Yowazzup: A Directory of Happening Things

Google, as usual, changed it logos for the occasion while Yahoo! uses an animated Flash that will turn both it’s “O” into recycle symbols when you mouse over it while a plant will grow besides the letter, “Y” when you mouse over the logo for the first time.

If you realize, besides Google and Yahoo, YouTube has also changed its logo purposely for Earth Day. Seems like more and more web sites are creating awareness for Earth Day this time around.

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Good day and Happy Lunar New Year!

• Yahoo CEO, Jerry Yang said no decision yet on Microsoft bid to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion.
• Meanwhile, the officials said Ledger died of prescription drug abuse.
• Britney’s mom alleges manager controlled singer with drugs. Will Britney ends up like Ledger?

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Yahoo! new social networking site that replaces Yahoo! 360 is finally being revealed as Yahoo! Mash. In order to compete with Facebook and MySpace, Yahoo has come out with Yahoo! Mash which is like a combination of Facebook, MySpace, and My Yahoo.

You can drag and drop the existing modules of Flickr RSS, Ego Boost, Common Friends, MyMashLog, Blog Module (RSS 2.0), Asteroids, Astrology, PimpMyPet, Hover, Kaleidoscope to the main column or the right column. Many more other modules are also coming up, some of them include YouTube video, World of Warcraft Armory (show off your WoW character! I love this one!), Amazon Wishlist, Current eBay Listing, Twitter Status and more!

Yahoo! Mash

Unlike Facebook and MySpace, Yahoo! Mash enables you to edit your details in real-time without having to open up another page! Unlike Facebook, it actually lets you customize the background and use CSS to style your profile. And yes, you must have a Yahoo! account to join Yahoo! Mash, though currently it’s only by invitation. However it is, we all know Yahoo! Mash is heading towards the right way, and hopefully, not like its predecessor, Yahoo! 360.

The coolest thing? You can create a profile for your friend, edit the profile for him or her too! Of course, there is a privacy control - you can set who can edit your profile, who can view your profile and post your guestbook by setting “Only You”, “Some of My Friends”, “Best Friends”, “Family”, “All Friends” and “Anyone”.

Currently, it is only by invitation. To get invited, just post a comment on this post and I will send an invite to you.

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Happy Birthday, Google! Google turns 10 on September 15, 2007 but is already the heart of the Internet. Oddly, the news is brought to you by Yahoo! News.

• In other non-related news, Prince wants to sue YouTube.
• Tommy Lee and Kid Rock were asked to take part in a boxing match! It would be interesting if the match comes true.
• O.J. Simpson is a suspect in Vegas armed robbery.

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Good evening and Happy Ramadan!

• Kanye album is outselling 50 Cent. Does that mean 50 Cent will close shop?
• Yahoo and Bebo has secured a deal.
• Women played a bloodier soccer game than the men.
• Sir Alex Ferguson got attacked in London and suffers minor injuries. London’s the home for Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs - no doubt why the Man United boss is so hated there.
• Body Shop founder, Anita Roddick passed away at the age of 64. No, it’s not skin cancer; it’s brain hemorrhage.

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Yahoo! omg!

Yahoo! has started a new service simply called ‘omg!’. ‘omg!’ is a celebrities gossip/news site with text, photos and videos of the latest gossip/news. What can you expect from here? Definitely more than just Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.

Check out Yahoo! omg!

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Good afternoon. It’s a finger-licking good day!

• Good news for fast food lovers. KFC and Taco Bell has stopped using trans fat oils.
• In order to stay competitive to recent Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, Yahoo will buy the rest of Right Media.
• Does your Macbook has battery problems too?
• “Stone Cold” Steve Austin talks about his first movie, Condemned. Hell, yeah!

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Yahoo is announcing that all Yahoo Mail users will have free unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. The current storage limit is 1 GB per account (2 GB for $20/year premium users). With this change, Yahoo leapfrogs Gmail (2.8 GB and growing) and Live.com Mail (2GB). Yahoo mail currently has 250 million global users, more than any other online service (Live.com has 228 million and Gmail has 51 million users).

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Recently, Yahoo! launched a new service called Yahoo! Pipes. Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code.

In other words, Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant. Unlike most feed aggregator, Pipes offers output in RSS, RDF, JSON and Atom formats for maximum flexibility!

Recently, Pipes experienced some downtime due the unexpected heavy load of usage. However, Yahoo! are working on adding more capacity.

Check out Yahoo! Pipes today!

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For the past couple of years, Google and Yahoo! has been all over the Internet, especially in the online advertising industry while Microsoft continues to focus on the software side, battling with PS2 (and soon PS3) with its own console game, Xbox and challenging the MP3 market controlled by iPod with its new Zune. But, meanwhile Google and Yahoo! continues to acquire companies like Flickr, YouTube, Blogspot among others to strengthen their online presence towards Web 2.0 standard. Where does Microsoft stand with its ailing search engine? Will Microsoft ‘Live’ be able to battle with the Internet giants?

Shoemoney shares an insight of 10 reasons why Microsoft will acquire Yahoo in year 2007.

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