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Mark Cuban’s Plan To Choke Google’s Super Powers
10:58PM Danny Allen | Musing on his blog, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks has thrown out a crazy idea for Microsoft. Instead of spending billions promoting Bing, what if they paid the top 1000 sites a million bucks to de-list from Google? More »
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Geocities Is Dead, Long Live Geocities
12:48AM Adam Frucci | Today’s the day: Yahoo has officially killed the once-ubiquitous free hosting service, taking down thousands of the ugliest and least-updated pages on the web. It’s really the end of an era. A moment of silence, please. [ComputerWorld via Daily What]
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Yahoo’s “Hack Day” Lap Dancers Get The Web’s Panties In A Twist
6:15AM Danny Allen | Ruh oh! Yahoo has been forced to apologise after hiring scantily clad dancers for its “Hack Day” in Taiwan last weekend. The pictures (pretty tame, but not necessarily SFW) are from a now-removed video posted on its Developer Network Blog. More »
Gadgets
Remainders — Things We Didn’t Post
1:00PM Wilson Rothman | Hey Keith Richards, What’s Dangling From Your Ear?…Yahoo Tells Firefox Users to Pick “Safer” IE8…Kodak Admits It Has a Product Naming Problem…An Apple TV People Might Actually Want…Nokia, Cellular Equipment Maker to the Evil Doers… More »
Phones
5:20AM Matt Buchanan | Push. It’s not just a verb that sends people careening down a flight of stairs. It’s also not just for guys in suits diddling on BlackBerrys. You hear it featured on new iPhone apps every week. So, what is it? More »
Giz Explains: What’s This Push Business?
5:20AM Matt Buchanan | Push. It’s not just a verb that sends people careening down a flight of stairs. It’s also not just for guys in suits diddling on BlackBerrys. You hear it featured on new iPhone apps every week. So, what is it? More »
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No More Excuses, Grandpa: Gmail Now Imports Mail and Contacts from Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL
10:35PM John Herrman | In an effort to scoop up some of those people who are tethered to their current webmail services by nothing except the sheer inconvenience of switching, Google has implemented easy migration tools for straggling Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL users. The service does their current POP3 import feature one better, grabbing contacts as well. The feature should roll out to everyone within a few days. [Gmail Blog] More »
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In the Online Equivalent of Crude Bathroom Graffiti, Is the Bathroom Responsible?
12:00AM Dan Nosowitz | After her jackass ex-boyfriend created fake profiles on Yahoo! to persuade other men to call her repeatedly for sexual favours, Cecilia Barnes found little help from Yahoo! in having them removed. More »
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If You Become a Yahoo Engineer, You Too Can Have 7 Monitors on Your Desk
5:59AM Matt Buchanan | This is Yahoo engineer and photographer Jeremy Johnstone’s cubicle. I count four HDTVs, three Apple Cinema Displays and one MacBook Air. That’s a lot of screens! Is it like that at every Yahoo’s desk??? More »
Gadgets
Japanese Billboards Scans You, Display Stuff You Want to Buy
7:40AM Gizmodo US Edition | A new generation of billboards displays ads suited for the individual tastes of each passerby. I can’t wait to walk by one of these and see commercials for cheeseburgers and useless Japanese gadgets. More »
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