Yahoo is taking their popular Yahoo Answers service social by introducing “Answers Network.” It works by allowing people to add their favorite members to a contacts list.  If you’ve asked a question and gotten help once from someone, chances are you’ll go back. If you found someone that answered your question especially well and made the extra effort to make it a thorough, complete answer, you’ll probably want to keep track of them to

Last week, the RIAA announced that they were taking a different route with college students who they accuse of downloading songs via P2P networks illegally. Instead of filing lawsuits and taking them to court right away, they were giving them a different option.  The RIAA set up a website where students could go to settle their case by paying a fine.

The one thing that was left out of

People have been anticipating the Netvibes Universal Widget API for quite a while now, and finally it’s been released. Now developers will be able to create Netvibes widgets that can be used as a Vista gadget, Mac Widget, or even used on your Google personalized homepage.This makes it easy to put your favorite widgets anywhere you’d like.

There are just a few widgets as of now, but I can imagine that the selection will

I was just going over a post made by Mozilla’s Calendar team that listed a bunch of bugs that have been fixed since the last release. Back in January we listed some new features that would be found in the next version of both Sunbird (the stand-alone application) and Lightning (the Thunderbird add-on).

As I was sifting through the list of bugs nothing really caught

Yahoo has spent some time redesigning their personalized homepage, My Yahoo to give it a new Web 2.0 look and feel.  It’s a private beta for now, but will be available to more people later on, and new features are expected as well.

Several years ago I created a personalized homepage with Yahoo, which at the time was hard to come by. Everybody seems to have personalized homepages today, but back then Yahoo was

Fun Friday

March Madness is here! If you’ve been following College Hoops, you’re probably wanting to get in on a pool for the College Basketball Tournament. There are lots of them all around the web and some of them offer pretty big prizes. Big names like Yahoo are in on it, even Social Network Facebook!

Here’s a quick overview of a few of the pools you get