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- str3ama, on 10/11/2007, -0/+27Yahoo Answers beats out any of its competing answer services, you can literally outsource anything to a group of people who will probably steer you to the wrong answer 90% of the time.
- Leach, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25Will there be bruising, trampling, and the odd stabbing like in a real mosh?
- Claw787, on 10/11/2007, -3/+25Yahoo = Majority of female users
More female users = More male signups
More male signups = rapid increase of user base
large user base = Web 2.0 success - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -8/+26Someone still uses Yahoo?
Maybe they should spend less time dicking around with ***** like this and fix some of the things they already offer, like Groups. - Uberperson, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17*Sigh* why do people think we need more social networks....
- ThatEvilGuy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14http://fark.pbwiki.com/f/Mosh-Girl-Orginial.jpg
They should make her their spokesperson. - Gatesophile, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8A few of my friends absolutely flat-out refuse to use anything other than Yahoo. I try to educate them in "life beyond Yahoo", but so far it hasn't worked.
- xTRUMANx, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10Dumbass
- dtd00d, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7For a second there I didn't know where you were going and I thought you were going to bring up the "women are evil" proof...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_joke#Mock_mathematical_reasoning - gmprunner, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Interesting development, and one that I'd like to see thrive but I feel is destined for doom.
- maffiou, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Yes but mosh (moche) means "ugly" in French, not exactly a selling point for mosh female users...
- s1mph0ny, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5As yahoo regularly stamps out free speech around the word, I must disagree. It's nice when just once, in just one market someone fails while being evil.
- Grimdotdotdot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5A stupid name didn't exactly hurt the Wii, did it?
- estvir, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8You do realise not all social websites are about trying to 'get dates' and the irony of you calling someone a loser while posting on Digg is astounding.
- richardiscool, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5What will they call it, though?
Some catchy name like "Orkut", I bet! - MISDIREK7ED, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Well at least Yahoo didn't charge for their answer services like Google did... is it still considered outsourcing if it is free?
- aboyd, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6What do you think is broken about groups? I use it all the time, and it seems to function as I expect. Educate me.
- s1mph0ny, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7What's wrong with groups? Out of control spam, the fact that they already reworked it, dropping many "clubs". Reckless censorship, etc.
- almondfilter3, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Ha, I love the name choice. Its exactly what one would conjure up when thinking how a big company would try and duplicate the "hot thing" and then name it. "Lets name it 'Mosh,' like when the young kids mosh in the hard rock and metal concerts, it'll really strike a nerve with the young core demographic."
- johnwc723, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Good luck yahoo.... next google is going to get in the game!
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -2/+6And they don't think this will fail because...?
- RCcola159, on 10/11/2007, -6/+9Or you could stop using stereotypes and get off of your high-and-mighty yahoo throne for a second and see that maybe people like the simplicity google offers.
- MISDIREK7ED, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Wait... who even considers Yahoo to be Web 2.0?
- aliguana, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3the point of social networks is people go there because thats where all their friends go. Feature-sets and brand-names are almost irrelevant. You've got MySpace, Facebook, Bebo : like it or not thats where 90% of SN users go. Its not that people wouldn't welcome the change - hell, anything is preferable to MySpace's system. But, if someone signs up to this and they find after two weeks none of their friends have signed up, they're going to give up and go back to MySpace. How are Yahoo going to draw people in en-masse? Personally, rather than re-invent the wheel, I think Yahoo would be better off expanding on the social aspect of Flickr - making your profile page on Flickr more like a "myspace"ish profile page, tying it into the other Yahoo Services, such as calendar, addressbook, music etc People already use the Flickr system, they're familiar with it, all their friends and family are on it - golden opportunity there. But, do that, and people will start LEAVING Flickr en-mass, so they can't win.
- agnoster, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yeah, but it's only, like, over 400 million people. So, like, whatever man. It's only one of the most visited sites in the world.
