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GEOCITIES used to be the place many people made their first website, but now it’s shutting up shop.

Yahoo announced it is closing GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages, which it acquired 10 years ago during the dotcom boom.

The service, which became synonymous with early amateur websites and old-school animated images, is no longer accepting new customers and will be closing later this year.

Yahoo will give more details about how individuals can save their data in the next few months.

Web users have reacted with a mix of sadness, nostalgia and scorn for the piece of web history.

“See you later GeoCities… end of an era,” one Twitter user said.

“Yahoo to shutdown the good ol’ geocities. that’s a shame,” another said.

But some users weren’t so kind.

“R.I.P. Geocities. We thought you were already dead.”

GeoCities was among the first companies to build online communities, with more than 3.5 million websites hosted on its service in the late 1990s. Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999 in a stock deal valued at over $4.6 billion.

But the web service fell out of favour in recent years, as a generation of social network sites such as Facebook and Myspace have become popular among web users.

Yahoo’s move comes a few days after it said it would lay off nearly 700 workers, or 5 per cent of its workforce.

Since chief executive Carol Bartz took the reins in January, Yahoo has pruned various products – such as online video editing service Jumpcut – to cut costs and focus on fundamentals as it seeks to revive growth in a tough economy and fierce competition from Google.

“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,” Yahoo said in a statement.

“As part of Yahoo’s ongoing effort to build products and services that deliver the best possible experiences for consumers and results for advertisers, we are increasing investment in some areas while scaling back in others.”

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THE co-founder of MySpace is leaving the social network as it moves into a new management structure.

Chris DeWolfe is stepping down as chief executive of the social network, MySpace owner News Corp has announced.

News Corp’s new chief digital officer Jonathan Miller said that “by mutual agreement, Mr DeWolfe will not be renewing his contract and will be stepping down in the near future.”

In a statement, News Corp also said that Mr Miller was “in discussions” with MySpace president Tom Anderson which would have him “assuming a new role in the organization.”

Mr DeWolfe will continue to serve on the board of MySpace China and be a strategic advisor to the company.

“In a little under six years we’ve grown MySpace from a small operation with seven people to a very profitable business with over 1600 employees,” Mr DeWolfe said.

“It’s been one of the best experiences of my life and we’re proud of, and grateful to, the team of talented people who helped us along the way.”

Mr Anderson and Mr DeWolfe are credited with creating MySpace, which launched in 2003 and was bought by News Corporation in 2005 for $US580 million ($815.8 million).

“From the very beginning, our driving passion has been simple - to create and foster a platform where people across the globe can not only meet and interact, but share music, videos, thoughts and ideas,” Mr Anderson said.

“I love this business, and look forward to its next chapter.”

Mr Miller said Anderson and DeWolfe were “true pioneers” and credited them with building MySpace into a “vibrant creative community” with 130 million followers worldwide.

He added that a new management structure for MySpace will be announced “in the near future.”

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IF you’ve ever been shocked by search results for your name, Google has come up with a way to save face online.

The web search giant is giving people influence over what information turns up in searches on their names.

The company began this week featuring Google profiles, created voluntarily by users, at the bottoms of US “name-query” pages.

“It’s no secret that from time to time many of us have searched on Google for our name or someone else’s,” Google software engineer Brian Stoler said in a blog post.

“When searching for yourself to see what others would find, results can be varied and aren’t always what you want people to see. We want to make that better and give you more of a voice.”

However, the profiles don’t necessarily block bad results, which could still appear in general search results.

Profiles require users to provide personal information in order to appear on public search results.

Users can provide nicknames, work information, photos, links, and even list their “superpowers”.

Concise profiles are displayed along with results of searches on people’s names to allow a little control of one’s online image.

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