Yahoo! Glue Launches in America

Back in May, Yahoo launched a new variant of search entitled “Glue,” something which combines news, images, videos, and other content from around the Web (and other Yahoo properties) along with traditional search results that link to web pages.

An outbreak of wildfires in California’s Santa Barbara County has reached national news feeds and sparked Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency after the crisis in Montecito, quelled late on Friday by response units, was followed by a growing emergency in Sylmar.

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Online music and its controversies are unavoidable, and with no end of hunger for access to tunes, the market has been an evolving battleground. With mavericks (in the non-Palin sense) like the

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Many people decorate their workspace with pictures of their families. Often, these photos serve as a good conversation piece. But, what if you could have a life-sized cutout of your kids, playing sports? That’s where StickyFan comes in.

Is it time to put your portfolio online? Portfolio Monkey thinks it is, offering a set of tools for managing your portfolio on the web.

Citysearch is finally coming around to replacing its creaking site design with something a little more contemporary. Today, it is launching in a major rethink of its entire site in beta that drills deeper into neighborhoods, uses Facebook Connect as an optional identity system, and lets users vote reviews up and down. The beta will quickly become the default Citysearch experience. During a demo at IAC headquarters yesterday, Citysearch CEO Jay Herratti told me:

Jeff Bonforte never met an API he didn’t like. The CEO of Xobni, a startup that makes an outlook plug-in that makes your e-mail smarter, has been busy getting his team of engineers to integrate every possible API they can think of into the service. Xobni already added LinkedIn last June.

It’s wonderful to see people doing what they love. Jay Maynard, for instance, loves dressing up in spandex and turning on his Tron lights for all and sundry. Sure, he’s no Eva Longaria but isn’t it great to know that Microsoft has this guy on their side? He could literally blow up Master Apple in a few minutes with a well-placed discus throw.

Yelp’s Google Analytics stats for the past thirty days show 15.8 million unique visitors, way above the six million Comscore records. And Yelp also shows other interesting stats in the chart below: 4 million reviews, with 34% restaurants, 23% shopping, 8% beauty and fitness, etc. Users are 51% male and 49% female, and 65% have a college degree.

When I first saw this I thought “Where have you been all my life?” Then I realized the answer: In 1.x iPhone and iTouc.

By using ultra-fine polymer fibers, military researchers have been able to regrow damaged or missing organs and limbs. They will announce their findings officially next month at the 26th Army Science Conference in Florida.

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delhi ABC and CNN took the top two spots in the US presidential race

ABC and CNN took the top two spots in the US presidential race ratings battle as a combined 71 million viewers tuned in for Barack Obama's historic

Jerry Yang Email To All Yahooers: 10% Of You Are Fired

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent the email below to all Yahoo’ers at 2:20 pm PST, after earnings were announced. Besides being all lowercase, as usual, he lets everyone know that the company will be letting 10% of employees go to help save $400 million in annual costs. Jerry Yang, of course, will not be among the layoffs.

The Future of Web 3.0 According to Yahoo!

At the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo in Santa Clara today, Dave Beckett (principal software architect at Yahoo!) and Tom Hughes-Croucher (technical evangelist, Yahoo! Developer Network), answered questions about the recent consumer release of Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) and discussed the company's future plans to open up almost everything.

Report: Social Web Usage Tipped in 2008

A new report by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research states that usage of social technologies increased markedly in 2008: three in four US online adults now use social tools to connect with each, up from 56% in 2007. According to the report, the largest growth came from ratings and reviews, "voting" on websites, and user-generated video. Blogging and tagging were also popular.

LinkedIn: $75.7 Million in Series D with Follow-on

LinkedIn, a social networking juggernaut by anyone's standards and one of the few successful social sites targeted at business users, announced today that the company had secured an additional $22.7 million in Series D funding. The investment brings its grand total for Series D to $75.7 million.

New football kid Chhetri

Sunil Chhetri leads a talented young crop of players who give Indian football a reason to hope.

Beijing's big bang

As the Chinese capital gets ready for the 29th Olympic Games, they are calling it 'Beijingoism', the collective will of 1.3 billion people to top the gold medal table ahead of their arch rival, the United States.

The second chance hero

As repechage is introduced for the first time in Olympics wrestling, an Indian turns his luck to bag a bronze medal.

