Share Updates from other Sites on your Yahoo! Profile
Yahoo! is delivering another milestone on our promise to become more open and social. Beginning today, you can share your activities from other sites on your Yahoo! Profile and across the Yahoo Network. We’ve added a new feature to Yahoo! Updates that lets you share public activities from more than 20 sites, such as a new review posted on Yelp, a photo uploaded to SmugMug, or a “tweet” on Twitter.
If you’ve used Updates before, you’ll know how easy it is to share your activities from Yahoo! sites like Music, Buzz and TV. Well, now it’s just as easy to share your Updates from other sites. Go to your Yahoo! profile (http://profiles.yahoo.com), click on “Updates” and “Share More.” Then, select a site where you are active, add your username and, in some cases, a profile or RSS URL. Your latest, public activities will automatically be shared via Yahoo! Updates and your connections will begin seeing them on your profile or in Yahoo! Mail (in the future, your Updates will be visible in other places too). Each Update you share will have a summary of your action with a link back to the site where you and your connections can view the original content.
As always, you are in control of who sees your external Updates – your connections, everyone, or only you. For more information on how to manage the sharing of your Updates, see our blog post from last November: http://www.yprofileblog.com/blog/2008/11/21/managing-your-updates/
You don’t have to be a prolific blogger!
Sharing Updates is not just for those among us who spend hours per week writing and publishing blog posts. Use Yahoo! Updates to share all your stuff; interesting web sites you’ve discovered, your favorite videos and TV shows, or even your favorite music. What a great way to keep friends and family up-to-date with what’s going on in your life.
Happy Sharing!
http://profiles.yahoo.com/share_more.php
Yahoo! Profiles Team
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January 16th, 2009 at 10:40 am
build a content module for myyahoo — i’m in!
February 11th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Hi Randy,
Great suggestion! How would you like to see it integrated in?
-Melissa
January 16th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Thanks for integrating SlideShare into Yahoo profiles. I am sure SlideShare users will be happy about this.
January 25th, 2009 at 8:25 am
who the heck uses SlideShare, I don’t even know what the heck it is, I want to use the Member Directory Search
January 16th, 2009 at 11:27 am
[...] at least they’re still trying. You can read more about this on their official blog: Share Updates from other Sites on your Yahoo! Profile | Profiles News Published [...]
January 25th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Maybe they should try to give us our Member Directory search back before they try anything else
January 16th, 2009 at 11:30 am
[...] added to Yahoo Profiles (here’s mine). Lo and behold, SmugMug is one of them! In fact, in Yahoo’s blog post about the new features, SmugMug was the one mentioned for photos. [...]
January 16th, 2009 at 11:38 am
[...] details on how to use the new options, check Yahoo’s blog posting on the [...]
January 16th, 2009 at 11:59 am
[...] profiles just became more interesting. Starting today, you can get updates from popular web services on your Yahoo profile. For example, a review from Yelp might show up, a tweet from Twitter, and we [...]
January 16th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
As I like to keep all my activities seprate from one another this is yet aanother useless addition to a useless service foisted on users who do not want it. The previous posts to mine so obviously Yahoo bots trying to fake a good buzz.
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January 16th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Still want more layers than just “connections”, need the ability to create custom groups of connections, just like on messenger.
February 11th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Hi Floyd,
Great feedback– thanks for sharing. We’re looking into including features like this– any other specifications regarding the layers you’d like to share or see implemented?
-Melissa
January 16th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
This is great, but how do I control who sees what for these third-party feeds? It doesn’t give me the option to choose what group sees what like it does for Yahoo-owned properties.
February 11th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Scott K,
Once you add a third party site, it will appear under the “Manage My Updates” section, where you’ll be able to control which group can see your updates. You’re given the same controls for third party sites as you are for Yahoo! owned sites.
Hope this helps.
-Melissa
January 16th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
[...] Status on steroids: If you’ve set up your Yahoo! Profiles page, you’ve been reaping the benefits of Yahoo!’s new social capabilities. Today, Yahoo! Profiles ventures beyond these purple walls to include updates from more than 20 sites. That means that you can now see when a contact posts a new review on Yelp, uploads to SmugMug, uploads a video to YouTube, blogs on Blogger, rates a song on Pandora, or tweets on Twitter. The world’s getting smaller as we speak. More here. [...]
