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Yahoo introduces its new social network Mash
by Tatiana Hadarova

Last year Yahoo introduced new social network called Mash, which suppose to replace the old one -Yahoo 360. Although developing of this system is still in progress and its final version haven't been done yet, Yahoo says that it should be great. Mark Hendrickson from TechChrunch, which is developing this new service for Yahoo said, that Mash should be mixture of all the best features of MySpace, Facebook and MyYahoo. To debug new system and to get external ideas and suggestion to improve it, Yahoo's management started to invite people from outside the company to test the Mash and then give their opinions on Yahoo's blog. According to people's references Mash is different from other social networks. Well, it is the matter of each person's opinion whether there still could be something new introduced about social networks features. A new thing should be that neither you can start and customize your own profile, you can also edit profile of your friend by loading him new modules. Profile pages appear to have consistent structural layout and it is possible to design the background by changing the colors and inserting pictures, as in MySpace. Other special modules include Flick RSS, Ego Boost, Common Friends, MyMoshLog2, Blog Module, Asteroids, Astrology, PimpMyPet, Hover, Kaleidescope, Guestbook and My Stuff. For example "PimpMyPet" module is quite interesting. On profile page there is a little emoticon and users can change his mood, name, face or give him a facelift. Another speciality is that Mash is planned to have also its spanish, vietnamese and portuguese version. Yahoo plans to roll Mash out quietly by invitations, which can registered users send to their friends. So now it is just the question of time if there is a place for new social network and how widespread and popular it will be.

related story: http://blog.mash.yahoo.com/

by Tatiana Hadarova for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

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