Yahoo Buzz Launches: Popular Stories To Go On Yahoo Homepage — Yahoo launches the much anticipated Yahoo Buzz tonight - a Digg-like site that takes stories from pre-approved news publishers (100 to start) and let's users vote on stories and push them up to the top of the page...
How To Manage Your Online Reputation — You've spent a lot of time building up your reputation and image both online and off, so it's important to make sure that someone isn't out there dragging it through the mud. The latest tool for reputation management is Trackur, but its bottom-level price is $88/month, so the question on my mind, is: "Is it worth it?" There are already many different ways to monitor your online reputation as it is.
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Yahoo Buzz hopes to generate more buzz than BuzzTracker did — Yahoo continues to roll out new services post-Microsoft offer, tonight launching Yahoo Buzz, a popularity-based news aggregator. The site will take into account a number of factors including votes, search frequency and times a story is emailed to determine the most buzz-worthy stories. Top stories will be considered for placement on Yahoo's homepage.
Google2Go: Unofficial Windows Mobile app for Google services — There are a ton of Google services that are optimized for mobile web browsers, including the company's search page, RSS reader, and email client. But Google has yet to release a response to Yahoo! Go, Yahoo!'s mobile version of its web application web suite. So developer Bryan Burkholder decided to put one together all by his lonesome. He calls it Google2Go. SoftMaker Office 2008 Beta for Windows Mobile and Windows — SoftMaker has released a public beta of its office suite for Windows Mobile devices and Windows computers. SoftMaker Office includes full-featured replacements for the mobile versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that ship with Windows Mobile devices....
Live video from Adobe Engage event — I've been live streaming all morning from the Adobe Engage event. Here's a schedule. This is an event that Adobe's holding to launch new versions of Adobe AIR and Flex and to showcase some developers who've built stuff using those two technologies. So, here's the video from this morning's stuff — if you have only time for one, watch the New York Times or the MFG.com videos. They were the most impressive to me....
FriendFeed tells you what your friends are up to online — FriendFeed is leaving private beta tonight and opening up to everyone. It's a potentially useful service that aggregates what your friends are doing around the Web into one big feed you can easily scan. In other words, if you've got friends who Twitter, friends who post photos on Flickr, friends who favorite videos on YouTube....
Latest E-Mail Scam Offers Reprieve -- at a Price -- From Killer-for-Hire — If only real hit men were so courteous. In recent months, authorities said, about a dozen Fairfax and Stafford county residents have received e-mails telling them that they are about to be killed. There is a twist: The killer offers a way out.
Google co-founder takes shot at Microsoft's bid for Yahoo — Last year Google denied Microsoft's claim that the search giant's proposed acquisition of online ad company DoubleClick would cripple competition for Internet advertising. Now Google co-founder Sergey Brin is suggesting that Microsoft's (MSFT) proposed $44.6 billion takeover of Yahoo (YHOO) would monopolize the Internet...
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