January 16th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
[...] Sean Montgomery now has the option to share updates across the Yahoo! Profiles network from more than 20 external sites, including such Web 2.0 mainstays as YouTube, Twitter, and Yelp. Read more about it here! [...]
January 17th, 2009 at 10:39 am
yahoo allows you to share lot and lots of comments with friends,families and even people you don’t know.Through yahoo, you get to know a lot of people around you and even people from other countries
January 17th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Let me see if I have this straight:
1. Mash as basically Facebook Lite
2. The profile system if Mash Lite.
3. MyBlogLog does the same thing with out 3 times the services now available on the profile system.
4. Even popular Yahoo products like delicious and Flickr aren’t yet available for this service.
Did I miss anything?
February 18th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Carl,
Delicious is available on the profiles service… check under Updates>Manage my Updates.
-Melissa
January 17th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
This is a good improvement in the Yahoo system.However rather than being destructive of some of our services could you use this Yahoo Profiles as our standard profile across all Yahoo services.Could we use the good old Geocities as our main index page,with Profiles as a page,plus 360 as its blogging page arm,Flickr as its photobox,YahooVideos as its videobox(could we please post our YahooVideos into our 360 etc blogsites?),MyBlogLog could be integrated into it with all YahooIDs being automatically entitled to use its social networking/community functions for all blogsites(the Yahoo Blogsite Directory could use MyBlogLog as an effective user-based research arm),all other Yahoo services ditto for their areas of interest.Just an idea for further improvements.We should talk some more.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Your suggestion make sense, so Yahoo won’t follow it. Yahoo canned Melissa, the person who used to write this blog, back in December.
I wonder who really is in charge of the H.M.S. Ytanic now.
February 11th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Hi Colin,
Great suggestion. We’re working to make sure that all Yahoo! products work together seamlessly, and that your profile on Yahoo! is your core profile whist on Yahoo!. This is just one more step towards a broader project (Open Social), and we’ll be sure to keep you all updated as we continue to make improvements and integrate more products.
Thanks for commenting!
-Melissa
January 18th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Any plans to publish on Yahoo profiles comments made on different websites/blogs? – this could be within Yahoo’s own pages, e.g. sports pages, or elsewhere on the web (similar to facebook connect).
February 11th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Hey Gabriel,
Actually, you can do that now. Just go to Updates>Manage My Updates and then scroll down to “Show All Yahoo! Sources”– from here, you should be able to see a few more of Yahoo!’s properties (including Sports)– and be able to do just what you’re asking about.
-Melissa
January 18th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Just want to say how hellbent yahoo is on taking away features. I posted on here the way to post your online presence indicator on your profile using guestbook. It didn’t allow for the link but it did show the OPL for online or offline. Well, I guess I shouldn’t have posted it on here because I checked my profile today and apparently they’ve put a stop to that. I don’t see the big deal I guess anyways seeing how nobody can search my profile anyway unless they know my name and in that case they are probably already in my messenger list. But that does prove to me that Yahoo! is reading all of these comments we are posting but could care less to do anything about it, they want even respond to us. And it pisses me off because I’m a paid customer. I paid for minutes on messenger so I can easily take telephone calls while on messenger because I have dialup and I used to have to disconnect from the internet, take a call, then get back on. Well, now I hardly even use messenger anymore because it’s pointless, if you are like me you’ve got alot of friends on your list, but none of them get online anymore. They’ve all went to myspace or somewhere else, and you can’t even log into chat now to get friends to add to your list because the bots have taken it over. And now you can’t even search members to add some to the list. It’s all pointless, I’m not gonna just guess names in their stupid new search now to find friends that live lord knows how far away from me. What’s the point. I used to spend 90 percent of my time on yahoo, because I’d be checking my mail, chatting, searching profiles, or playing yahoo games, or whatever, now about 2 percent, my messenger isn’t even up and running now and I used to always have that on when I first booted up my computer. It’s pointless now. The only thing I use yahoo for now is mainly email. Yahoo could have just focused on 360 before screwing with the regular profiles, fix one thing before you screwup another. Hell that’s what 360 is supposed to be used for, social networking. You see it didn’t work what makes you think the yahoo profiles is going to work(talking to you people at Yahoo!). And the reason is not because 360 sucked or was stupid. It’s because you go on there, you search for profiles, and can’t even search by last log-in. You search through pages and pages of profiles that users no longer check or update. You can’t refine your search very well either. Nobody is going to waste their time searching through a bunch of profiles that are outdated. So they stop using the service as well since it is so unusable, and then there goes another profile to the list of pages users will scroll through to find for nothing.
