Hi Everyone,

Today we announced that we will shut down Yahoo! Mash on September 29th, 2008. Your Yahoo! 360 profile will not be affected by the shut-down of Mash. We will provide plenty of advance notice before we transition Yahoo! 360. Please continue to read the blog for future updates on the transition.

Matt Warburton
Yahoo! Community Manager

Hi Everyone,

The site maintenance is now complete. All accounts that were taken offline have now been restored. Thank you for your patience.

Matt Warburton
Yahoo! Community Manager

Hi Everyone,

While we’re hard at work on Yahoo!’s new profile, we want to make sure that the vibrant community here on 360 continues to thrive.

In order to accommodate growing blog usage, we need to add capacity! This Thursday June 19 at 10am PT, we will be taking roughly 20% of 360 accounts temporarily offline for up to 7 hours (i.e. from 10am to 5pm PT) so we can add more machines to better handle the load of everyone’s blog posts and comments. We chose that date and time because it’s one of the slower times on the product.

All 360 blog accounts that were temporarily taken offline, will be fully recovered.

Thanks in advance for your patience and understanding on Thursday, as we try to make everyone’s blog experience a bit faster.

Matt Warburton
Yahoo! Community Manager

Hi Everyone,

Here’s the latest news on the transition from your 360 page to your new profile on Yahoo!: It will be taking place sometime in the second half of 2008. We don’t have specifics on the date to share just yet, but you’ll be among the first to know. For now just keep this in mind: 2^nd half ’08.

I know you get a lot out of 360, and that there’s a good chance you’ve used it to deepen friendships and extend connections near and far. So, I completely understand that you might not exactly be “chomping at the bit” for the shift to the new system (i.e., that you might be dreading it on some level).

Well let me first say that it’s truly Yahoo!’s honor to offer a service you rely on to fulfill those requirements—keeping your friendships vibrant and even building new connections. Yahoo!’s promise to you is we absolutely won’t let that drop!

In fact, our upcoming (currently occurring) shift is based on these same core principles, but expands them across the entire Yahoo! network—so you can share your interests and activity with your community, and discover new content and experiences from your trusted friends. The approach gets a good description in the following articles and blog posts:

Yahoo rewiring itself from the inside out

For example, your Profile will be integrated into the new Yahoo! Mail welcome page which will surface messages from the people who matter to you most. Additionally, you will see Updates from your important connections helping you to discover new content and activities in real-time.

As part of Yahoo!’s initiative to open-up, users will be able to add applications from Yahoo and third parties on their Profile page and various Yahoo sites and pages, including the home page of Yahoo.

Finally, let’s get down to the nuts and bolts of what this means to you and your 360 account. We’ll migrate your profile photo, your nickname, your friends lists, blog posts and blog comments.

We will continue to provide updates on the transition as we have more information.

Matt Warburton
Yahoo! Community Manager