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Yahoo! has just informed subscribers to corporate newsletter of the newly available “privacy choice for consumers”. This basically means that from the end of August we will be able to opt-out of customized advertising on yahoo.com if we believe it invades our privacy.
Actually Yahoo! had an opt-out available to users even before today: users could opt out of customized ads served by Yahoo! on third-party networks.
Today’s announcement expands this approach further and comes as a part of Yahoo! response to [...]

It looks like the Olympic Games is a focus of everyone’s attention anyway so I decided to collect the special themed Olympic logos on some of the websites - well, those I have managed to find myself. They are not numerous so I suspect that not every web compny can afford such things for every special even. Google is definitely leading the game since the internet giant seems to produce a new logo for every important event - this is [...]

Today SecondBrain announces a number of new services added to its lifestream aggregator and expected funding. For those of you uninitiated, the Norwegian startup is a lifestream aggregator that not only aggregates content from supported services but also allows user to create tag-based collections of content based on topics of their choice.
Today’s announcement includes addition of a total of 10 new services, including FriendFeed, Facebook, Diigo, Reddit, Mixx, and Qik. My concern is that at least addition of FriendFeed may [...]

Today a new service from Schmap is out of private beta to help webmasters optimize any of their websites for iPhone almost without efforts and completely for free as well. This optimization is only intended for the contact details so it will be most helpful for local businesses, like restaurants or coffee shops.
Actually the main service of Schmap is assembling online guides for various places around the world based on user-submitted information. It also allows downloading desktop guides for any [...]

Now that Beijing is almost ready for the opening ceremony, I guess for all the sports fans (or those of us who only turn into sports fans for the Olympics) it is time to get ready and prepare our feed readers for The Games. While Wired offers a selection of places to watch the Games online, I am sure that not everyone has the time to actually watch everything so I have collected a few places where you can grab [...]

Today there’s a very interesting story on The New Your Times blog that grabbed my attention because of its title - “Rumor Control: Why I Can’t Put “Tibet” in My Hotmail Address”. In the article David Gallagher references a reader who attempted to register an email address containing the word “Tibet” in it (it has something to do with his book about Tibet) on Hotmail but failed because the ID chosen contained “a word or phrase that is not allowed”.
The [...]

I just love the days when Google makes some important announcement (or not important -it rarely matters), especially when such an announcement is about their advertising solutions. The blogosphere will be abuzz this only topic for a whole day and then will continue talking about it for a week or so until all the details are discussed properly.
Today’s big news is enhancement of Google’s content network - the network that combines all the publishers participating in Google AdSense program. The [...]

Time and participation are the fuel that feeds social media, in the war for your attention there are a few weapons that are proven to attract the attention of early adopters.  In turn, early adopters become the foot soldiers in the battle for larger markets.  Functionality, ease of use, clean design, and an API are just a few items in the armory that can attract early adopters, who in turn can create the engaged community, enhancing scripts, and complementary websites [...]

It was only yesterday that we discussed Mozilla’s idea to crowdsource definition of the future of the web, internet browser in particular, by calling for concepts of what internet users want the perfect browser of the future to be. Now it seems that Mozilla already has some plans of their own - and these plans seem to include Firefox domination in every possible field.
Mozilla has announced plans to develop Snowl, a Firefox extension that is intended to combine all your [...]