And what do you do with the new profiles, first thing, take away our advanced search. Well, that’s all they needed to do to kill Yahoo!. Real simple, easy and effective. It won’t be that easy to revive Yahoo! because now if they do bring back and add search options, and fix there chat, they are going to have to get the word out to all of the yahoo users that have done move elsewhere because of Yahoo!s stupid thinking.
There is only a few things yahoo can do to fix this problem if they want more users.
1. Bring back a member search, just the way it was, with members online and all of that, and of coarse, make it to where the person decides where their profile is to be searchable or not. And bring back the OPI send IM link to the regular profiles.
2. Add a “last log-in” search option to your 360 profiles. Nobody like I said wants to waste time searching for unused profiles. You do that and it will keep users using their 360. Another thing too, take them to their profile after they sign in instead of the getting started page or whatever page that is that they also see before they sign in. Little things like that irritate people. Keep your open and social concept geared towards 360, as to leave the option open to those who don’t want the whole social networking thing, Instead of forcing it upon people with the new profiles.
3. Chat, we know you spent the time and effort in CAPTCHA, even though it didn’t work we did appreciate the effort. However, it didn’t work, what happened was after they all got kicked out, someone then had to log them back in, and they could no long jump rooms. So the bots didn’t get past CAPTCHA the humans still logged them in. So here is the fix…
Set it up, so that if a user gets ignored by more than 4 or 5 other users, not from any intervention from you by review or anything else, they automatically get kicked from the room and cannot return to the same room within a 24 hour period. Once you do that, that means that the spammer would have to actually sit at his or her computer all day, and would defeat the purpose in even having a bot, because that’s what the bot is for, to let it do all the spamming for you while you are off doing whatever. Everytime the human logs them in they’d shortly get logged back out. And you could also have it set up so that when they get kicked a set amount of times, they get banned from the server.
Now, what that does is free up the room for real people to join, and eliminates all the clutter in the message window and also stops alot of the pms when you first log in to chat that you get from alot of bots. So then you will have more and more real users joining chat because of that. More of an audience to view the ads on your chat screen, people will pay you to put their ads up then, nobody is going to pay you to put up an ad in your chat rooms just for a bunch of bots to see, which is why we all see the ad for Yahoo! Personals if we were to log into chat.
Yahoo!,
If you act quickly and follow those steps you will have users returning your site to use your services. The longer and longer you hold off the worse it will be, you are constantly loosing users. You need to listen to us because we are the ones who knows what is best. We are the ones that use your services so unlike you we aren’t ignorant to the facts. You could still leave the new profiles just like they are if you want to since you all are so damn proud of them, just do what I mentioned to bring the search back and fix the chat. Please listen to us for cryin’ out loud already. I mean damn, have you all thought about being politicians, you all at Yahoo! would make great ones, you keep talking about how things are going to get better, you tell us that you know what is best for us, and you completely ignore our voice.
February 18th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Hi Tommy,
We are reading your comments, listening, and responding. My apologies for the brief hiatus. Currently, there is some sort of an OPI integrated into profiles, but you do have to dig down into the “Contacts” tab up at the top– from here, you can see anyone you’ve connected with who is currently online (they’ll have that familiar goldenrod circle next to their name).
As far as your OPI not working– we made a decision to remove the embedding of certain HTML tags in Guestbook entries. Believe me, this had nothing to do with your personal experience or skill in displaying OPI’s. At this time, HTML links do still work and appear within a Guestbook.
Sorry for your frustration.
-Melissa
February 19th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Duh, exactly, I know how to use the sendIM tag, but why would you not allow it.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
i really like it
January 18th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Where are flickr and delicious?? How is it that Picasa (a google product) was included before flickr (a Yahoo product)??
January 19th, 2009 at 1:10 am
VERY good point
February 18th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
We’re constantly adding more services (including more Y! services)– we know that not everyone only uses Y! products.
-Melissa
January 18th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
It’s good to be open and socialable. A positive step in the right direction Y!
January 19th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Hold the phone Yahoo!, you’ve got a problem with the new profiles. Over the past week I’ve been noticing more and more of them being unable to viewed, as in getting the internet error page that the profiles’ pages can’t be found. So before you guys go crazy with this stuff and possibly make it worse, how about you guys fix the problem?
