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Yahoo has introduced a new version of the Yahoo Toolbar today. It runs on Internet Explorer 6+ and Firefox (as a beta).
"The new Yahoo! Toolbar now offers greater customization and more immediate access to the information you care about most from across the entire web – not just Yahoo! sites," says Burke Culligan, Senior Director of Yahoo Front Doors.
Isn’t there something just inherently ‘Internet-y’ in speculating about what the future will bring? Personally, I always enjoy chatting with smart web-savvy internet folks about where we are headed with ‘this’ or ‘that’ in the future.
At SMX Advanced in Seattle this year I asked Rebecca Lieb about what she is reading in the tea leaves insofar as search is concerned. Here are a few key concepts I considered the big takeaways from the discussion.
UPDATE: It appears that iTunes is back up and running…we’ll let you know if anything changes.
The iTunes Activation server is currently down as a result of the iPhone OS 3.0 update.
Is the iPhone OS 3.0 worth all of this headache? Tell us.
Google has posted a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page for publishers who either have their content picked up by Google News or are looking to do so. On the page Google answers questions regarding acceptance, content inclusion, sitemaps, and errors.
The Associated Press (AP) is saying it hopes to negotiate more lucrative licensing deals with major web sites. Reporting for the AP itself, Michale Liedtke says that AP CEO Tom Curley discussed possible revenue initiatives to protect online content.
Here are some key facts from the Liedtke’s piece:
Suppose, for Father’s Day, you got dear old Dad some new power tools, and he then had trouble adjusting to them. One way of speeding up the acclimation process could involve trashing the old ones, right? Now, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook seems to have created a similar situation.
During the madness of last nights TweetDeck iPhone app release, TweetDeck quietly released a new version of their popular desktop app.
Oh, and the new release has loads of new features.
Manage multiple Twitter with TweetDeck.
Manage all your Twitter accounts from TweetDeck without switching between them.
It appears that North Carolina is about to follow New York’s lead and implement a tax collection scheme that will see Amazon.com shut down its Associates affiliate program in the state. Today, all Amazon Associates in NC received this gloomy email from the online retailer:
There is no question that people are putting a lot more of themselves out there online these days with the rise of social media. At this point, it seems that generations will be born into this lifestyle. Who knows what other tools/services will be popular in the future?
The SEO industry has only seen one constant — change. The well known proverb, "change is the only constant" should be stenciled somewhere near all our desks. Sometimes the change is wanted, and sometimes not.
A specific aspect of SEO that has seen a lot of change is blended search. Jill Kocher of Practical-eCommerce wrote about her concern regarding blended search and e-commerce…
