. Service integration is good but it should be based on the user base. The key point is the user custom. In other words, if Microsoft delivers the same service to MSN users as Yahoo! does, it can succeed more easily(sounds familiar? yes, MSN Space). The advantage of Yahoo! 360° is its social network concept that MSN space dosen't have. As you know, the social network service is not a new idea, and it may help one website gather users more quickly than ever. But the same problem is too many social network sites out there, which confuse people and loose them ultimately. Unless Yahoo! 360° release some really useful services and follow Jeremy's advice, they must have a long way to go.

If you are interested in trying Yahoo! 360°, drop me a note or leave comments here. I still have 95 invitations.