February 16th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
You are correct, i’ll fix my profile to be before (not an easy task , by deleting and adding back). And it disappeared again within a couple weeks, having to repeat the process. The Profile delete function errros with “oops our servers…” and you actually have to use manage.members.yahoo.com/ to find a link tha works to delete it.. Yahoo Support didnt know of this workaround either and indicates profiles are beta (and i’m assuming from that remark, not expected to work).
I’m guessing there is something in the new profiles that prevents the id form showing the “searchable” options page, the same way as the delete is “oopsing”… and somethign they run periodically is causing this to reset and breaking it again.
I too find it curious they would make Googles “picassa” work before enabling links to Flickr? are they asking people to use picassa first, and flickr second?
February 18th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Beta doesn’t mean that things aren’t supposed to work, it means that things are constantly evolving and growing.
As far as “searchable options page” goes– what do you mean, and are you still getting the “oops” message?
If so, please file a bug with Customer Care, and then as soon as you report the issue to CC, shoot me an email at yprofileblog [at] yahoo [dot] com so I can track the issue.
Thanks!
-Melissa
February 18th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Janus,
Next time this happens, be sure to report it to Customer Care, and shoot me an email with the URL/ID of the profile you’re trying to view (include this info in your CC ticket as well). yprofileblog [at] yahoo [dot] com
Thanks!
-Melissa
January 19th, 2009 at 3:28 am
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January 19th, 2009 at 9:58 am
I guess Melissa got the hook. Can’t say I’m going to miss her, though I’m sure we’ll get the same crap answers that we’ve been getting.
So, Profiles Team, are you ready to cheerlead this mess that no-one asked for, or wants?
Ready to give us the spiel about how much better all of this is supposed to make Yahoo?
Ready to try and convince people that they don’t really want aliases?
Good luck, and welcome to the beginning of the end…
February 18th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Hi Bruiser,
Sorry to disappoint– I’m back.
And, I’m not going to “give you the spiel about how much better all of this is supposed to make Yahoo”– instead, let’s work together and improve it with YOUR contributions.
But first off, to make things clear, as it stands, aliases are not coming back. Sorry!
-Melissa
February 19th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
make it better with YOUR contributions, I think we’ve all tried, you fail to do anything we ask, the main thing, I could care less but alot of people want aliases back, and I along with alot of others want search back, we are tired of telling you what we want and being told to work together to improve and make Yahoo! better when it was fine the way it was and you have ruined it.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Tommy, you are sooo right. Yahoo needs to hire you b/c you know what chatters want. This “open and social” crap is just that—crap. The old profiles were great—simple and easy to use. Yahoo should have just worked on fixing 360…that would have made much more sense to me. Oh well…they will figure it out when there users consist of just themselves…lol And what’s up with this comment section??…lots of Yahoo employees, I am thinking…lol
January 19th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Two very simple questions though I don’t know if anyone has the authority to answer any of this yet.
First, Will it be at all possible to Opt out of all this nonsense.
Second, Is the direction for the profiles being reconsidered so that perhaps we will get the functionality of the old back?
February 18th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Terra,
Opt out in what sense? If you don’t want a “social inbox” you can turn it off by logging into your mailbox, clicking on Options>Mail Options>Enable Connections and deselect this box. Click “Save Changes” up at the top and you’ve turned off that portion.
As far as your own profile goes, I’m not sure what part you want to turn off… forgive me for poking around, but I looked into your profiles/IDs and you haven’t used your profile… at all… so what portions would you want to turn off, if you haven’t even given it a shot?
I know that your biggest concern is the return of aliases, and as I’ve mentioned, aliases are not returning. You can, however, delete your alias and then add it as a new ID all-together. This would help you create a separate profile for each of your aliases– something you can’t currently do with the new profiles service.
If you do this, my suggestion is that you first visit http://manage.members.yahoo.com/YOURALIASID (substitute in YOURALIASID for, well, your alias’ ID) and grab your profile information BEFORE you delete it from your account tab.
To delete an alias, from your profile, click on the “Account Info” link in the top right corner. You’ll be asked to log in. Then, from here, click on the “Add/Delete Aliases” link towards the right. Delete.
Though its tedious, personally, I’d also probably delete and create one at a time, so as to curtail any potential “ID grabbing” (just in case someone else wants your same ID at the EXACT same time, though the likelihood of that happening is small).
