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Here's a screen-shot with lots of the featues of Yahoo! 360. I've added a lot of notes to the picture. My 360 profile URL is http://360.yahoo.com/bushwald.

Overall, I kind of like the ideas that are here, but I don't like the closed nature of it. If everything was just hooked up to public APIs so that the 'net could build on this, I'd probably like it a lot.

That is, what I'd like see Y! 360 do is become a sort of "collab database" platform in the same way that flickr is the collab-db for my photos, delicios is the collab-db for my bookmarks, etc. As Amazon, eBay, flickr, delicious, and all the collab-bubble sites have shown, opening up your system as a platform is a great boon for users. Keeping it closed (like LinkedIn.com) just sucks.