Flexing their muscles

India sent its biggest boxing contingent-five young men-to scale their sport's Great Wall: the Olympics. Three of them got to within eight minutes of that elusive first medal while one became his sport's barrier breaker.

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Lexmark offers new laser printers from $199

The new E Series monochrome laser printers all feature 1200 x 1200 dot per inch (DPI) resolution. Lexmark touts the new laser printers’ environmental sensitivity: they’re all capable of two-sided printing, include an “instant warm-up” fuser which saves energy when not in use, “eco-mode,” which reduces power consumption, and are part of Lexmark’s Cartridge Collection recycling program.

I’ve Got Good News and Bad News - Mashable

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks, and an interesting day, too, as it turns out. As I alternate this evening between scrolling through the editorial inbox, the corporate newsfeeds, it’s hard not to notice a couple of seemingly diametrically opposed trends taking place. As is expected from the climate of fear that came as a result of Sequoia’s “RIP Good Times” slide deck and the monumental losses last week on Wall Street, many web firms are laying off staff.

Google Asking Their Advertisers To Publicly Support Yahoo Search Deal

A reader, Darrin (from ReverseMortgageGuides), who says he spends about $100,000/month on Google adwords received a voicemail from a Cleary Gottlieb lawyer named Donald Burke. Burke says he’s representing Google in the Yahoo advertising deal. The message, linked below (with part of the phone number toned out), says: “Hi Darren my name is Donald Burke. I’m calling on behalf of Google to talk with Adwords advertisers about the new proposed Google/Yahoo Advertising Agreement. If you have a couple of minutes to talk with me, my number is…Thanks very much. Take care.”

5 Early Recommendation Technologies That Could Shake Up Their Niches - ReadWriteWeb

International recommendation technology provider Strands has announced the five finalists in the Strands $100K Call for Recommender Start-Ups. From music to video to pharmaceutical drug development recommendations, these plucky startups from all around the world will now present at the Association for Computing Machinery's Recommender Systems 2008 conference in Switzerland and one will be offered a $100k investment from Strands.

Dylan Tube | Blog Search Engine

I have said it once and I will say it again – musicians these days do not seem to compare much to the musicians of old. It’s not that we do not get good music today but I have to admit that majority of new music today do not have the lasting value that music decades ago have. Take for example Bob Dylan, who was part of that generation of musicians who was able to leave their own legacy. His music spans generation. Dylan Tube is a testament of his legacy. A blog that is all about Dylan, his music, life, and performances, Dylan Tube is maintained by a relatively young person. Expect a lot of footage in the blog – something that Dylan fans will certainly enjoy.

VertExpress | Blog Search Engine

Skiing season is almost upon us and I know that a lot of people have been looking forward to it. I also know that there are some worries about the quality of the snow and that the services offered may suffer because of environmental problems. If you are a ski enthusiast and you are looking forward to the upcoming season, you might want to do some research on what is in store for you. VertExpress is a blog which features some of the best places to go for skiing. There are rankings and a lot of photos which you get a lot of information from.

Macworld | Adobe ships Creative Suite 4

CS4 includes updated versions of InDesign, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Soundbooth, OnLocation and Encore. The apps are also bundled into several collections, targeted to different segments of the market

Personal Finance Site Mint Opens to The Public With New Features - Mashable

It seems that pretty much everyone who deals with personal finance has decided that this is the day for announcements. They’re right. The stock market seems to be ready for another upward rally, and the overall interest in investing, saving, or simply making the most out of the situation has never been bigger.

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Will Apple's Rumored $800 Notebook Be a Netbook?

Only Apple personnel and a few others really know what Apple will unveil at Tuesday's town hall special event at Cupertino with the "focus on notebooks"

Macworld | Bento 2 adds integration with Apple Mail

FileMaker on Tuesday released a major update for Bento, adding integration with Apple Mail and improving data exchange between the personal database application and the Excel and Numbers spreadsheet programs

Dealzmodo: Free iPhone Games from Hudson

Hudson, makers of Bomberman and Mario Party, among others, is giving away three of their games for the iPhone platform for free. Aqua Forest, Neo Same Game, and Catch the Egg are all available at no cost for the length of the Tokyo Game Show, which means you've got until October 12th to snatch up some worthwhile freebies. [Thanks, Kevin K.!] Update: The giveaway appears to be over. Hope you got it while the getting was good.

iPhone Gems: Pool, Puzzle, Music Slots Games | iLounge Article

Last week’s iPhone Gems games column focused mostly on “games with balls,” and by reader request, this week’s is a sequel: we start by looking at three more iPhone/iPod touch billiards titles, several more ball-themed games, and a few other interesting titles.

