How to: hide your age in your profile
As a result of your feedback, we’re happy to announce that beginning today, your age will default to “hidden” while in the 35-day waiting period. Once your 35-day waiting period has passed you will have the option of hiding your age within your profile. To hide your age, simply log into your profile and click [...]
Keeping up-to-date with the new homepage
I’m sure it’s happened to you before: you’re reading the homepage of Yahoo! and come across a great story, link, or have an epiphany that you’d love to share with the people you know. In the past, you had to log into your email and send a message to your friends and family, or, go [...]
Questions and answers about the age verification process
UPDATE 7/28/09: Based largely off of the community’s response to this feature, we will be releasing a “patch” for this issue. This patch, which will be available on or around August 18th, 2009, will hide your age in your profile during the 35-day verification period.
Prior to August 17th, if you wish to have your [...]
Editing your age in your profile
UPDATE 7/28/09: Based largely off of the community’s response to this feature, we will be releasing a “patch” for this issue. This patch, which will be available on or around August 18th, 2009, will hide your age in your profile during the 35-day verification period.
Prior to August 17th, if you wish to have your [...]
Yahoo! 360 has been shut down
Today, Yahoo! 360 officially shut down.
Thank you to all of you who used the service over the years– we appreciate your feedback, loyalty, and dedication to the site, and hope you’ll work with us to improve your profile on Yahoo!.
If you did not retrieve your profile information or content from Yahoo! 360 (with the exception [...]
It’s now easier to share more with your connections!
The next time you check out your profile on Yahoo!, you might notice that we’ve added a new “Share More” module within your profile. This module (which is just like the “Share More” page) allows you to enter your username into the wizard and automatically scans the net for matching identities on other popular sites [...]
Fixes and Features
Since we announced the closure of Yahoo! 360, some of you have had a few questions, and, some of you have run into a few bugs. Here’s a quick update on some of the issues.
Fixes
When I try to post blog entries on my profile I see weird characters or “?” marks throughout the post.
We’ve [...]
How to: blog on your new profile
Based on the feedback we received from users like you we recently introduced a new blogging module into your profile on Yahoo!.
By now, some of you may have taken the time to explore this new feature, but if you haven’t here’s a quick walk-through of the new blogging tool’s features.
Getting started
Once you’ve set up your [...]
Yahoo! 360 to Shut Down
- Posted May 29th, 2009 at 9:14 am by Melissa
- Categories: Uncategorized
Over the past two years there has been a lot of discussion about the closure of Yahoo! 360° and the transition to our new profiles experience that we’ve had in the works. Today, we’re able to firmly say that on July 13, 2009 Yahoo! 360° will be closing down and you’ll be asked to move [...]
Updates and Yahoo! Groups
Since the launch of profiles in October 2008, we’ve been gradually introducing new properties to the world of Updates. Last night, this feature was introduced into the Yahoo! Groups family, enabling you to share Photo updates into your Updates feed on http://profiles.yahoo.com. (In the future, Groups Updates will also include Group Messages, but this feature [...]
