Yahoo to shut down social network

NEW DELHI: It's curtains down for Yahoo's social network experiment, Mash. The company announced that it is shutting down its one-year-old Yahoo Mash. In an email to Mash members, Yahoo community manager Matt Warburton wrote, "Thank you for trying out our Mash Beta service. We hope you had fun with it. Please note that we will shut down Mash on September 29, 2008. As a result, your current profile on Mash will no longer be available." Touted to be a Facebook competitor, the site had similar type of drag and drop page styling, news feeds of what you're doing to your profile. However, this is not the first time that Yahoo has killed its experimental social network only to yank it. Last year, the company closed down a mobile social site called "Mixd" which was only a few months old. Earlier this year, Yahoo also shut down Yahoo 360, launched in 2005 as one of the early attempt to get the company into social networking.