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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Yahoo! Post Build New Community Network




Yahoo launched Yahoo! Post, the latest features that combines search and social activities. Through this feature, users can search the content according to interest and create new communities that have the same interests.

The launch made on Wednesday (21/09/2011) in Jakarta. This is the launch Yahoo! Post a third in the world after Hong Kong and Korea. Yahoo! Post can be accessed at http://id.post.yahoo.com by anyone who has a Yahoo account and has so far been limited to local content.

Reveal the background of the development of Yahoo! Post, Aryo Kresnadi, Regional Product Marketing Manager Yahoo! Southeast Asia, said, "Indonesia 85 percent of Internet users conduct a search and 91 percent of users of social activities."

Pontus Sonnerstedt, Country Manager Indonesia reveals Yahoo, Yahoo Post different from other forums and social media. "Not just social. By entering a keyword, we can get the topics that we need," said Pontus.

Another difference is the determination of the forum moderators. In Yahoo Post, the moderator shall be elected democratically by the people involved choices that forum. Moderators can also be sanctioned when melanggara provisions forum.

To access Yahoo! Post, the user must have a Yahoo email ID. After you log in using the ID, the user can start the quest item, go and make comments to a specific forum to create a new forum.

Just like in other forums, users can also upload pictures, photos, and videos in the posts on the forum. Members in Yahoo Post was divided into 3 status, contributors, voters and moderator. Improvement status is determined by the activity in the forums and posting ratings are achieved. To be a moderator for instance, need a minimum of 50 posts and selected by half of the total voters.

Yahoo! Post who is currently still in beta, so it opens next development. "One is we want to develop is the integration with other Yahoo! features, like a somersault and Flickr," said Aryo.

Making Yahoo! Post related to Yahoo's business strategy. "Finding the content as well as to capture the community, it's one of our strategies. This is not directly related to revenue, but rather on our way to engage users and communities," said Pontus.

Pontus acknowledges that it has a lot of forums that are hosted on another website. But according to him, search and social is a big land thus opening the opportunity for anyone to come and play. Yahoo! also had good reason to get involved.

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