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Yahoo's board of directors emerged from the annual meeting this past Friday still intact. Very few of the shareholders raised any kind of questions about the director's rejection of Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid, showing that the board still has their trust.

Is this the end of Microsoft's bid to get Yahoo? I think not but it may be a little while before we hear more from them. Yahoo as a company has made some serious mistakes over the last couple of years and they are digging their own grave.

Look for example at Meedio. An up and coming HTPC application and front end that was being actively developed. Yahoo! buys it and turns it into shit. Maybe it's just that I was a Meedio user, actually a Meedio purchaser as well. The folks that sold out to Yahoo! made a big mistake and alienated the biggest portion of it's user base.

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This is also being posted at a couple of my other sites as well. So there is a new Twitter clone out there called Identi.ca Still too early to see if it's going to be used more than Twitter but I signed up and will try to start posting updates. Twitter has had so many issues over the last few months that there was bound to be something coming along. Hopefully some of the other apps and web sites I use that allow Twitter integration will also start using Identi.ca soon as well. My profile on Identi.ca is here. Check out some of the articles listed below in the Related Articles are as well for more of an in-depth look at Identi.ca

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An overhaul in the way we navigate the world wide web has been approved in paris...Currently there are so many domains that can be used for URLs on the web, this will add more flexibility to the system.

ICANN is going to be taking applications for the new domains starting in April and might include such domains as .ebay, .atl, .NYC for example. The suffixes look to be pretty expensive from what I have read about them.

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