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Yahoo GeoCities closes on Oct. 26

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:28:59 +0000

, once the Internet's third most visited domain , will be shutting down on Oct. 26, taking with it thousands of user home pages and decades of data. All that information will be history.... Fortunately, some historians are making sure it's not lost to the annals of time. Founded in 1994 as ...

Madshrimps News RSS Feed found this 13 days ago on blogs.computerworld.com

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Yahoo deletes GeoCities today

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:26:49 +0000

Yahoo is today permanently deleting all content on the mid-nineties web publishing service GeoCities, with the loss of around 10 terabytes of data.

jamie posted 12 days ago from feedproxy.google.com

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Ubuntu 9.10 Feature Tour

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:26:00 +0000

Email and chat Chat with friends and colleagues through Empathy which integrates: Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Jabber, AOL, QQ and many more. Evolution gives you email, an address book and a calendar and works well with colleagues and friends using MS Outlook. Browse the ...

Ars Technica found this 9 days ago on ubuntu.com

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Microsoft, Yahoo delay finalizing search deal

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Microsoft and Yahoo have postponed finalizing their search deal, according to an October 28 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The companies intended to complete the deal by October 27, but have apparently run into some issues. "Given the complex nature of the transaction, ...

juliofranco posted 8 days ago from techspot.com

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Microsoft and Yahoo Need a Bit More Time to Negotiate a Deal

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:26:58 +0000

In a filing with the SEC, Yahoo said more time is needed to complete the search and advertising deal with Microsoft. The two sides had agreed in late July to have everything squared away by October 27, but hammering out the details of a long term deal is taking longer than expected. "The ...

willsmith posted 9 days ago from maximumpc.com

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GeoCities' time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:26:10 +0000

Yahoo has closed GeoCities, a once-dominant service that allowed anyone to create a free website.

Maximum PC found this 12 days ago on latimesblogs.latimes.com

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White House Website Switches to Open-Source Drupal

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:19:38 +0000

If it's good enough for Maximum PC, then it's good enough for the White House. What are we talking about? Open-source Drupal software. Citing an Obama Administration source, PersonalDemocracy.com notes that the WhiteHouse.gov website has kicked its proprietary content management system (CMS) ...

willsmith posted 12 days ago from maximumpc.com

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Yahoo permanently shuts down Geocities

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:30:00 +0000

A few months ago it was revealed that Yahoo had sealed the fate of GeoCities, one of the pioneers of the emerging Internet years ago. Fifteen years of service came to a halt when Yahoo told everyone still using the service that it would be shutting down, encouraging them to move on to something ...

juliofranco posted 12 days ago from techspot.com

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Yahoo Mail outages plague some users

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:58:49 +0000

Yahoo Mail users reported problems Monday morning, with the service inaccessible for some and spotty for others. TechCrunch noticed a Twitter spike in reports of problems with Yahoo Mail, and another company called Downrightnow also reported problems accessing the service over the last ...

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YouTube Wants Users to Know They'll Need Google Accounts Soon

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:40:50 +0000

Maybe it’s something to freak out about, then maybe it’s not. The New York Times is reporting that YouTube will be phasing out its own accounts and requiring its members to use a Google login . Freaky? Yeah, says the Times. Each social networking service develops its own culture. When ...

willsmith posted 9 days ago from maximumpc.com

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