Yahoo!, friend of the small porn publisher

well, that didn't take long. yahoo! 360 is only a few weeks into its beta period. i remember when y! groups was the fastest-growing home porn publishing platform on the innernet. why, it got so big, when y! started moving them to a restricted adult category and restricting their archive size,  there even proved to be a business in archiving adult-related y! groups.

now y! groups is so passe, so lacking in pastel bgcolors, but yahoo! 360 comes to the rescue. Probably less than 100k yahoo! 36o subscribers out there, but already it's got the attention of a few teen porn publishers.

and why not? yahoo! 360 has an easy memorable URL option, it's got a blog that can include images, it's got photo albums, and it's got an easy way to stay in touch with (cough cough) "friends". that's about all you need to get started in the SMEP (Small/Medium Enterprise Porn) business. yahoo! 360 is an easy and free way to attract crowds to your porn website, or to someone else's (and you collect a share of clickthru or sub revenues.)

yahoo! can try and minimize the porn by using "bad word" bots to search for shady stuff, and customer service "abuse" reps to scour the user pages and delete the bad guys/gals, but all that costs money, and so far, i don't see where yahoo! 360 is gonna earn any revenue...

if there were anybody left at yahoo! who remembered how this happened once before with yahoo! groups, perhaps this need never have happened.

or, someone in charge at yahoo! could have taken a leaf out of the book of business networking sites like linkedin.com and the way they don't let you advertise to just anybody, requiring you to be introduced to other members who have already verified your identity.

instead, now all we need is one Concerned Parents Lobby or Ban Internet Porn for Jesus campaigner to get wind of this, go rant to a journalist, and it's bad press coverage for months to cum... sorry, that should read "come".