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Yahoo’s Twitter – Yahoo Meme
For a long time Yahoo was in Search Engine business but now they are in Twitter business too. Yeah its true Yahoo inc is making a clone of Twitter named Yahoo Meme. The word meme is popular among bloggers and they used to tag people on this meme posts.
Still the English version of the site is under alpha version (that means only the inside developers and testing team will get to test). We can hope in near future Yahoo will release the product in beta (Where external users will be allowed to test).
You can register your email address for beta testers list. I’ve already done so. Once the product is available or opened for the public we can have another post here about the pros and cons about Yahoo Meme.
Some sites are telling Yahoo Meme will have more features than Twitter where you get to upload pictures along with your Meme (You can’t call it Twit 
) and instead of a avatar you can have 100 character text.
Lets wait and see how the Yahoo going to acquire micro blogging market.
Vark.com – Q&A community (With 100 Invitations)
You Got a Question
When we have questions, we usually go ask from friends, online forums, Yahoo answers. But what about asking your question on IM (Yahoo / Gtalk) and some person who knows the answer replies you via IM again. The person who replied you may be or may be not a friend of yours.
Vark.com (Branded as Aardvark) is network of IM friends who is willing to help others. I’ll give you a typical example.
How Aardvark works
You’ve a question about movie tickets in Colombo, so you tell your question to Aardvark.
- You: How to find movie tickets in Colombo?
- Now Aardvark will look for someone who knows about Colombo
- Once Aardvark found someone who knows about Colombo, It’ll pass the question to the user.
- User answers: http://www.ticketslk.com/
- Aardvark will now show you the answer http://www.ticketslk.com/
Pretty cool huh?
Pros and Cons
I usually try questions regarding books, especially about comics. I’ll get good number of responses. Usually you’ll get good number of responses for IT, Tech related stuffs but you’ll get less number of responses for localized questions.
For an example if you ask a question about English or Google you’ll get good number answers but if you ask a question about Tamil or Sinhala then you’ll hardly get a question.
If you take Yahoo Answers, it’s one of the biggest communities available online. Compare to Yahoo Answers, Aardvark community is small.
But it’s very easy and convenient to ask a question in Gtalk / MSN window and getting the answer instantly. Believe me, Yahoo or Google can’t answer all your questions but Aardvark can answer most of the questions.
Whenever you ask questions, they were archived with the answers. So later you can go to their history page and refer the questions and answers. Also you can re-submit a question to the Aardvark community if you’re not happy with the answer.
Spirit of the Community
If you’re in a community you make use of it while helping it. What I mean is you can help the Aardvark community by answering others questions. In your profile page you can add tags. These tags will be used to identify your field of expertise.
If you tag “Google” then when someone got a question about Google, it’ll be shown to you. I have been using Aardvark network for about six months but they’ve never started to spam me. So don’t worry they won’t start to spam your IM client 
Invitation (100 only)
They’re still running on Beta and allowing limited amount of users inside. If you wanna check it out now itself, you may try the invitation link.
Once you join the network you’ll also be given invitation links, so you can also invite your friends to the world of Aardvark.
Vista and Yahoo Messenger – Deadly Combination
It’s been ages since I had problem with Yahoo messenger and Live Messenger. Earlier every time I tried to log into the messenger, I was bumped back. I was so tired and found a short term solution for this problem.
But it didn’t help for a long time and I was tired of this mess and most of the time either I used Skype or I used web based messenger services.
Later with time I learned all these messes caused by firewall of Vista. It’s a total failure. After couple of days I installed Kaspersky and it gained control of the firewall and Vita’s crazy firewall disabled.
Now it’s working fine. No problem at all. Thanks to Kaspersky and I’m cursing Vista for the mess up. I’m sure if you switch off your firewall you’ll be able to log into yahoo messenger.
[UPDATED] Yahoo’s Messenger in FaceBook – Official
Earlier I wrote about how Google is getting addicted to Twitter. Now Yahoo getting addicted to FaceBook. Yahoo officially releases a facebook application to access yahoo messenger in facebook.
