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Thankfully I don't use these products so the shutdown doesn't personally affect me. The only issue that jumps out is the post went up 4/19 Friday afternoon and the shutdown date is 4/30, including the API. Anyone relying on these services has 7 business days to respond.

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"Like we announced last month" (link to post from 01.03)

If you click through, that post announces a different set of services which have now been shut down. "Last Month" was avatars, Yahoo on Blackberry, Clues, App Search, Sports IQ, boards, and Updates API.

That blog post was March 1st and the services shutdown April 1st with the Updates API shutting down April 16th.

oh, right, sorry.

well, pretty irresponsible then. you come back from a short vacation and your data is gone.

This is an important point. Not only should your online services have an easy way for you to get data out of them, but you probably should have a reasonably sane backup schedule, just like you would for hard drives/physical media/etc.

That being said this is a very short amount of time, and hopefully future shutdowns like this at yahoo and other places give more of a warning.

Yahoo engineers may have verified that none of the users of these products have a vacation scheduled in Yahoo Calendar, which will presumably be the last property to shut down, for this reason.

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