Yahoo! App and 360 Importer
We’ve got two Yahoo! related news items today.
The first is that we’ve launched a Yahoo! 360 importer (listed in your admin screens under Tools → Import) to make migration from 360 to WordPress.com super easy. Just upload the Yahoo! 360 export ZIP file, and we’ll do the rest. Yahoo! will be shutting down their 360 service soon, so if you have any friends over there feel free to give them a little help and encouragement to head over to WordPress.com 🙂
Second is the release of our WordPress.com QuickPress Yahoo! Application. You can post posts and read and moderate your most recent comments straight from My Yahoo!. (Note to any self-hosted WordPress.org folks out there: the app currently only works on WordPress.com. We’re working on making it .com/.org universal.)
Thanks to Yahoo! for their help with their Yahoo! Application Platform, and thanks to all of you for the best blogs on the intertubes.
If you need help with either of these new toys (or anything else), please contact our support team.
- June 5, 2009
- Import, New Features, WordPress.com
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Don’t use it… but good to know! 🙂
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wow! so I can now post from my yahoo from my iPhone?
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The iPhone app is for your WordPress blog. To learn more, visit http://iphone.wordpress.org
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Interesting stuff!
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Awesome! WordPress is just better and better every second eh?!
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Thank You very much for making it so easy to import Yahoo 360 blogs. I ported mine over today and it worked flawlessly.
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I think that’s great, although I’m still having trouble posting to my blog from my yahoo mail. I know it’s still new and i should be a little patient, but i’m greedy. I want more more more. I’m still hungry for the hopeful intergration between org and MU.
I’m a wordpress groupie, but just work the kinks out between yahoo and posting and i’ll be almost a little happier.
hey, i’m a woman, don’t expect complete happiness. i gotta keep you on your toes. LoL.
Thanks for the heads up on this. i love knowing you guys are making our WP lives a little easier. Keep up the good work!
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Please contact Support about specific issues related to your blog. We’ll be happy to take a look 🙂
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At last!
I’m loyal to Yahoo 360 because it was my first weblog.
Sheesh, I’m getting nostalgic now 🙂
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Things just keep getting better! 🙂
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I don’t use Yahoo, but this is great for anyone who does! 🙂
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Sounds just grate!, Personally, I don’t use yahoo products, but I’m sure a lot of people out there will be very pleased by these two improvements on WP.
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I have one Y! 360 blog. But it’s outdated and I didn’t write more than 5 posts.
WordPress.com QuickPress is an interesting application for people with Y! accounts. But I use more Google Services.
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It make WordPress more popular, especially for Yahoo user. And more search engine friendly (Yahoo) I hope.
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Awesome!
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Wow, super easy. Cool stuff. Thanks.
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I’ll inform my acquaintance about this. 🙂
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Interesting I suppose, but of limited relevance unless you use Yahoo a lot. Most of my posts are far too long and involve too much formatting for shortcuts anyway. Instead of working out import tools, perhaps you could add a way to set the editor to indent the first line of each paragraph or accept tabs instead of treating it as a “next item” key? That would be useful to quite a few people and would seem fairly uncomplicated to implement.
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I have a Yahoo 360 account but never used it!
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Sounds good! Nice timing for the release. Thanks guys!
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Yay. My homepage is Yahoo!, so if I ever need to post something, but I’m too lazy to get to the post page, it’s there for me. Thanks guys! ❤
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Wow! This will be superb for my friend!
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Interesting. Very interesting.
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Woohoo!
This excellent news — and a rare moment when wordpress.com has definite advantage over wp.org! Cool!
Love to blog wordpress!
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Thanks for the releasing of WordPress.com QuickPress Yahoo! Application. So I can post posts and read and moderate my most recent comments straight from My Yahoo .
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WOW! That is another SUPER great idea. Super prompt and super all over! Super. I don’t have any other word!
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Ya, such a super good news that finally we may out from there…BUT sadly our data seem jam over there, email never arrive to download our data still stuck with it but always happy to move to wordpress 🙂
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Pretty cool you support importing Yahoo!360 blogs. Unfortunately their export app is pretty crappy and loses quite some data in the process (formatting, the names of the people who commented, etc.). I’m working on a tool to export an Yahoo~360 blog while preserving more data. I hope it’ll be fairly usable in a couple of weeks.
