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MyBlogLog, A Yahoo Service

And they lost my avatar when I merged with my Yahoo account. For a while, I was a gray smiley face. I have have my full name next to my avatar. Other than that, I haven’t noticed anything else.

Facebook opens its pages

WSJ.com

This idea is brilliant. The article says:

For instance, an online retailer could build a service in Facebook to let people recommend music or books to their friends, based on the relationships they’ve already established on the site.

I know so many people through social networks constantly struggling with how to make money online. Yet these same people are really a passionate about different and various websites and products. And this passion spread like a virus through the online community. Having companies approach users to make money by doing what they already do is a win, win situation.
Many new stories make it to the internet before the tv and these vigilant bloggers are starting to get their props. It’s time retail companies give props to what has too long been free advertising.

Yahoo courts Facebook to the tune of $1 billion

Yahoo courts Facebook to the tune of $1 billion
Facebook is in the advanced stages of talks with Yahoo over acquisition plans nearing $1 billion, but the deal is not done yet.

A billion. Yes, that is 1 and 9 zeroes. Jackpot for the Fackbook developers. Of course I know nothing about them. But this seems to be nothing in the internet world. Murdoch coming in and buying MySpace is nothing. These high dollar buying and selling of websites is common place or so it seems.