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Category Archives: Yahoo!

DoubleClick to Google

The search giant willl shell out $3.1 billion in cash for the Internet’s largest advertising group DoubleClick, according to a press release today.

“It has been our vision to make Internet advertising better–less intrusive, more effective and more useful,” said Sergey Brin, one of Google’s co-founders.
According to CNET, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and AOL were also in talks [...]

Google wasting time in Q2?

Every year, Google does something silly for April Fools Day. This year they offered to print and ship all of your Gmail, and even touted a free wireless LAN service through your toilet on their home page.

Today, they counterbombed Yahoo by promoting their new “Infinity plus one” unlimited mail storage.
This is all very new [...]

Happy Birthday Hypertext Girl

Have you kept your New Years Resolution?
It’s mid March already, and most of us have ignored the fact that our taxes are due in less than a month, let alone keeping a resolution that we fail to keep every other year.
I recently met someone who has kept that promise to herself, and is sharing [...]

The 50 Most Important People On The Web

from Christopher Null, PC World:
Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling on their keisters as much as the next person, but without the folks who create the Craigslists, [...]

Try Social Bookmarking

Before the days of Google, there were huge phonebook-like directories with thousands of web addresses, mostly with many slashes past the first level domain. You had to type in numbers and random words or characters just to get to your favorite websites.
Saving a website as a favorite or a bookmark used to be the cure [...]

The Cell Phone of the Future

Apple is a revolutionary entity. In 1984, they introduced the first real personal computer, the Macintosh. In 2001, it was the iPod. Now, in 2007, behold the iPhone. Pending a lawsuit from Cisco on the trademark, the iPhone will be released in June of this year.

Apple has filed over 200 patents related to the [...]