(Loves how good fanboys are at ignoring reality.) - andr3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Instead of facebook's "poke" can I have "kick-in-the-teeth"?
- tehWyman, on 08/19/2009, -0/+2Hello Orkut.
- Gatesophile, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Flickr was bought by Yahoo, so really I wouldn't give Yahoo much credit on that... and I think most diggers know that Yahoo owns Flickr...
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6Yahoo has more traffic than google = FACT
Check Alexa
the public can care less about Yahoo Google flame wars
Most Diggers dont even know Yahoo owns Flickr
otherwise you would'nt say the dumb shyt you did - queraxus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3You're a long way from home, yuppie.
- abandonedhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I wouldn't say it was stupid per se, but does the name actually mean anything?
- ColonelJessup, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Moshing is lame. Just a bunch of angry, shirtless, smelly, fat boys bouncing off one another. Kinda gay.
- stockjones, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1To be honest, I'm more impressed by some of the stuff Yahoo has done with their website including YUI. Far more than a lot of the bland and not all that impressive Google api stuff. I think Google is just the cool kid on the block until something new and non-corporate comes along.
- traphik, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3..Pit
- mrsmegz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Except Google will use its mass of liquid cash to just buy the most successful one on the block and make it their own. If they start their own, It will be in Google Beta until Web 3.0 rolls along.
- canadiense, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1240 million email accounts ... their finance interface is still the best in the business ... music.yahoo.com is where I get all my music ... love the company, love their style, no issues with anything they do.
- crushfan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3... they think people LOVE to sign up yet another social network and re-unite their friend lists -- this is kind of a way to memorize all of your friends' contact info, I guess.
- 80hd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Hahaha Yahoo answers is such a joke.
"Hey guys Is there a point to life?"
"Well my dads friend's ex wife got a chain mail with a dancing hamster in it that says yes. As long as you forward this to 9 people in the next hour" - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1MSDN blogs and MS developers community doen't count for social networking, you moron.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11) They got 300M+ users. I dont' think that will be a problem for them to make existing users signup the new product.
2) You mean, you want them to mess up flickr too... ? - SLH06, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Mosh is the name of the Jacksonville museum.
- abandonedhero, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I'm not a big fan of Alexa as it is. As far as my computers go, I removed the piece of crap from my machine. I'm sure others have done the same - so the reliability of skewed data lies in question. The people who don't like Alexa typically are the more savvy users, and that goes to reinforce the fact that Alexa data gathered for Yahoo is further evidence that Yahoo users aren't the savvy ones.
- noctu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2lets see they canceled comments on news reports, their chat rooms barely work, their online payment system flopped and their 360 is in Limbo so moosh must be the sound of a toilet flushing.
- abandonedhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Please explain to me where Microsoft came in to this whole story. We already know Facebook and MySpace have it made, but I don't think that Microsoft is really putting anything into this - for obvious reasons. Unlike Yahoo, Microsoft usually figures out what went wrong the first time and either avoids it or fixes it.
- williamdyer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yahoo is very hip and up-to-date. Instead of some Hollywood dinosaur running the place, who might have called it a SOCK HOP, they are now up to, ohhh, NINETEEN ***** EIGHTY SIX which is the last year I heard of anyone jumping in a MOSH pit. WTF Did they get the dude with a Zune tattoo to pick the name????!!!!!
- 80hd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2BAHAHAHAHA
Sorry Yahoo you don't invite yourself into popularity like that. - abandonedhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I think you meant irrelevant. It's not like Yahoo is God - but I do have to say, Optimus Prime very well could be God.
- jongos, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Screw Yahoo. They have no idea of separation of user accounts. If your Yahoo! Answers account or your Flickr Accounts are suspended ALL your Yahoo accounts will also be suspended, including domains you have through their domains service. It's counter productive to building social networks.
- richardiscool, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yahoo != Microsoft. MS have had a social network for years anyway.
- 80hd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1There are so many social networks.....Maybe one day Myspace will friend Mosh.
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