Here are some Excerpts from the report of TOI :

“Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court yesterday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Bing and Amazon, for publishing and promoting sacrilegious and blasphemous material. “

“Justice Mazher Iqbal Sidhu issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a man named Muhammad Sidiq who claimed these websites were publishing sacrilegious material. ”

“Aslam Dhakkar, head of a local bar association, was quoted as saying that the court had given a historic decision. He said the legal fraternity in Bahawalpur would observe a strike today to protest the publication of blasphemous material by the websites.”

It is never ever good to hamper the religious beliefs of People of any community in the World. But blocking the sites which are great sources of information and are the integral part of the web, is also not a permanent solution. There should be some alternative way needed to resolve this serious issue.

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To get started all you need to do is just connect your Flickr and Facebook Accounts from the sharing and extending tab of your account page. Once your Facebook sharing is enabled, updates are sent to your Facebook feed only if you upload the image as public.

For this integration Yahoo uses its Yahoo! Updates platform to power Flickr. While sharing your Flickr images on Facebook, you will have a full control over who will see your Flickr images.

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Facebook is now more deeply integrated into Yahoo! than ever before. People who use both Yahoo! and Facebook can now view and link their accounts across both networks. They can get real time updates from their Facebook friends and, can create and share content on any of the Yahoo group sites like Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Sports etc.

Yahoo! does not want its users who are also social networking enthusiasts to move away from the Yahoo! group of sites, Therefore it’s planning for more and more integrations with many social networking Services. Now it is already integrated with Facebook and Twitter and looking for more.

Yahoo Pulse is a new service to provide more security of your personal data and easier control of the privacy settings. This feature will help you to manage your privacy settings through a central dashboard. It also lets you to control your privacy settings for multiple social networking services. It will provide new tabbed interface with other kind of integrations in Yahoo and Yahoo Mail. You can have the updated experience at http://pulse.yahoo.com.

By the time this article was published the site was forbidden and you may get the following message:

It seems like Yahoo has learned from the mistakes of its rivals and don’t want to commit any similar error on privacy. It’s taking full care of its users to make them feel safe while integrating their social networking accounts on Yahoo.

For Now, It’s hard to comment on the exact specifications of the new interface as it’s not yet revealed by the company, but it’s sure to come within few days.

Source: Official Yahoo blog

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Yahoo buzz is news and stories aggregating service from yahoo where stories are ranked based on users’ votes, comments, emails, and searches. At moment Yahoo buzz serve worldwide in India and US only. Yahoo has also partnered with top news based portals such as Times of India, NDTV, Zee and India Today group along with news/ stories submitted by users.

Moreover, stories with most ‘Buzz’ may be published on the Yahoo home page i.e. yahoo.com which in turn will be viewed by millions.

Yahoo seems to expanding its services with attention towards India in specific as Yahoo earlier launched Yahoo Glue for India and now its BUZZ service.

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Search engines can now be able to crawl and index text that users can see as they interact with Flash based website or file (.SWF). The textual content in Flash files will than be used to generates snippets to display in search engines results.

Moreover, search engine cant index FLV files as well, such as the videos on YouTube, because these files contain no text elements. All in all, search engine with Adobe’s optimized Flash Technology can now find themselves feasible to crawl textual content in Flash based SWF files and others are still under R&D block of search engines and Adobe to fix Flash indexing algorithm further.

Webmasters and Web designers can find the general FAQs for further clarification Google Flash Indexing FAQs and Adobe Flash Searchability FAQs, although they do not have to do any extra work to get their Flash website indexed in google, as Google crawlers would index the flash textual content automatically, however they may look towards Google Webmaster tool if they want to go deep down to it.

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The team of Yahoo! 360 service made a post that apparently assures its community user to make this blogging service more of blogging capabilities and features and also to preserve existing bloggers' blog content, photos and friends list through out the transition and right tools required for smooth transition.

The transition cum evolution is being seen major step towards expanding it recently launched social networking service Yahoo! Mash, the evolution could relates to yahoo mash but more than this it seems like Yahoo is focussed to integrate unversal Yahoo! profile through all of the Yahoo! Network be it Flickr, del.icio.us or MyBlogLog service acquired by yahoo in recent times.

The evolution of Yahoo! 360 will bring much more improved blogging capabilities and user concentric features obviously enriched with web 2.0 elements. 

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Internet Service Providers Associations of India (ISPAI) are alleging that internet companies mentioned above are eating market share of Indian companies and thats too illegaly i.e. without any licensed net telephony services. ISPs also allege that voice chat through Google, MSN and Yahoo is resulting in revenue leak for the government.

Internet telephony, estimated at 200 million minutes a month in which use of illegal net telephony without valid license is estimated at 10 million minutes a month.

ISPAI had alleged that an ISP licence or a unified access services licence (UASL) is required to provide Internet telephony, which these companies do not possess.

However, MSN and Yahoo denies such claims by putting a point that they offer free service so levying a service tax through licencing is not an issue anymore.

In India, companies like Skype, Vonage, Packet 8, Go2call, Lingo, Impetus, Dialpad and Net2Phone have been offering unlicenced net telephony services, which is mostly illegal. If they don’t opt for a licence the government should block them,” said ISPAI president Rajesh Chharia.

The director general, Central Excise Intelligence, has written to ISPAI, directing it to furnish the local addresses and overseas offices of firms provinding Internet telephony service, with details of revenues and major service receivers.

References – ISPAI.in

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Earlier it was released as beta version in US in January 2007 now after six months its available across US along with its localized beta version in other 13 countries on June 22.

Yahoo! Go is mobile optimized service which is optimized for small screens of mobiles with faster speed and reduced loading time, interface looks good which is what we expect from Internet giant Yahoo and has widgets which one among core element of this mobile service along with “carousel” a sleek navigation element of Yahoo Go that user can scroll to get what they want – mail, search, Image, news, local info and maps, Sports, Entertainment that one can have detailed overview at Yahoo! Go Tour.

Yahoo! Go will avialable pre-loaded on new devices from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC later in this year. Yahoo has also signed partnership agreements with six major mobile operators across Asia including India (Idea Cellular Limited India) for distribution of Yahoo!’s popular mobile search service – Yahoo! oneSearch, which is also part of Yahoo! Go.

Yahoo Go has been taken as an answer to world for easy access of internet on mobile devices and a competition to its competitors like Google and MSN as well. Yahoo! Go primarily a better solution for search on mobiles and more e-mail options including its ability to read attachments like PDF, Word docs, Excel and Powerpoint files.

Presently the list of mobiles that work with Yahoo! Go is 79, available to download link and install the application to mobile devices.

(List of Mobiles for Yahoo! Go – Here)

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