{"id":1340,"date":"2007-09-17T15:48:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-17T15:48:40","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T13:48:40","slug":"yahoo-mash-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/1340-yahoo-mash-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Mash -Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Yahoo social networking website, hosted at <a href=\"http:\/\/mash.yahoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mash.yahoo.com\/<\/a>, is said to be similar in functionality to Facebook but with the added bonus of allowing members to edit other member&rsquo;s profiles.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind this new twist is that more experienced members can assist their &lsquo;newly-joined&rsquo; friends to create &quot;starter profiles&quot; &ndash; something which may help them to get on their feet faster.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Mash developer Will Aldrich says &ldquo;You can make starter profiles for your friends. Think: &lsquo;first round&rsquo;s on me.&rsquo; You can leave your profile open to contributions by trusted friends. You can customize your &#8211; or your friend&rsquo;s &#8211; profile with modules from a growing gallery of apps.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>There may however be privacy concerns when using such a system, but Aldrich points out that there is little to fear: &ldquo;Of course, there are extensive privacy controls in Mash and you set the boundaries that you&rsquo;re comfortable with.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to Techcrunch, &ldquo;Mash also has something called Pulse, which is very similar to Facebook&rsquo;s news feed. The Pulse page shows &ldquo;updates from your friends&rdquo; that are basically Twitter-like messages reporting all of your friends&rsquo; activity on Mash.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Currently the new Yahoo social networking service is open by invitation only &ndash; similar to the early days of GMail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo is taking aim at Facebook and MySpace with its about-to-be-launched social networking site Yahoo! Mash \u00e2\u20ac\u201c described as a mixture between Facebook and WiKipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}