Then, feel free to set up your profile to your heart’s content, and your past alias’ content.
Hope this helps.
-Melissa
January 19th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
i have a question also… how do u quit this because i didnt want this by signing up for yahoo’s email?!???
February 18th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Hi njh,
To turn off your “social inbox,” log into your mailbox, clicking on Options>Mail Options>Enable Connections and deselect this box. Click “Save Changes” up at the top and you’ve turned off that portion.
This will not turn off your profile on Yahoo. You can hide your profile on Yahoo (which makes you undiscoverable), by logging into your profile, clicking on Settings and then clicking on the blue hyperlink towards the bottom of the page that reads “Hide My Profile.”
-Melissa
January 19th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Seems as though this progile blog is goiong the way of the 360 blog-no one is answering anything anymore.
I seriously hope Yahoo’s stock hits rock bottom and you all get the boot. I am so disappointed in you guys. For once, LISTEN TO US.
February 18th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Freya,
I’m here, and I’m listening!
-Melissa
January 19th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
i am really sick of all these updates for yahoo profiles. yahoo profiles used to be simple and easy to manage. now with all the new settings and changes to make profiles better in yahoo words. i just don’t even care anymore to update my profile. i guess since yahoo wants the younger core audience and bailed on its current members, yahoo has clearly indicated to me i am not a valued member.
at one time i pushed yahoo as a good network to be on. i no longer do so.
what i really don’t understand is, on one clean sweep,yahoo removed all current profiles.maken there network look bare on the member profiles area. what was the point of destroying yrs of work to build up.?
yahoo will never recover from this. yahoo and melissa can keep putting a good spin on it. to make it not look like crap. but the unhappy people versus the happy people. the unhappy people clearly out number those.
also complaining here is useless. it seems melissa gave up
rip yahoo, you were a good website and network in your peak. the death spin your in now is hard to watch.
i will never understand why you attacked your core member base. i say i don’t understand cause i have not seen any improvements that have been claimed by yahoo staff.
brian
PS THE POSTER NAMED TERRA IS AWESOME! SHE SPEAKS WELL. TERRA SHOULD BE A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE YAHOO MEMBER COMMUNITY.
I ALSO SEE MELISSA NO LONGER POSTS OR IS THE AUTHER OF THE NEW UPDATES POSTED. I GUESS SINCE HER POSTITON AT YAHOO WAS VERY USELESS. TELLING US WHATS GOING ON IS A GOOD THING. SHE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST CUT BACKS.
AND I WOULD LIKE TERRA TO CONTACT ME EMAIL IS HITOLL2 @ YAHOO . COM
January 20th, 2009 at 5:40 am
It appears that the messenger team is only good at creating “updates” that hardly anyone likes (except for the company geeks). They apparently can’t actually fix any of the problems that they have created. Instead of rolling out all these “updates”, why doesn’t the team learn how to fix the issues that have been pointed out by users? Simple little things like “online status” or “member since”. Then they can move on to slightly tougher issues like fixing the “Ignore Chat Invitations” or the intermittent voice issues in messenger and chatrooms. If they work diligently they may even get to the point of actually eliminating most of the bots that plague messenger and chat. This is the point where I see people flocking to use yahoo. Ahhhh, as MLK said, “I have a dream…”
January 20th, 2009 at 5:42 am
Oh yeah, I forgot to point out that all of the things that I listed USED TO WORK BEFORE THEY WERE “UPDATED”.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
This is useless and worthless if I can’t BLOG there.
Yahoo have still not explained in any meaningful manner why they have abandonded 360 and not replaced it with something that we can use in the same way.
The profile system is just empty, nothing, useless, just more ‘noise’ on the net. What is the point in being able ’share’ from other sites when we are crying out to be able to PARTICIPATE in a blogging site??
January 21st, 2009 at 4:40 pm
You all are going to love this who want to be able to search profiles again.
Don’t wait on Yahoo! to give you your search options back. Just do a google domain search. Go to google.com and type this into the search box.
“town gender site:profiles.yahoo.com”
example
“greensboro female site:profiles.yahoo.com”
check it out it works
January 21st, 2009 at 5:24 pm
quotes removed, you can also add the state abbreviation in there too to refine your search better
January 21st, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Just do away with all of this useless cr*p and give us the original profiles back.
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 am
Still hoping there will be different levels of connections for work, family and friends. Is this a possibility?
