Being the slow, not-so-trendy sort, it took me a while to pay attention to Yahoo! 360°. Or rather, it took Jeremy’s post offering invitations, which suddenly sprouted more than 200 comments.
There are lots of observant people out there, so I doubt my comments, or the mails I threw out, or my internal journal post in February, or my small aside here in June, had anything at all to do with Yahoo! noticing that they already have data on some social networks.
Now they’re mining it, to provide something that you may find useful.
The question, of course, is would you freak out if your service provider mined the data that you provided to it for some other purpose. E.g. if my telco “noticed” that I was talking to a pharmacy and to a doctor’s office and sent me a coupon good for a different pharmacy, I think I’d get upset.
Yahoo 360 is an interesting amalgam of the various things Yahoo provides. I have accumulated a bunch of stuff there over the years and it was nice to see some of it reappear after being long-dormant, still intact. It’s not a replacement for my real blog though.