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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 came across this little tip on bigblueball.com. A user wanted to know how to export their buddy list into a csv or a text file. After a few suggestions that honestly weren’t the best idea a post was finally made with this quick little tip. This should be easy enough for everyone to do without having issues.
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(Unsakred.Net) — Microsoft Corp.’s pursuit of Yahoo Inc. ended abruptly Saturday when the world’s largest software maker withdrew a sweetened $46 billion offer and said it would not make a hostile bid for the Internet company.

Microsoft said the breakdown came despite having raised the bid to $33 a share, or $5 billion above what it said was the current value of the offer and a 70% premium compared to its original offer.

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The My Yahoo! team has rolled out a new module for the beta My! Yahoo page. This incorporation resembles the new web messenger that was released a few months ago. Glad to see yahoo is rolling out this technology across the board. If you have not yet signed up for a My Yahoo! Beta account you can do so by clicking on this link.
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Yahoo has just released a new service on their network entitled “Kickstart”. This new social network will be compared closely to Facebook, since it is aiming at the college crowd. Although I wouldn’t really say that this service is going to be like Facebook in most regards it seems to me it is a more professionally geared social networking service. This new social network feels to me more like Facebook meets linkedin. I don’t think you will be seeing to many keg stand pictures on Kickstart. If you are interested in finding old college buddies and building a professional profile, I suggest you give it a try.

Yahoo! Kickstart

Co-founder Jerry Yang made a blog post on Yahoo! official blog basically stating that Yahoo! will start to move in a new direction. And with this direction it appears that Yahoo! will be merging the not so popular 360 platform to a more integrated profile. In my opinion it is seriously about time,they started to merge the other various Yahoo! properties together, especially those concerning the Yahoo! community.

I would love to see them expand their profile to encompass Answers and even their new social networking platform Mash which is still in private beta. Although I do have a Mash account I have not really used it, the idea of letting other people mess with your page is the only real drawback for me on it (although I believe you can stop that.)

This is what was posted on the 360 blog:

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