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Update: Yahoo turned on the following apps in Yahoo Mail today: Evite, Pingg and drop.io.
Original Article: Yahoo made a few announcements today. Among them were new versions of Search, Messenger, and Mail. You can read about Search and Messenger here and here respectively. Now let’s talk about the new Yahoo Mail.
Plastic Logic has launched a new electronic newspaper reader similar to Amazon’s Kindle, but it’s about the size of a regular piece of copy paper. Like the Kindle, this reader utilizes E-Ink’s black and white display technology.
The ambitious project by Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, dubbed a Google challenger in search, elicited a tepid response from reviewers.
The publishers behind the venerable Physicians’ Desk Reference opened a new site for consumers based on the same information platform as the book.
Google may have this social networking thing down, after all – although it was just formally announced on Friday, a Google News app for Facebook already has almost 2,300 daily active users.
I’m not sure what constitutes a "coffee table" book in Mountain View, or wherever there might be another high concentration of Internet professionals, but an e-book on Google Analytics wouldn’t make the definition in my house. I prefer my etymological dictionary because I am an entirely different kind of geek.
Publishers will soon be able to define at what point in online videos their streaming AdSense ads will appear. Most will have to wait a little longer, however, as Google is testing the program in a closed pilot.
Umbria and PR Newswire have partnered on the launch of MediaSense Blog Measurement, for use by clients seeking insight into the buzz around their brands on the Internet.
The Topix.net News Search now covers news and blog results going back a year, and provides a capital way of searching through that index.
The successor to Microsoft’s MSN Spaces blogging service launched this week with an assortment of new features for its users.
