Yahoo Mash!

First of all, I wish Multiply would have a "Blast" feature like Yahoo 360. Hopefully, they are working on something like it so that I wouldn't have to post this quick announcement in a blog.

Anyhoo, I have access to Yahoo Mash, which many of you probably know is still in its Beta format and people may join by invitation only. If you are interested in checking it out, give me a holler, and I will send you an invitation. In my opinion, it is still in its baby stage right now. There are several modules one can play around with, but my first impression in the first 10 minutes or so of looking around is that it still has quite a ways to go before it is fully ready to be competitive in the social network market. I hope they don't try to mirror Facebook...

For now, I plan to blog here at Multiply because it at least allows me a space to pontificate. Facebook fails miserably in this department - it is fun enough, but it seems very "schizophrenic" with its use of 3rd party applications that encourage friends to send random items as gifts, smiles, comments, but nothing of substance like creating a blog. It lets you peep in on your neighbors, so to speak. MySpace, on the other hand, offers blogging capabilities, but it's a total meat market and my profile has gotten phished, so I step cautiously around MySpace.

Hopefully, within this new year, I will find a permanent home somewhere for my blogs. Too bad they have to eventually shut down 360. That was a fun place to play!