Source: updates.mail.yahoo.com

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Yahoo brings two services into an integrated communications package. Yahoo Mail beta users should start to see the Messenger functionality first discussed in November 2006.

Love, exciting and new
Come aboard, we’re expecting you…

Ryan Kennedy of yahoo said "At the Web 2.0 conference in November, we took the wraps off of one of our newest, coolest features: Yahoo! Messenger integrated with Yahoo! Mail Beta. But, that was just a preview of what was to come. Today, we will start to release this exciting new feature. But, we’ll be rolling out the feature gradually, so, unfortunately, not everyone will have access immediately.

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By: Carsten Cumbrowski | Source: searchenginejournal.com

The Nofollow attribute indicates if the source of the link “trusts” the destination of it. Trust is a very critical element in human relations and not one of the easiest.

Too much mistrust can lead to paranoia and isolation. Too much trust can lead to abuse and being taken advantage of. We learn from childhood that you have to learn to trust, but also have a “healthy” amount of suspicion and mistrust if it is justified.

This is often not a very rational process, but driven by instinct and emotion. Most people experience in their life’s at least ones that their strong trust was a mistake, which in some severe cases result in complete mistrust and paranoia.

The nofollow attribute demonstrates all this very nicely and I wonder if it did already or will become subject of psychological studies. Next to the extreme cases that lead to paranoia or too much trust on the other side are the majority of daily cases where the nofollow attribute causes “bad blood” among people. “What? You are using nofollow to link to my site? You don’t trust me? Okay, now I know what you really think about me.”

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