February 18th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Hi Matt,
This is definitely something we’re exploring. Is there an example that you’ve seen that works best, or would you like it to import your levels of connections over from Messenger?
-Melissa
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:41 am
I’m to the point that I don’t care what they do to this POS site. As long as I can use YMail without it being affected by the rest of this assinine change then I’m ok. I was in the process of moving to GMail, but haven’t completed it yet, waiting to see what happens with YMail.
January 25th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Bruiser,
WHEN you see it in your Ymail, and you will (they are basing all their changes on mail being the center of your Yahoo “experience”), go to Mail Options>General Preferences and then uncheck the box. Be advised this may not take (some users report no luck trying this), but most users I read comments from it did work to get the new “connections” features out of Ymail.
Good luck. So far, gmail is working out great for me. Took some minor getting used to, but works great for me. Can’t foresee coming back, unless gmail really pooches it someday. By then Ymail won’t look like it does now, so I may go to a third party unless Carol can get these Yahoos in line.
January 26th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Thanks Floyd. It actually had shown up on my YMail, and I did turn it off. Luckily it worked for me. I’m just wondering what they’ll F-Up on my mail in the future.
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Can someone please clean up these Pingback things? I really think it reflects poorly when bots are allowed to run rampant on Yahoos own blogs.
Unless these are one of the new things you intend to add, in which case this is really the worst idea ever. none of them have posted anything coherent let alone helpful to the conversation. A bot has no idea how to pick out relevant information. It simply looks for key words. From the looks of it 14 comments were taken off of this blog today since this morning and none of them were the bot comments.
Please fix this problem Yahoo. change course before you crash.
February 18th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Terra,
A pingback is a reference point from another blog letting you (the parent blog) know that they’ve referenced your post in their own post.
I suppose to some degree they’re a form of “bot” but they’re the good kind
-Melissa
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 am
Personally… I think what they’ve done to these profiles is absolute trash. I used to have multiple profiles that could all co-exist under one account. I liked that because I used different profiles for different things. Now, no matter which of my alternate screen names I sign into, they all share the same profile. It’s pointless, it’s dirt, and I really wish they’d just take things back to the way it was before.
Yahoo… Ugh!
February 18th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Chris,
I’m sorry for the frustration. I commented to Terra about this above, but I’ll repost my answer below on how you can resolve this issue.
You can delete your alias and then add it as a new ID all-together. This would create a separate profile for each of your aliases– something you can’t currently do with the new profiles service.
If you do this, my suggestion is that you first visit http://manage.members.yahoo.com/YOURALIASID (substitute in YOURALIASID for, well, your alias’ ID) and grab your profile information BEFORE you delete it from your account tab.
To delete an alias, from your profile, click on the “Account Info” link in the top right corner. You’ll be asked to log in. Then, from here, click on the “Add/Delete Aliases” link towards the right. Delete.
Though its tedious, personally, I’d also probably delete and create one at a time, so as to curtail any potential “ID grabbing” (just in case someone else wants your same ID at the EXACT same time, though the likelihood of that happening is small).
Then, feel free to set up your profile to your heart’s content, and your past alias’ content.
Hope this helps.
-Melissa
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:02 pm
They keep deleting comments, but the Pingback spam is still there.
What a joke.
January 24th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Thanks Tommy, that site: search actually works!
January 26th, 2009 at 4:41 am
Try yaprofilesearch.com also.
January 25th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
The new yahoo profiles still stinks! give us back the member search and how about letting us know who is online ok?
January 26th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Frankly, this is all just useless and it’s ridiculous for yahoo to try and catch up with the big players trying to become a social network this late in the game. Hello? Sorry, but it ain’t gonna happen. Just look at your 360º product, which was another silly attempt to catch up and it still says “beta” 4 years later. And what for? Did serious bloggers leave the real blogging platforms to come blog at 360º? NO. Will people at Facebook, MySpace or wherever come running to play social network with your new idea of a yahoo profile? Oh, do you want me to come here 4 years from now and tell you or can you guess the answer to that? Please…
You should stick to your uniqueness, the things that only you can offer, which is, by the way, what users liked, instead of trying to be a late player wannabe and destroy your user base. And what did users like, you might ask? Up to six different profiles that could be used on different yahoo groups, messenger and the members directory. That was unique, that kept your users happy and coming back, but you just destroyed that.
