In the Yahoo! Pulse service, formerly known as Yahoo! Profiles, the service won’t be going away completely but the blogs, photos and guestbook apps within it will be.
It’s most likely true that most of you don’t use Pulse (and maybe even never heard of it), but the way Y! is handling this is far better than the way they closed GeoCities.
The way Y! discontinued GeoCities was handled so wrong that it’s almost beyond belief. In a nutshell, what happened is that they announced it was going away, offered absolutely no simple way for end users to download their content, and *poof*, gone. That’s it. Buh-bye. It was the equivalent of flipping the bird to anyone who ever used the GeoCities service. Yahoo! received a mountain of complaints for this.
With Pulse however it’s a different story. Yahoo! has smartly decided to leave the service open for a month, and offer the ability to download everything you posted to your Pulse blog in a nice, simple ZIP. When you login with your Yahoo! account and go to pulse.yahoo.com, you’ll see this:
Yahoo! got it right this time. Instead of giving the heave-ho and figuratively saying "screw you, it’s going away", you can get the content you posted easily.
This is progress, make no mistake about it. Why? Because it shows Y! as a company is actually giving a crap about its users whereas they didn’t at all before.
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The ability to use Yahoo! Mail via POP for free has been available for years. http://webmail.mozdev.org/
The only reason I even have a yahoo account these day is because I still have friends that only use Yahoo Messenger. I don’t even use my yahoo email anymore. Since I got my HTC Hero, for the most part I only use Gmail.