On September 29, 2008 Yahoo! will shut down it beta service Yahoo! Mash. Mash users (me included) already got an email announcement about the closing and being urged to copy al the important information of the web site and copy it to a different document.

Once the service is closed all of the content on your Mash profile with the EXCEPTION of your profile photo, nickname, age, sex and location (if you’ve provided this information) will be unavailable.

Here is the email message I got:

Dear Yahoo! Mash member,

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. We strongly recommend that you return to http://mash.yahoo.com and copy the content that you wish to save onto a separate document.

For a list of FAQs, please refer to the Mash Help Page.

Thanks for trying out Mash!

Matt Warburton