Back in February we told you about Yahoo Buzz, a service Yahoo pushed into beta that you could easily compare to Digg. Yahoo described it as a new way for people to tell everybody what they thought was cool and in the process, help make Yahoo.com even better. Yahoo Buzz tries to determine the best stories on the web based upon votes, emails and searches. Because it was beta when it launched, they

Yahoo has just launched Fire Eagle out of beta, a platform that makes it easy for people to share their location. It's not a social network, rather they make it possible for existing services including social networks, to incorporate your location. They also have a mobile version available so that when you are on the go, you can easily update your location, or hide yourself which

Yahoo is taking advantage of SearchMonkey widgets to automatically provide more elaborate search results to their users. It wasn't that long ago (a few months) that Yahoo decided to start using the SearchMonkey technology in the first place, allowing developers to create SearchMonkey applications to better the Yahoo search experience. At the time when they announced this they said they'd be opening a "sandbox" where programmers could test their apps and then eventually

Yahoo has decided that now is the perfect time to drop the beta tag from My Yahoo! Over the last year or so, users have had the option of using the new My Yahoo with a completely new look, feel, and features. It was still in the "beta" phase which meant that Yahoo was requesting feedback and tweaking things to make it just right. On the My Yahoo! Blog, they made the announcement that

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A few weeks ago I received an email from the developer of a Windows application called gAttach, and it looked pretty cool. At the time, however, the program was new and I wanted to give it some time to mature before I gave it a whirl. Since then it has had a

In one of Bill Gates' last interviews before he left Microsoft at the end of June, he said that a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo wasn't likely to happen. He was speaking with Tom Brokaw of NBC news and was asked, "Do you think in a year from now, when you're down at the foundation offices, you'll look up at Microsoft and see Yahoo as a