Recession recession, can you feel it?
Well, Yahoo certainly do. Cause they are removing their services. One by one, acting all discreet like no one will suspect they are also victim of economy downfall.
Firstly, they removed Yahoo! Auction. One very useful service, where I can find lots of good deal. Though their rules were a bit loose compared to Ebay. A lot of shadow seller or junk advertisement, but I know my way around to make the best out of the service. Always manage to find wide range of cheap product.
Early this year, if I remember correctly, they say that they were going to suspend this service because they want the money saved up to provide better service for other services. I really disappointed with the decision to shutting Yahoo Auction down.
I had to resort to using Ebay which provides very tight security. Ebay's strong point is also it's weakness. Due to onerous procedure and the fact that you had to provide credit card number to them on security reason, this alone scared a lot of customer away. Hence, you don't find range of product like Yahoo Auctions.
Speaking back to Yahoo, I just received their mail about suspension to another 2 services. Yahoo Geocities and 360 degree. Geocities is a free web hosting providing server support to people who wish to build their own website and 360 I reckon its a blog service. I didn't use 360 so it doesn't affect me. But I do use Geocities and althought their pop advisement on my webpage, I am greatful that they had hosted my ever first website in 2003. I got feeling for the website de okie.
This is the first webpage that I builded off some webpage template where I upload and host my gallery. In 2003, you don't have serivce like photobucket to host you picture, now you are uploading like breeze, I used to html code each picture that I uploaded to make sure that they display properly and then link them from thumbnail to actual size, hell lots of work to be done. But I am also proud of what I had acheived then.
http://geocities.com/ngbengchiew
Well, Yahoo certainly do. Cause they are removing their services. One by one, acting all discreet like no one will suspect they are also victim of economy downfall.
Firstly, they removed Yahoo! Auction. One very useful service, where I can find lots of good deal. Though their rules were a bit loose compared to Ebay. A lot of shadow seller or junk advertisement, but I know my way around to make the best out of the service. Always manage to find wide range of cheap product.
Early this year, if I remember correctly, they say that they were going to suspend this service because they want the money saved up to provide better service for other services. I really disappointed with the decision to shutting Yahoo Auction down.
I had to resort to using Ebay which provides very tight security. Ebay's strong point is also it's weakness. Due to onerous procedure and the fact that you had to provide credit card number to them on security reason, this alone scared a lot of customer away. Hence, you don't find range of product like Yahoo Auctions.
Speaking back to Yahoo, I just received their mail about suspension to another 2 services. Yahoo Geocities and 360 degree. Geocities is a free web hosting providing server support to people who wish to build their own website and 360 I reckon its a blog service. I didn't use 360 so it doesn't affect me. But I do use Geocities and althought their pop advisement on my webpage, I am greatful that they had hosted my ever first website in 2003. I got feeling for the website de okie.
This is the first webpage that I builded off some webpage template where I upload and host my gallery. In 2003, you don't have serivce like photobucket to host you picture, now you are uploading like breeze, I used to html code each picture that I uploaded to make sure that they display properly and then link them from thumbnail to actual size, hell lots of work to be done. But I am also proud of what I had acheived then.
http://geocities.com/ngbengchiew
Then followed by first blog I created in 2003 on "Diaryland". This time, I coded the HTML and that's my first webpage that host my blog. Now we have blogger which makes updating blog a breeze. I used embed midi player to play background music, now you can have song streaming on blog just by adding widget. Last time was a tedious process. And then like now you got tagboard or comments box, last time I used to have "guestbook" where people can leave down some comments for you.
Soon this 2 webpage will be gone for good.
Beside yahoo, what are the service that I am septical about. That will be twitter. There are news saying that they had been suffering from a lost and they can prove no way in generating profit from. Soon, their fund will be exhausted then they will be forced to shut down. Even robust service like youtube.com which had been brought over by google had confirmed that they are still not making any profit from the service.
Any service that we are using were hosted by a server, someone is going to pay for the widthband that we are using. So it may fail, service down or even removed without a given reasons. Maybe one day blogger might suffer a same fate? Then what about all the blog post? To me any information you put on a server may or may not disappear. But that is still a possibility.
Meanwhile I need to find somewhere to transfer my old stuff away before they suspend and delete all my stuff online. Hai~
Soon this 2 webpage will be gone for good.
Beside yahoo, what are the service that I am septical about. That will be twitter. There are news saying that they had been suffering from a lost and they can prove no way in generating profit from. Soon, their fund will be exhausted then they will be forced to shut down. Even robust service like youtube.com which had been brought over by google had confirmed that they are still not making any profit from the service.
Any service that we are using were hosted by a server, someone is going to pay for the widthband that we are using. So it may fail, service down or even removed without a given reasons. Maybe one day blogger might suffer a same fate? Then what about all the blog post? To me any information you put on a server may or may not disappear. But that is still a possibility.
Meanwhile I need to find somewhere to transfer my old stuff away before they suspend and delete all my stuff online. Hai~
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