Yahoo 360 Closed Soon

Feeling unlucky to compete with Facebook, Yahoo will soon close the social network, Yahoo 360. According to its plan, this site will be closed in the coming July.

In fact, Yahoo 360 has been planned to close at the beginning of the 2009. Somehow, finally the closing is eventually delayed until the end of the mid-2009, precisely later on July 17. Thus as cited from PC World, Sunday (31/5/2009).

According to the Yahoo, the service is intentionally closed. Because since for the first time getting introduced in October 2007, Yahoo 360 has been less attracted by the majority of Yahoo users. Moreover, during the beta, there have been many criticisms to this application.

"At this time there is a feature profile on Yahoo 360 preferred by the user. However, we will explore new ways of combining and expressing yourself through your profile," said Yahoo spokesman Daniels.

Besides, many other lacks of the Yahoo 360 such as, it does not give users the rights to download their contents and move them to other popular blogs such as WordPress, blog owned by Google, Blogger.

Basically, Yahoo 360 is a communication portal that combines the features of social networking web sites, blogs, and the photo sharing. A user can create a personal web site, share photos from Yahoo Photos, maintain blog, various local reviews, profile information, and see online friends.

Brain-Twitter Enables You To Send Messages Just By Thinking

Adam Wilson, a doctoral-program student of biomedichal engineering department at the University of Wisconsin developed a tool called Brain-Twitter that allows Twitter's members to post messages through the electrical stimulus generated by the power of mind. 

Brain-Twitter application replaces the role of keyboard for typing messages. With a red hat containing an electrode and functions to monitor brain activity to be translated to text. What is in the brain will be then delivered directly to your computer and written on the screen. 

"The development of this device can be used to help the people with "locked-in syndrome", where they generally have a normal brain but they can not speak or move due to illness or injury," said Wilson, as quoted by CNN, Friday (24 / 4 / 2009). 

The idea to create this came out when a listener at a radio station put forward a statement that it will be very exciting if Twitter's users can send messages only by thinking. Wilson quickly invited his colleagues, Justin Williams to bring this breakthrough into reality. 

But Williams doesn't know yet when this invention can be marketed specifically for people with locked-in syndrome. He only said  very happy and proud of this invention.

Twitter Can Demoralize Someone

The researchers reemingly are in race in revealing the bad sides of networking sites.

The flood of information and continually update of the networking sites such as Twitter can be said to demoralize someone.

It is a claim of a study at the University of Southern California, United States. The study presumes that if a human brain is flooded by informations can affect the development of emotion, particularly on young people.

According to the researchers that involved 13 volunteers in the research, pepople can not react appropriately when bad news continue to come in so quickly.

This makes people not so sensitive to the psychological condition and sufferings of others. At the ends, the researchers claim that it can reduce the values of human's moral.

This study says, people take 6 to 8 seconds to respond well to a story with emotional. But the flood of informations via networking site does not enable it.