Digg commenter Hiji writes, “This is the beginning of the end. In a few years all the major blogs and social-media sites will be owned by large corporations, putting us right back where we started.”

The topic of discussion is, of course, TechCrunch’s rumor that Digg will soon be acquired by Google for somewhere in the [...]

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A couple weeks ago Facebook surpassed MySpace to become the largest global social network. Aside from becoming the largest website, there are not many other goals that they could strive to achieve when it comes to traffic. Actually, there is one more goal that would be nice to accomplish: become the number one search term [...]

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As anyone who has had the pleasure of doing web design and development through marketing agencies knows, Flash tends to be wildly popular among clients and wildly unpopular among, well, pretty much everyone else. Part of the reason for this is because Flash is so inherently un-Googleable; anything that goes into a Flash-only site is [...]

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In true Internet-foolery fashion, someone is having a little fun at Yahoo’s expense following its latest executive exodus.

By visiting the newly created site Yahoorezinr.com, current Yahoo employees can expedite their resignation to Yahoo Chief Jerry Yang with a host of Mad Libsstyle pulldown menus.

For example, the site reads: “It is with great ‘sadness/glee/self-interest’ that I [...]

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Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang made the rounds on Capital Hill on Wednesday, in an effort to dispel antitrust concerns surrounding its search advertising deal with Google.

During his one-day visit, Yang met with Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisc., who chairs the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee.

Kohl has previously expressed concerns that the deal between two technology search rivals could [...]

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Yahoo Mail, the top provider of Web-based e-mail, is letting users sign up with the ymail.com and rocketmail.com domains in an attempt to attract new users and keep existing ones loyal.

The move is geared to help people find a better e-mail address, said John Kremer, vice president of Yahoo Mail. “We want users to get [...]

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Instant-messaging power users, rejoice: a barrier between two previously isolated realms of online chat is coming down.

A minor sidelight in the Yahoo-Google search ad deal announced Thursday is that the two companies “agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant-messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users,” the companies said. They’re not sharing further [...]

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With the Microsoft/Yahoo/Google triangle taking a new shape as Microsoft exited and Yahoo and Google connected, the analysts covering tech industry sports are weighing in with their opinions.

Some Wall Street analysts believe Microsoft will take another run at Yahoo if the company can’t get back on track or Carl Icahn wins his proxy fight to [...]

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Among all the discussion of the opening of the social web, one thing continues to be a sticky issue for social networks: the lack of a revenue model. While there is advertising revenue being generated on social networks, it is still a fraction of the amount being generated on sites like Yahoo! and Google. Om [...]

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Nearly three-fourths of U.S. cell phone users recently surveyed don’t want to ride in airplanes with passengers talking on phones.
The results dovetail with what several airlines have apparently decided already as they prepare to roll out wireless in-flight services such as e-mail, text and instant messaging access from user devices. Those services, however, apparently [...]

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