Now, what do we see instead of profiles? “The user you are searching for either does not exist, or has chosen to keep their profile private.” That’s what. Because everyone is choosing to keep this new profile private, because it’s useless and doesn’t go along with the other yahoo products that people still use — namely, groups, member directory and messenger.
You’re just giving your users more reason to switch to google groups and google talk.
Oh and, by the way, what do you plan to do with your 360º still in beta, anyway? Are you going to discontinue that without notice, too? Might be a good idea since your new profile has also DISABLED all the profile URLs that used to redirect to a 360º page.
Way to go, yahoo. Just… Way to go.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
The only thing Yahoo ever had going was chat. Chatrooms and instant messaging. That’s what Yahoo could offer on the internet in a way that no other service could live up to.
So WHY did this company so royally screw that one thing over? Without chat Yahoo is NOTHING. Yet they have spent the last 4-5 years totally destroying this service completely. And now Yahoo is a dead duck.
Hundreds of users complained and warned Yahoo about this years ago, and the company never listened. Like they don’t listen now.
Yahoo brought it’s ruin upon itself. Pathetic, sad and deserved.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Sad, but true! The one thing that brought me to Yahoo was Chat and Instant Messaging. MSN had closed their chatrooms, so I switched. Now its no longer fun to go into chat, because the bots have taken over.
There was a time when I used to get so excited when a new Messenger came out with new features that made MSN look like crap. Now, I use MSN Messenger more and more because Yahoo’s messenger is so unstable and chat rooms are no longer filled with friends.
Another thing they are slowly destroying is 360. I loved it the way it was. Unique and geared for mature adults. I haven’t given up the hope that something will be done about 360..as for chat and messenger? I figure its dying out with the advent of YMail and the incorporation of chat into my email.
By the way, I don’t like the new Profiles, but realize all the complaining in the world isn’t going to change a thing about them.
I don’t like guest comments, I want that on my blog!!! I don’t like the connections to other people, I want that on my Messenger!! I don’t like the updates, who cares what someone else has done to their profile? I want to be able to see a person’s profile in order to determine if I would like to chat and get to know them better, or if the person is a total idiot that I don’t want to bother. The way it is now, I can only assume they are keeping it private to hide a part of themselves.
Wake up Yahoo…the clock is ticking….and time is running out…
January 28th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Did the new team get laid off now too? Been two weeks, and not a peep. Could only hope that they’re busy trying to figure a way back to where they were before the changes. Aliases anyone????
Ok, I don’t believe any of it either.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Bruiser,
Aliases are not returning at this time.
Thanks.
-Melissa
January 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
i think its cool
January 28th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
how do u change the background of yahoo profile?
February 18th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Targen,
At this time, this is not an option, but the team is considering more options for customization.
-Melissa
January 28th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
This is a great new feature. I hope that if more options are added, you will let us know in this blog. One improvement regarding the existing options that I suggest, is the ability to add multiple blogs and feeds. Some people have more than one blog. Am I correct in thinking it isn’t possible to add Delicious bookmarks to your Yahoo! profile? I couldn’t find the option last time I checked.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Senior,
It is possible to add Delicious– Updates>More Updates.
Others have echoed the sentiment on adding multiple blogs, and this has been passed on. Thanks for commenting!
-Melissa
January 28th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Could an official from Yahoo PLEASE address the loss of the member search?!?
February 18th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Terencio,
We are currently exploring new ways to help users connect with each other, and recognize that many users would like to see member search return.
Thanks for your comment, it’s been passed on to the team.
-Melissa
January 29th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I was referred to this blog by tech support. I have noticed in the past week or so that my aliases no longer having a profile… and if you follow the instructions under settings you don’t see your alias name to be checked off to view even if you want it to include your regular profile and pic, I was told by yahoo tech support on January 25th the following:
“Please be assured that we are aware of this problem and are working to
fix it. Our new profile on Yahoo! product is currently in BETA mode and
we’re fixing some of the quirks associated with our launch. We have identified the cause of your error and we’re working hard to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we appreciate your patience while we correct this bug.
For updates on this issue, please visit our Product Blog at: http://www.yprofileblog.com/”
Maybe I’m impatient but other than reading complaints about the new profiles ( I’ve noticed many profiles that disappeared just like mine) – I have been checking and haven’t noticed any official new yahoo blogs here addressing the issue at all or even admitting it is a problem as in the email I received. Can someone enlighten me or am I among the confused?
