Del.icio.us founder leaves Yahoo |
| 6/20/2008 4:26:03 AM |
The big name Yahoo departure announcements just continue to roll in. Joshua Schachter, the founder of the del.icio.us social-bookmarking service Yahoo acquired in 2005, is joining the executive exodus from the Internet giant. He's one of an ever-longer list of recent Yahoo departures.
 Yahoo believes there are plenty of other folks to keep del.icio.us healthy: "His... Read More |
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Commenting Through Disqus |
| 6/18/2008 6:32:38 AM |
 Disqus is a commenting service with threaded conversations. Disqus makes your comments more interactive for readears and easier to manage for you. The service lets you easily track all comments you have left scattered over the blogosphere.
Disqus serves as a social community for those that may engage in conversations at your site and at sites that may share the same topic... Read More |
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SNIFF Your Friends |
| 6/4/2008 7:15:45 AM |
 SNIFF or 'Social Network Integrated Friend Finder' has been launched by Useful Networks keeping in mind the question “Where are you” which is asked quite often on mobile phones.
The Social Network Integrated Friend Finder is a permission-based service that allows friends to find each other in the real world. This useful service enables your friends and loved ones to trace... Read More |
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Yahoo Showdown With Icahn Set |
| 6/4/2008 7:04:54 AM |
 Yahoo Inc set its annual shareholder meeting for August 1 in the heart of Silicon Valley, as it braced for a showdown with billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who is mounting a proxy fight for control of Yahoo.Earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported that Icahn would seek to remove Jerry Yang as Yahoo chief executive, citing the company's failure, so far, to reach a... Read More |
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To Build a Better Twitter |
| 6/3/2008 3:06:32 PM |
Twitter's recent reliability issues and downtime have left a hole in the nanoblog market, to the extent that such a market actually exists.
 is like Twitter, but newer. Plurk takes the Twitter idea of constant, short updates and builds on it with better visual elements and more features. Its big advantage is its user interface. You get an attractive timeline view of all... Read More |
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Microsoft has a fool proof plan for Live Search |
| 6/3/2008 7:59:28 AM |
 Microsoft has a fool proof plan to ensure that every new PC user chooses Windows Live Search.
The Redmond Giant has signed a deal with Hewlett-Packard to embed a Live Search toolbar on all new consumer PCs in North America for next year.
Live Search will also be set up as the default search engine on the accompanying browser. Naturally Microsoft expects this to help drive a... Read More |
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What is Wikio? |
| 5/30/2008 2:31:27 PM |
 Wikio is a smart combination of Digg+Technorati+Google news. An information portal with a news search engine that searches press sites and blogs.
Wikio is a really Web2.0 news search engine. It watches, real time, thousands of news sources, gathers hundreds of thousands of stories every day and classifies them by their topics in a multi millions documents database.... Read More |
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Microsoft To Release Social Bookmarking Tool |
| 5/27/2008 5:02:21 PM |
 Microsoft is set to release a product called “Social Bookmarks” this week, a tool that lets users tag and share their favorite Web pages with friends and colleagues. The product sounds a whole lot like del.icio.us, and will initially be deployed on MSDN and TechNet professional networks.
Yahoo has done little to take del.icio.us mainstream since acquiring the original... Read More |
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Viacom lawsuit threatens YouTube |
| 5/27/2008 8:08:58 AM |
 YouTube owner, Google, is currently battling with media giant, Viacom, over a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit. Viacom complains that the video sharing site consistently allows user to post copyrighted material and that the site operators have done "little or nothing to stop it". In response, Google claims that Viacom's lawsuit "threatens the way... Read More |
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Video comments on blogs are brilliant |
| 5/26/2008 1:53:55 PM |
 A service that was once just just a blip on the radar made a rather huge leap, a leap that could catapult the service past Twitter.
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Carl Icahn Revolts |
| 5/23/2008 3:43:00 PM |
 Yahoo Inc.'s board is urging shareholders not to sign or return proxy cards sent to them in connection with activist investor Carl Icahn's efforts to replace the company's current directors.
