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Everyones Search For Britney Spears
Yahoo released their top searches for 2005 and for the third time in the last four years, Britney Spears tops the list.…
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Christmas Comes Early To Gmail
Google followed the addition of two new extensions for the Firefox browser with the announcement of two new features for the Gmail service.
Yahoo Opens New York Research Office
Yahoo has appointed Dr. Ron Brachman as vice president of worldwide research operations and opened a research office in NYC.
From RSS To My Media
So far only 4 percent of those polled say they use RSS (really simple syndication). Yahoo Senior Director of Personalization Products, Scott Gatz, says that number should be closer to 27 percent, as many use RSS and don't know it. Yahoo began publishing RSS feeds via Yahoo News and Yahoo Buzz back in 2003.
Microsoft, Google, Sun Get RAD
Joint collaboration on a Reliable, Adaptive and Distributive Systems lab at UC-Berkeley has the three tech companies contributing $7.5 million toward the lab's mission of creating freely-available web services.
A Standard Symbol for RSS?
One of the topics Shel and I discussed with Rick Klau of FeedBurner during our FIR podcast interview with him on Tuesday was about the challenges of helping 'normal' people understand what RSS is.