January 29th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Because just about everytime they post something here they get slammed because it’s something most of the users don’t give a crap about.
Again, I hope they’re back to re-thinking this whole fiasco and working on a way to restore the previous version of Profiles along with Aliases.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
jabadoobie,
Aliases are no longer supported by the new profiles. I commented to Terra and Chris regarding a workaround above, but I’ll repost my answer below on how you can create separate ID’s for your past aliases, using the same ID’s that you previously used.
You can delete your alias and then add it as a new ID all-together. This would create a separate profile for each of your aliases– something you can’t currently do with the new profiles service.
If you do this, my suggestion is that you first visit http://manage.members.yahoo.com/YOURALIASID (substitute in YOURALIASID for, well, your alias’ ID) and grab your profile information BEFORE you delete it from your account tab.
To delete an alias, from your profile, click on the “Account Info” link in the top right corner. You’ll be asked to log in. Then, from here, click on the “Add/Delete Aliases” link towards the right. Delete.
Though its tedious, personally, I’d also probably delete and create one at a time, so as to curtail any potential “ID grabbing” (just in case someone else wants your same ID at the EXACT same time, though the likelihood of that happening is small).
Then, feel free to set up your profile to your heart’s content, and your past alias’ content.
Hope this helps.
-Melissa
January 31st, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Your profile was deactivated by an administrator. What gives, yahoo. I have been receiving this message on two of my accounts ever since this has launched. Word of advice, before you add anymore to the new profiles…fix the deactivation on profiles. That should be your top priority right now so people can use their profile. If you don’t plan on fixing it soon, then give us back the old format. least for the users who can’t edit or access their profile.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Hearts,
I’ve emailed you at both email addresses you’ve used to comment, here on the blog– I’d be happy to help you resolve your issue. Please feel free to reach out to me should you have an issue: yprofileblog [at] yahoo [dot] com
Thanks!
-Melissa
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I’m turned off that Yahoo decided to just yank the old profiles. I used that service and wanted to keep my old profile. The strategy should have been to allow us to migrate to the new as we wanted to. I don’t like being forced into something and will stop using the service as a result. Google has been doing interesting things. I think it’s time to switch.
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:34 am
how do u change the background of yahoo profile?
February 4th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
You can’t, you can add music to it though, http://profiles.yahoo.com/chtwright check it out. Which is kinda dumb though that you can add widgets to your guestbook, that means that anyone can add crap to your website unless you set it to where nobody can view your guestbook, but then you can’t have them hear your music or see whatever other kinda widget you may have, which is why they need to allow you to add stuff like that to your profile, but not in the guestbook section, and take the ability away from the guestbook because most people don’t want other people putting a bunch of widgets on their profile
February 16th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Why do I want to keep Yahoo profiles if all I am doing with them is putting crap on them from OTHER sites? I’d rather go to the other sites. If I didn’t use Yahoo email (and even Gmail is getting more and mroe of my business these days), I wouldn’t be here. Chat is all bots, messenger is too easily hacked, 360 is a mess, email even has extra crap I don’t’ need. And those invite suggestions on my profile are a major JOKE. If I wanted to add people, I’d add them on my 360…at lest there I can look at their blogs and see if I WANT to add them or not.
February 17th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
well for starters you should learn how to spell then work on invatations
February 25th, 2009 at 3:35 am
Why dont you add My Opera, Flirck and … may be Yahoo Plus?
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Melissa,
Is there a bug in the Share Updates feature? I have added Pandora as an update to be shared, enabled sharing of updates, set Pandora to be shared by anyone then used Pandora by adding seed bands, rating music and listening for over an hour. Not a single thing showed up in my update module. What gives?
Since Y! presently has no functional social networking capabilty, will any such sites soon be added to the the list for sharing? MySpace, Facebook, or even Multiply?
May 15th, 2009 at 4:38 am
It took Blogspot, Facebook 1/2 second to fetch my Twitter status and took Yahoo 1/2 day to do so.
May 15th, 2009 at 4:39 am
Also, I tried to click on “Show All Yahoo! Sources” just to pick up some of them. And now the Updates Settings page has a long list of all Yahoo! Services.
Oh…………………….
July 19th, 2009 at 4:58 am
Where’s the RSS feed? Thx.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I THINK IT IS A BIG MESS. It will not let me opt out of the whole mess, it is listing some horrible person’s choices of music and blogs )pure trash) as mine. I want to sue!