Have you ever wondered what would happen to your content on third-party sites if those sites ceased to exist? You may own your content on them as it stands now, but what if they went away?
Would you be ok if your tweets or your status updates disappeared? Discuss here.
Yahoo has officially shut down Geocities.The company has said that it did not count the property among its priorities, so it is simply getting rid of it. Yahoo has shut down about 20 services in less than a year.
You may have read that Yahoo is closing the door on GeoCities. This was announced a week ago after about ten years of Yahoo ownership.
"We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways," GeoCities noted.
This afternoon, we learned that Yahoo intends to shut down GeoCities, the once-thriving Web hosting service. And while it's true that GeoCities isn't in the same shape it used to be, this move does raise questions about just how quick new CEO Carol Bartz is to give up on certain projects.
GeoCities, that mainstay of the mid-to-late '90s Internet, is about done for. New GeoCities accounts are no longer available, and although it hasn't yet given a specific date, Yahoo has made clear that GeoCities will be shut down sometime later this year.
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