Icahn, who like many shareholders is upset with the company's handling of Microsoft Corp.'s last offer of $47.5 billion for the company, has nominated a slate of candidates to replace... Read More |
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Yahoo's Grumpy Shareholders |
| 5/23/2008 12:13:32 PM |
 Yahoo has postponed its annual shareholder meeting from July 3rd to some point later in the month. This is believed to be designed to give Yahoo's board the chance to prepare itself in the face of mounting rebellion from shareholders.
This is actually the second time Yahoo's board has delayed the meeting, the first time because it was exploring alternatives to Microsoft's... Read More |
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Yamaha’s $2000 Electric Bike Special iPod Version |
| 5/22/2008 11:45:40 AM |
 The compact EC-02 electric bike from Yamaha. Yamaha has created a special version of its EC-02 electric scooter that features built-in stereo speakers on the sides and a docking area for a fourth-generation iPod just in front of the seat. The iPod-equipped EC-02 also features an amplifier, an extra battery, and an Apple wired remote that’s molded into a compartment on the... Read More |
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Google makes web pages social |
| 5/12/2008 1:40:54 PM |
 Google has announced a preview version of Friend Connect, a service which allows any registered web site to offer its visitors social networking and interactive features, and take advantage of much larger sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, and Plaxo.
Anyone visiting a web site featuring Friend Connect may be able to connect with their online friends,... Read More |
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Yahoo has a hit on its hands with Flickr |
| 5/8/2008 11:36:49 AM |
 In the wake of Microsoft’s aborted courtship of Yahoo and Jerry “Oh, did you increase your offer?” Yang, there’s bound to be a lot of scrutiny about what’s next for Yahoo.
One asset that’s well known but perhaps not scrutinized from an investment perspective is Flickr, the world’s most popular photo-sharing social network site that Yahoo picked up for a song (estimated... Read More |
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Yahoo, Microsoft and the non-deal that everybody can’t stop talking about |
| 5/7/2008 6:54:17 AM |
 So what now, for Yahoo? Co-founder and chief executive Jerry Yang has been getting a lot of grief from angry shareholders for not taking Microsoft’s $33 a share offer, and instead holding out for $37 or $38.
After the deal fell through at the weekend, Yahoo's share price dropped far below the $33 offer made by Microsoft.
Gordon Crawford of Capital Research Global Investors,... Read More |
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Surchur launches a new memetracker for any search term |
| 5/5/2008 12:06:09 PM |
 Surchur is a new search tool launching today that is quite interesting. Rather than offering pre-set pages for different categories like tech or politics, it allows the user to search on any terms they want, and then generates a Popurls-like page.
For example, search for American Idol, and you get links to stories on social news sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.), news headlines... Read More |
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Yahoo CEO Yang now on the hot seat |
| 5/5/2008 6:37:10 AM |
 Microsofts pursuit of Yahoo ended abruptly Saturday when the world's largest software maker withdrew a sweetened $47.5 billion offer and said it would not make a hostile bid for the Internet company.
Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang is convinced that the company he started in a Silicon Valley trailer 14 years ago is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft... Read More |
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Microsoft threatens then increases offer |
| 5/3/2008 10:25:44 AM |
 Microsoft has increased its offer by several billion dollars but a deal is still far from certain. Microsoft had threatened to abandon its bid or initiate an attempt to oust Yahoo’s board, has increased its offer.
The talks were an effort by Microsoft to reach a negotiated agreement and avert the collapse of a blockbuster deal that could reshape competition on the Internet... Read More |
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Decision expected on Microsoft bid for Yahoo! |
| 5/2/2008 1:19:58 PM |
 A takeover of Yahoo would be the biggest acquisition in Microsoft's history and it isn't about to rush in willy-nilly.
Of course, the Redmond giant happily gobbles up smaller companies without batting an eye-lid - the monster corporation probably already ate three before its power-brunch this morning. However, Yahoo's refusal of its $41.8 Billion bid and the passing of the... Read More |
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