MOO's Business Card API And The Mashups Made With It - ReadWriteWeb

The popular and quirky MOO.com is a print shop providing stickers, postcards, business cards and personal introduction cards, which are narrower and longer cards. The products can feature artistic images you select from the site's offerings or can be printed using photos you upload to the service. Notable for promoting the artwork of hip designers, the MOO service is a favorite among the young and hip as well as among those who want to stand out as being non-traditional.

RjDj Generates An Awesome, Trippy Soundtrack For Your Life

RjDj, a new iPhone application that was released earlier this week, is one of the coolest things I’ve seen released on the still fledgling platform. Download it now, if only to try it for a few minutes. You can download the full version for $2.99 here, or you can try out the free version (which only has one ’scene’).

Brightcove Is Already Streaming “Several Hundred Million” Videos A Month. Now Comes Brightcove 3.

A couple days ago, we posted some leaked screenshots of Brightcove 3, the completely gutted and rebuilt Web video platform from Brightcove that is launching on Tuesday. I was able to catch up with Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire, who gave me an update on the company and took me through all the changes in the service.

Stealth Semantic Startup Raises $8.5 Million, Won’t Tell Us Anything

I had a phone call late last week with a semantic startup called Siri that was spun out of SRI International (the birthplace of the computer mouse and the LCD screen, among many other important technologies). Most startups are willing to talk about their products “off the record” but this one wouldn’t divulge much beyond the fact that they’ve raised $8.5 million in Series A funding from Menlo Ventures and Morganthaler.

Slashdot | National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit

"The National Debt Counter, erected in 1989 when the U.S. debt was 'merely' a tiny $2.7 trillion, has been moving so much that it recently ran out of digits to display the ballooning figure: $10,150,603,734,720, or roughly $10.2 trillion, as of Saturday afternoon. To accommodate the extra '1,' the clock was hacked: the '1' from "$10.2" has been moved left to the LCD square once occupied solely by the digital dollar sign. A non-digital, improvised dollar sign has been pasted next to the '1.' It will be replaced in 2009 with a new clock able to track debt up to a quadrillion dollars, which is a '1' followed by 15 zeros. That should be good enough for a few more months at least, I believe."

Slashdot | People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars

"Researchers from the University of Vienna asked 20 males and 20 females to rank vehicles based on their appearance. The list of traits included arrogant, afraid, agreeable, disgusted, extroverted, sad, and others. Cars with 'meaner' traits (such as BMW) ranked higher, whereas cars with 'nicer' traits (such as Toyota's Prius) ranked lower. With billions spent on developing new products in the automobile industry, this could spur a trend in meaner-looking cars and perhaps explain why sales of the Prius and other green cars are slow to take off with average consumers."

Slashdot | YouTube Adds Full-Length Television Shows

"YouTube has moved to put full-length television shows on its site for the first time. Historically, YouTube has hosted a bewildering and attractive variety of video clips, the vast majority of which have been under ten minutes in length. YouTube has announced that it had finalized a deal with CBS to offer shows such as Star Trek, MacGyver, Beverly Hills 90210, and The Young and the Restless. I can't wait to watch The Young and the Restless!"

Slashdot | OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here

"After a grinding three-year development cycle, the OpenOffice.org team has finally squeezed out a new release. New features include support for the controversial Microsoft OOXML file format, multi-page views in Writer, and PDF import via an extension. Linux Format has an overview of the new release, asking the question: is it really worth the 3.0 label?"

Miles to go ...: Typo on GlassFish v3 - Ruby-on-Rails Blogging Engine

Typo is an open-source Blogging Engine written using Ruby-on-Rails framework. It provides a lean engine that makes blogging easy. It's main attribtues are ease of use, usability, beauty and excellent support of web standards.

louisgray.com: The Future of Social Media Is Mobile, Unified and Transparent

This morning, I had the pleasure of taking part in a podcast with Wayne Sutton and Kipp Bodnarf for their Talk Social News program. During the conversation, we discussed how to find time to participate in multiple social networks, how today's technology luddites might some day consume information, using RSS, and what the recent economic turbulence means for today's startups and tomorrow's entrepreneurs.