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IM + Facebook + Email = Digsby

February 7, 2008 By 5 Comments

Digsby is a new multi-network IM (AIM, ICQ, WLM, Jabber, GTalk, Yahoo) that also integrates your email and social network accounts on Facebook and Myspace. It’s in private beta, but this site has screenshots, initial impressions, and invites. read more | digg story

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Yahoo! Acquires WebJay (and a KM digression)

January 10, 2006 By 2 Comments

O’reilly Radar reports that Yahoo! has made another acquisition in their drive to transform the company’s web properties into a Web 2.0 über-community. This time it’s the music playlist community Webjay created by Lucas Gonze. Yahoo! seems determined to be a player in the Web 2.0 world, and they just might succeed. danah boyd writes: [...]

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Yahoo Maps Leapfrogs Google

January 4, 2006 By 1 Comment

I’ve been a big fan of Google Maps ever since it’s public release. The graphics are great. The ability to pan is cool. The API makes for some really neat mashups. Yes, Google Maps are fabulous, but the beta of Yahoo Maps is better. If you’ve used Yahoo Maps before, the “old” service is still [...]

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