by Cathleen Moore

Yahoo Blogs?

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Aug 25, 20031 min

As linked to on Slashdot, blogger Sven Latham writes in his Yet Another Blog that Yahoo may be considering launching blogs as part of its offerings, given that the URLs https://blogs.yahoo.com and https://blog.yahoo.com redirect to the company’s Yahoo Groups page. Also, he notes that Yahoo Korea appears to have a blog page.

If Yahoo does jump into the blog waters, they will join AOL, which launched weblog services with its AOL 9.0.

So far Weblogs have flourished without the muscle of media giants like AOL and Yahoo. The impact of AOL’s and possibly Yahoo’s entrance into the blog space has yet to be seen, but it is interesting to see them take note of the technology. When I spoke with AOL at the time of the 9.0 launch, the spokesperson said AOL viewed blogs as an important element of “community.”