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Awesome!
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thanx mdawaffe!
love the flicker! [know it’s yahoo]
hate the yahoo as they sniched on some chinese clients of theirs to the authorities
and guess what happened to them….
bastards!
you have to change yr avitar! it looks like you have deleted yr face! – we might think you have self mutilation issues 🙂
unless my monitor is set to dark and you have a paper bag on yr head!
that’s koowl
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Thanks. I’ve got some friends to tell.
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Thats an awesome move! 🙂 We can have more friends over at WP.com now! 🙂
That said, its sad what’s happening to Yahoo! They ruled Web 1.0! IMO, they had this coming from a long time. I believe they could not ride the tide this time. 😦
Hope they wade through these bad times and emerge stronger! 🙂
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The My Yahoo thing is cool, will add it now. Didn’t know 360 was closing – its sh*t anyway.
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hope that we will get loads of migrators from Y!360 to keep you guys happily busy. 😀
thanks heaps for the tools. i ❤ wp!
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Good job guys! This is excellent
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Awesome! This will help a lot of people! Thanks WordPress! 😉
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This is great!
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Must try it some time. I am impressed that how easy the blog migration was!
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Great news. Good job buddies.
I had few posts to import from Yahoo 360, I was about to let them go.
Next! Google Adsense please.
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humm……..remarkable…!
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I can’t find Yahoo 360 importer in Tools menu. How do I find it?
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The importer is under Import in the Tools menu of your WordPress.com dashboard.
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Great idea..
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Wow!!!!!!!!
This new feature is great 😉
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Seems like every other day there’s a new app or functionality.
That’s great, but when is wordpress.com finally going to get around to fixing around something that’s been broken for months and months?
I’m talking about incoming links. They NEVER work. Often they show as an incoming link a blog on which I’ve only left a comment.
C’mon guys. Let’s fix the frame and foundation before decorating the house.
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Incoming Links uses Google Blog Search to gather those stats.
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Awesome !!! I’m really happy with these news 😀 Thanks a lot guys.WordPress is the best 😉
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Woah, that’s great! Good job.
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That’s so awesome! I feel sad thought that Yahoo’s 360 and GeoCities is closing down… Oh well, we got Google and WordPress 🙂
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I feel sad that Geocities and 360 is going down. Never used 360 at all, but Geocities was my first webpage server 😦
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Awesome post. I’ll try.
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Unfortunately I don’t use Yahoo.
But, it’s sounds great.
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Sounds interesting…
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Awesome.
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what can I say? The man is a genius!
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I like this Yahoo! relationship thing. I don’t know much about it really, but sure glad it’s not the Icarus-ish “Google” relationship thingy.
I am becoming the paranoid android that I used to make fun of two years ago. I am blogging my detangling ordeal w/google at memesist.wordpress When I stopped to really think about it, I concluded that they knew waaaaay tooooo much about me and my family. Google is my new WalMart. Something to avoid.
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So… how does a person go about transferring the Yahoo stuff to WordPress? I don’t see any links to importer software here.
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The importer is under Tools > Import in your WordPress.com dashboard.
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gotta try this one out. great thanks to WP team!
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I am delighted to find myself being wordpress user.
Like enthusiatic young lady like me will have good
experience with this excellent search engine,I hope
it would we always user-friendly and supportive.
I appreciate for your continous support and the
guidance for usage of this linkage.
With Best Regards!
Yours
SHIRIN SHARMILA
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W(^o^)W!
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I am rather gutted that Yahoo has decided to shut down its Yahoo!360 blogging/social networking site as I am also on it as well as WordPress etc on the internet services that I am on.Off course you can visit my WordPress blogsite and see on my blogroll the sites you can link up with.It is to be hoped that all my fellow Yahoo!360 ers can join forces via WordPress etc and use this as a base for organising ourselves.I would also like WordPress to serve as a device where if Yahoo decides to revive the Yahoo!360 platform then we should have our blogging archives on WordPress to restore our Yahoo!360 sites.