To add a Pingbox to your page, visit the Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox application page on Facebook. The same customization tools are available in the Facebook version, so you can personalize your online and offline greeting, choose from dozens of designs, and if you wish, require your visitors to give themselves a nickname before they can IM you.
With the Pingbox app, your friends can IM you from your profile page even when you’re not on Facebook.
Earlier this week I wrote about how to add Yahoo Messenger to your Facebook profile. It’ll enable the profile visitors to chat with you via yahoo messenger, even though they are not signed into Yahoo Messenger.
People have complained yahoo that they are always shown as offline even when they are online. This is because your Yahoo! network presence being set to show you as offline.
To fix it, be sure you’re logged into the Yahoo! network (e.g. you see your name up at the top of a Yahoo! page) and then click the link below. Hitting that link will toggle your online presence back to “on”. Your Pingbox will then show you as being available when you’re online in Yahoo! Messenger. Note that you’ll only show as online in your Pingbox when you’re signed into Yahoo! Messenger 9.0, Yahoo! Messenger for Mac, or Yahoo! Messenegr for the Web. Signing in on a mobile device or to IM in Yahoo! Mail will not show you as available on your Pingbox.
IMPORTANT: Changing your Yahoo! network presence to online also means that you will be shown as online within other Yahoo! sites such as Yahoo! Groups, message boards etc. – anywhere the online presence indicator (
/
) appears within different Yahoo! products.
http://presence.msg.yahoo.com/edit/config/edit_identity?.set=1&.opi=0
Note: After you click the above link, you’ll be taken to a blank, white page. That is by design. You won’t see any visual confirmation of the change.
There will be NO Yahoo briefcase in Future!!!
Yahoo briefcase is one of the file sharing and storing site managed by Yahoo Inc. Yahoo has decided to bring down this service from March onwards.
Yahoo Briefcase
If you have any files stored on Yahoo briefcase, then it’s time to back them all. Check out the mail that I received from Customer care.
Dear Yahoo! Briefcase user,
We will officially close Yahoo! Briefcase on March 30, 2009. Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to download your files back to your computer. You need to take action before we close, after which any files remaining on Yahoo! Briefcase will be deleted and no longer accessible.
To access your Yahoo! Briefcase account, click the link below:
If you are a Yahoo! Briefcase Premium subscriber, your current subscription will be cancelled on March 30, 2009. We will refund the unused portion of your Premium subscription, if any. The refund will appear as a credit via the billing method we have on file for you. So please make sure that your billing information is correct and up-to-date. For more information, please visit https://billing.yahoo.com.For additional information or to review a list of our frequently asked questions, click the link below:
We appreciate your being a Yahoo! Briefcase user.Sincerely,
Yahoo! Customer Support
Yahoo Messenger Sign-in Problems??
Have you got sign-in problems in Yahoo Messenger 9? Yahoo has investigated on this issue by directly contacting Yahoo Messenger users in USA and Canada. Yesterday they’ve come up with a solution and the bug fix is available in the latest build which you can download now.
Sign-in Problems
As per Yahoo, this fix won’t help all the sign-in problems but it’ll help out considerable number of users, who can’t sign-into yahoo messenger.
Also on 28th Yahoo has introduced yahoo IM and SMS in Classic mail. It’s going to be fun with yahoo classic as we can chat even in classic.
Hope yahoo will come up with such products in future to challenge his rival Google
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Yahoo asia mail server down
UPDATE: After 15 mins servers are up and running 
Today I was trying to access but getting the following error message again and again. This is why I love Gmail. Gmail is very pleasant look, easy to work interface and very fast too.
Seems, even the yahoo’s servers are not steady. Those who buy hosting on yahoo, you better be careful.
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Yahoo rejects Microsoft’s Bid
Finally yahoo announces that Microsoft has undervalued their company. I got the following news from yahoo press room
After careful evaluation, the Board believes that Microsoft’s proposal substantially undervalues Yahoo! including our global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments. The Board of Directors is continually evaluating all of its strategic options in the context of the rapidly evolving industry environment and we remain committed to pursuing initiatives that maximize value for all stockholders.
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