Yahoo! has released an update for Messenger for Mac 3.0. It is the latest release and includes several bug fixes. Some of these issues were stealth settings, file transfer, mobile settings, and windows live issues. I have included the original post from the Yahoo! Messenger Team
Just as the headline reads folks. The Yahoo! Music store is now shutting the doors. It is urging its customers to burn their purchased music to CD. Which for all of you that have paid for this service, i would suggest doing that pronto!! You wont be able to share music either, from what I understand however they will be teaming up with Rhapsody. Which I don’t know why, they could have gone for a better situation if you ask me. Rhapsody. seriously.. gross..
Here is the e-mail that the Yahoo! Music store team sent out:
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In a move long in the Making, Adobe Systems is teaming up with Search Engine leaders to make Flash content more Searchable. This should have quite the impact on a lot of sites that are now having to clone content in order for them to rank anywhere in the search engines. Although I doubt that it will be as good. My advice is to stick w/ duplicating content from flash to html form and cloaking the content based on user agent / ip address.
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The central complaint revolves around slow decision-making, a long-standing issue. New services still must run a gauntlet of meetings and approvals that can delay them for months. “It was difficult to get things done,” says Greg Yardley, a product manager who left earlier this year.
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Yahoo counterpunched later Monday morning, issuing a statement (given here in its entirety) expressing its interest in talking to Microsoft about a buyout of the entire company, if only someone would make an actual offer, and the right kind of offer:
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As Google keeps growing its share of search queries, it’s hard not to wonder if anything’s going to slow it down. Tonight, Yahoo is throwing up a long pass in hopes of changing the game that Google already seems to have won.
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A subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony this morning from senior executives of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo regarding the implications of the Yahoo/Google ad sharing agreement. Their statements reveal diverse views of what constitutes “competition.”
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I have previously posted about allowing smileys in the new Yahoo! Messenger 9 status messages. Which in my opinion is pretty damn cool. Yahoo! has come out again with another update regarding status messages. This time they have created a new interface for inputting your status messages along with hyperlinks.
The Yahoo! messenger team has released an update for Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista. The primary focus in this update is bug and crash fixes along with some enhancements to the user interface in hopes to make it a little more intuitive. Changes were made to text formatting, voice improvements and they are still working on webcam support.
Here are a few quotes from the original posting:
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Yahoo for some reason or another has brought back @rocketmail and has also added @ymail to their service. Rocketmail has been around forever and went away for a little while. Maybe it is just some sort of marketing ploy to say hey come look at what we brought back.
In any account you can create names with @rocketmail and sign into yahoo messenger with them. So for all you elite name types, go create some new ids before they are gone. Here is the post from the Yahoo Messenger Blog regarding the new Yahoo! IDs.