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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.”

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.”

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.

THE internet has only just started to flourish, its founders say, and will expand in the future with appliances and international users.

“The web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past,” said Tim Berners-Lee, one of the inventors of the World Wide Web, at a seminar on its future this week.

Just 23 per cent of the globe’s population currently uses the internet, according to the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union, with use much higher in developed nations.

By contrast, just five per cent of Africans surf the web, it said in a report issued in March.

But that level is expected to rise, especially in developing nations, as mobile internet access takes off, making it no longer necessary to use a computer to surf the web, said internet co-founder Vinton Cerf.

“We will have more internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the internet,” the Google vice president and chief internet evangelist said.

Robert Cailliau, who designed the web with Berners-Lee in 1989, said having more data on the internet, and more people with the ability to access it, will spur the development of new technology and solutions to global problems.

“When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces,” the Belgian software scientist said.

The internet has already led to the development of businesses that could not have existed without it, boosted literacy and learning and brought people closer together through cheaper modes of communication, the internet pioneers said.

“We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily,” said Cerf.

With the help of other scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Berners-Lee and Cailliau set up the web in 1989 to allow thousands of scientists around the world to share information and data.

The WWW technology - which simplifies the process of searching for information on the internet - was first made more widely available from 1991.

The number of websites has since ballooned from just 500 as recently as 1994 to over 80 million currently, with growing numbers of sites consisting of user-generated content like blogs.

Even its founders are surprised by its popularity.

“What we did not imagine was a web of people, but a web of documents,” said Dale Dougherty, the founder of GNN, the Global Network Navigator, the first web portal and the first site on the internet to be supported by advertising.

For his part, Cailliau said he was impressed that search engines can still sort through the myriad of material that is now online.

“To me the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites,” said Cailliau.

Google has already had to pull images from its Google Maps Street View tool launched on Thursday, after a number of early testers registered privacy complaints with the service, identifying images of themselves captured in the photos.

The tool, available for 25 UK cities, gives users a 360 degree view of particular streets through merging photos collected by Google drivers using car-mounted cameras.

Images taken down so far include a man vomiting in Shoreditch and another man outside a Soho sex shop. Replacing them is now a message that reads “This image is no longer available”.

According to reports, Google has said the number of images removed has been “less than expected”.

“The tools are there for users to remove pictures they are not happy with,” a Google spokesman told The Independent.

But concerns over Street View are not new. Before the tool was launched in the UK, a number of privacy experts had queried the service, including UK rights group Privacy International’s Simon Davis, who believed Street View would break data protection laws.

“The idea that a commercial organisation could turn public images into profit is something that was not envisioned by the law,” he said last July.

But the reason Street View could launch in the UK was because the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), after discussing the system with Google, was satisfied it did not breach the Data Protection Act.

The ICO said before the launch that “Google is keen to capture images of streets and not individuals” and that the all clear had been given because the company had promised to blur number plates and faces to protect privacy.

However because users are now finding it easy to identify themselves, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has promised to investigate complaints and Privacy International has again put forward its case.

“These images are being captured without people’s permission for commercial user, and we believe that it is not legally acceptable,” Davis told The Telegraph. “They are also putting into place a system for updating these images in the future, and for storing the images digitally where they could be misused, ” he said.

Google is still dealing with privacy cases in the US concerning Street View where it was launched in early 2007.

Last year, a high profile legal case erupted when a US Pennsylvania couple sued Google for trespass and invasion of privacy, after the firm took pictures of their drive which was marked with ‘Private Road’ and ‘No Trespassing’ signs. The couple said that the pictures had caused their home to diminish in value by $25,000, but the US court ruled in Google’s favour.

Street View is also available in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Google and the ICO could not immediately be reached for comment.

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