Yahoo Buzz, the Digg like social content rating website from Yahoo is now open to all. Earlier, this service was available to only selected 400 publishers. Now anyone can submit a story on Yahoo Buzz and if it gets featured on front page of Yahoo Buzz, it could drive enormous amount of Traffic to the publisher just like Digg.

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Do you want to build your own search engine?? If yes then Yahoo has something in for you. Yahoo has recently launched BOSS(Build Your Own Search Service) its open search web service platform. This will allow people to build their own search engines based on Yahoo’s techonology. Basically Yahoo is trying to push google back by generating more and more search engines and thus expanding its add network.

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My Yahoo is back, with a cool new redesigned interface. My Yahoo, the leading customised homepage provider, has been in its beta for over a year but was available only to selected users but now the redesigned interface is there for all users.

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The microsoft-yahoo deal which was said to be dead a few weeks ago, isn’t really dead. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn a major shareholder of yahoo has written an open letter to the shareholders of yahoo in which he has discussed his meeting with Steve Ballmer CEO of microsoft. According to him microsoft is still interested in an agreement with yahoo but the deal can be done only if a new yahoo board is elected. This was also confirmed by microsoft.

Read Icahn’s Letter

Read Microsoft’s Statement

The title might sound scary to most of the readers but it seems like Yahoo, the world leader in providing free web based e-mail services has advanced its first step towards our fears.

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Here is a good news for those of you unhappy with their Yahoo! Mail usernames. Yahoo will be launching two new domain names ymail.com and rocketmail.com to allow users to get their favorite usernames. As Yahoo! Mail has been there for past decade and is one of most popular Mail service since it started, now a days, it is almost impossible to get a Yahoo Mail username of your choice.

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Gone are the days when you need to find hacks to IM your friends on Yahoo! Messenger from Google Talk and vice-versa. Very soon, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk will be able to talk to each other as both have decided to make instant messaging interoperable.

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Jumpcut is a free online video sharing service from yahoo that lets you create and share video clips. Using Jumpcut, you can combine clips, photographs and audio to make your own video.

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Relax your hand a bit by using cozy keyboard instead of mouse for using Yahoo! Mail. Here are some useful keyboard shortcuts for Yahoo Mail which let you roll through Yahoo Mail like a breeze.

1. Check for new mail in Inbox
To check for mail in Inbox press m on your keyboard. It’ll open your Inbox if it’s not open or it’ll check for new mail if it’s already open. Using Shift + m checks your mail including all POP accounts. This can be extremely useful in case you are eagerly waiting for arrival of a mail and repeatedly checking your mailbox.

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