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Re: Yahoo shutters GeoCities, my eyeballs are grateful

homepage — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:20:06 -0000

They should have adapted the brand with the times... there is a $100+ million plus acquisition down the tubes.

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Shame on Yahoo! — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:54:21 -0000

Yahoo! go to Hell!!!!

Re: Yahoo shutters GeoCities, my eyeballs are grateful

Anthony Ha — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:44:00 -0000

Yes, I noted that in the article. the chart lists them separate because that's how comScore tracked them.

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Douche — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:47:20 -0000

Didn't synthasite replace their name with yola. You have them listed as separate in your chart.

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powen — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:02:30 -0000

I suppose my eyeballs are grateful too that GeoCities is bringing the era of gaudy animated GIFs (except those on Myspace) to an end.

What's kind of sad though about the situation is that there really is a lot of information that devoted and passionate people put on GeoCities pages that'll be lost now. In most of the comments and threads about this I find people like Bruno who refer to reference pages that just have never made the leap to another webhost -- probably because the vast majority today are blog-centric which isn't usually the best format for that kind of site.

I can only concur with the Weebly & Yola execs about the advantages of the freemium model, charging for additional services and domain names. That's what Jimdo's been doing since we launched two years ago.

For the few GeoCities users who may happen across this post, Jimdo's working on a rescue mission to help you migrate your sites and a 10% discount if you decide to buy our Pro package. Details here: http://jimdo.com/geocities

Re: Yahoo shutters GeoCities, my eyeballs are grateful

Anthony Ha — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:49:14 -0000

Sometimes I find music I like on MySpace.

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Anthony Ha — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:48:45 -0000

Bloggers.

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Bill Masterson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:47:39 -0000

geocites at one time was happening...yahoo let it wither and die a cruel death...geocities should have become myspace/wordpress and if it was independent it may have beceome much more valuable company

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PeterA650 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:30:24 -0000

ROFLMAO!!!! Spot on!!!!

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asdf — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:16:50 -0000

Your analysis is dead-on. GeoCities was the Internet's old septic tank, and MySpace has replaced it.

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Brainless Centrist — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:10:30 -0000

Awesome eyeball photo for the "eyeball-scarring" article Anthony. But what religious sect wears these outfits? http://www.anthony-ha.com/