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Yahoo!’s GeoCities to Close Forever

Dean — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:39:14 +0000

Geocities was created fifteen years ago when the internet was barely getting onto its feet. People went mad using basic HTML creating what are now viewed as utterly horrific websites such as this one. Now, after fifteen years of offering free hosting services Yahoo! have finally decided that it is time to close it down once and for all.

October 26^th will be the day all geocities websites will be deleted from the servers. Yahoo! sent out an e-mail advising all geocities members to back up all geocities files onto their computer or move their website to another hosting facility.

“We know your files are important to you, and we want to make moving to Web Hosting as easy and affordable as we can. For a limited time, you can move your files automatically, take advantage of terrific features like a personalized domain name and email, even redirect your GeoCities web address to your new site — all for only $4.99 a month for a full year.” Read an e-mail sent out to all GeoCities subscribers today.

In true business fashion, Yahoo! are using this closure to pedal their own hosting services from $4.99 per month for small businesses and personal users.

It seems like the last remaining bits of the old internet are dying away. Personally, I see it as a good and bad thing. Bad because I’ll have to recover my website and transfer it elsewhere but good because the internet is prevailing even during a recession.

Yahoo Closes RSS Ads, But This Is Only Small Part of Big Change Coming

Steven Finch — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:08:46 +0000

It has been reported by the Silicon Alley Insider that Yahoo is closing their RSS Advertising solution.

Not much word on why — a Yahoo spokeswoman provided this statement to SAI:

Yahoo! is closing its Ads in RSS effective February 2, 2009. The beta program, which enabled publishers to place contextually relevant ads on their own site, was available to a targeted group of small online publishers. We have ended this beta program to focus on other more broadly used ad products for our publishing partners such as Sponsored Search and Content Match.

Silicon Alley isnt really sure why Yahoo is making this move. However, here at Crenk we know that this is just a smaller part of the big move coming from Yahoo. I have heard from inside the company that they are going to be closing a lot of departments within their contextual advertising network. Major changes will be coming with the next three months.

Yahoo Podcast Soon To Be No More!

Steven Finch — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:09:52 +0000

Latest news around the blog-o-shere is that Yahoo Podcast is no longer. It has already been reported by RWW, Techcrunch and CenterNetworks.

Yahoo Podcast is a basic podcasting search, directory and listening service, which launched back in October 2005.

Marshall over at RWW notes, “Some would argue that podcasting hasn’t caught on like it was expected to, that it’s been dominated by existing media giants and beaten as a medium by the rise of video. I still love me a good episode from ITConversations, Briefings Direct or our own new show Read/WriteTalk when I’m walking the dog – but Yahoo! users looking for podcasts will soon have to look elsewhere.”

As mentioned by Techcrunch there are a few other podcast directories struggling at present. For example Odeo, which was acquired from investors, then sold, then acquired another directory called FireAnt.

However, the quote of the day for Yahoo is from Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks when he stated that he didnt argee with Marshall (RWW) and the real reason the Yahoo Podcasts are close is that the “The Damn Thing Never Worked!“