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Great news for all Yahoo! 360 users. As you said i’ll explain about this update to all my friends on Twitter.
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thanks a lot I will tell my friends to move
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I have some friends on 360, this importer is very usefull. I hope they will join wordpress!
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I only wish Yahoo had assisted you over a year ago when I (and many other Yahoo 360 exiles) asked for this. I am still transferring my photos from my Y360 blog one by one here — since the only importer I could find did not include the pics. Well at least it is now available for the remaining 360 refugees that haven’t already found another blogging home.
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Now THAT’s Innovation! .. I’m pinging my friends right-away!
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Cool, nice to know
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that is wonderful
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Well done guys. I wish this could make my wordpress owesome. I will try this. Thanks guys.
Salman Alfarisi
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Great! Awsome!! Delicios!!!
I am a huge fan and user of Yahoo (including 360), so this is just one hell of a good news. Really!
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Sounds Good! I don’t use Yahoo, but this is great for anyone who does!
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Great, I’ll be sure to tell all my friends on 360!
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interesting;) thanks
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WoW awesame Thaks guys…
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Nice addition. But I’ve no friends using Yahoo360 service. Almost all on blogspot and wordpress.
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Glad to see this…My first email and oldest has been with yahoo. Still using the same account.!
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Good to know. Will be back with feedback and comment after using it.
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cool news 🙂
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doesnt work as easily from mac for some reason. maybe it’s just me.
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This is the kind of thing that really attracts people.
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Awesome! This will help a lot of people! Thanks WordPress!
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not a big yahoo user, but good to know, I’ll pass along the word. thanks!
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That’s great news. Way to go WordPress!
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WOW! That is another SUPER great idea………….
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Hi folks
Just to say the importer worked well for me. I brought across 50 blogs from Yahoo360, which came complete with caption pics and comments. I did need to re-size the pics (individually) and add tags to each of the blogs. And so far, external links to pics, within the html has not transferred well. Shame one can’t import one’s friends, the messages in and outbox and the historic top of page comments, but that would have been the icing on the cake.
The transfer process was relatively painless and I am hoping that the community over here will be half as good as it was in Yahoo360.
Hugs
TinaCortina xx
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thanks man….
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That’s fabulous! I was kind of bummed about Yahoo! 360’s being taken down, but this makes it a lot easier to handle. Thank you, WordPress! 🙂
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Neat-o, cool beans n’ all that jazz 😀
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nice I can post strait off my yahoo account thanks again wordpress
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This is recommended for ALL Yahoo 360 users for when it closes down, they will at least have a good place for their blogs.
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Guess maybe I’ll try it then
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good news man 🙂
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thanks for ur information,
i’m making migration now
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I have some friends on 360, this importer is very usefull. I hope they will join wordpress!
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bueen trabajoo! 🙂
excellent! =)
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Good Stuff!
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I found out a few days ago about 360 closing and had only been blogging since Jan. 10th. I had just started feeling comfortable and misread my e-mail and thought it was closing on June 12th {really will be on July 12th} and almost went into a panic and jumped at the invite to move to WordPress with easy instructions….. all of this is very new for me and the move went very well. Still have things to work out and learn….. been working on it myself for now but may yet need some help. I had never heard of WordPress and if I had not panicked like I did I may not have made the move to WordPress….. but now… I am so glad I panicked… I have found such neat stuff….. lol…. I hear some of you lol at me… but that’s OK…. I’m new at this and I’m lol with ya at me….. heck right now my loose lip green cheek is even lol at me……. Thanks WordPress for the big save! This is so much better than 360 ……… Lila
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It’s good.
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One problem with this, guys …
Yahoo 360 was one of those services that allowed users to customise the look and feel of their blogs, which a lot of users on 360 are very particular about, having put real time and effort into giving their blogs the look they preferred. WordPress.com does not offer that kind of functionality, limiting customization to the act of choosing off of a limit set of templates.
You might be about to get a large number of very unhappy campers, who’d probably be much better served over on Blogger. Unless there was some system upgrade I didn’t know about?
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More refined changes to the appearance of your blog can be made with the CSS upgrade.
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