Source: mobile.yahoo.com

A revolutionary design

Yahoo Go! is the first application optimized for the “small screen” of a mobile phone that truly makes it easy and fun to access the Internet. Everything about the Yahoo! Go interface is designed to be both visually stunning and give you what you want with the fewest clicks possible.

At its core is the carousel, used to navigate intuitively among the various Yahoo! Go widgets: your own personal channels for email, local info & maps, news, sports, finance, entertainment, weather, Flickr™ photos and search. Simply use the carousel to scroll over to the widget you want. Since Yahoo! Go uses advanced caching and background loading technology, your widget content is automatically and continuously “pushed” to your phone, so it’s always right there when you want it. You don’t need to endure lengthy downloads or navigate loads of links to get to what you want.

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By: Vanessa Fox | Source: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

Google today took the Webmaster Central out of beta. The move shows commitment by Google to webmasters to provide tools and information they need about their sites. Since its launch in 2005, more than one million have joined Webmaster Central. According to Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:

"Our Valentine’s day gift: out of beta and adding comments.On Valentine’s Day, we want to show you that our commitment to you is stronger than ever. We’re taking webmaster tools out of beta and enabling comments on this blog."

Bye, bye beta
We’ve come a long way since our initial launch of the Sitemaps protocol in June 2005. Since then, we’ve expanded to a full set of webmaster tools, changed our name, listened to your input, and expanded even more. 2006 was a year of great progress, and we’re just getting started. Coming out of beta means that we’re committed to partnering with webmasters around the world to provide all the tools and information you need about your sites in our index. Together, we can provide the most relevant and useful search results. And more than a million of you, speaking at least 18 different languages, have joined in that partnership.

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By: Loren Baker | Source: searchenginejournal.com

The NoFollow link attribute (rel=”nofollow”) was originally created to block search engines from following links in blog comments, due to the amount of blog comment spamming.

The theory is that if spammers are spamming in blog comments to get better SEO and anchored links for their sites, NoFollow would render such spam useless. Problem is, spammers still spam.

Now, NoFollow has been adopted beyond blog comments. Wikipedia is now using NoFollow for external links and Google recommends that paid links use a NoFollow attribute.

Here are 13 reasons why NoFollow is a failure.

1. NoFollow = NoWorky. Using NoFollow in blog comments, the original intent of the tag, does nothing to discourage comment spammers. Using other anti-spamming tools such as question, math and plugins such as Akismet and SpamKarma for Wordpress is much more effective.

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