In the last year or so there’s been an explosion in sites allowing you to use a third-party login to access their services.  Every major company except for Microsoft has so far jumped on the bandwagon but it appears we have an outright and runaway winner already. Read Write Web is reporting a study that shows [...]

Categories: Facebook, Google, Yahoo

One problem with that many popular sites out there on the Internet is that of data redundancy. Facebook users who also have a Flickr account had that problem in the past. If they wanted to post photos hosted at Flickr on their Facebook wall they had to either upload the photos a second time or [...]

Categories: Facebook, Yahoo

The default address bar search engine in the Firefox web browser is Google Search. This means that any search phrase that the user enters directly into the Firefox address bar gets send to Google Search which returns either a direct hit or a search results page. Some Internet users might prefer to have a different [...]

Categories: Firefox, Search Engines

Yahoo has released Yahoo Messenger 10, the latest installment of their popular instant messenger. The Yahoo Messenger 10 download is offered not only for Windows operating systems such as Windows 7 or Windows Vista but also for Apple Macintosh, mobile devices like the iPhone and as a web application that requires no download at all. [...]

Categories: Yahoo

The Yahoo Messenger team has released the long awaited Yahoo Messenger 10 final. The popular instant messenger was previously only available in beta versions with many of them leaked and not officially released by Yahoo. The new Yahoo Messenger 10 can be downloaded directly from the Yahoo Messenger website where it is available for Microsoft [...]

Categories: Software, Yahoo

The Geocities era ends today with the termination of the once popular free web hosting service. Some great programs and free websites where hosted over the years at Geocities which will no longer be available after today. This has several implications not only for users who hosted their contents at Geocities but also webmasters and [...]

Categories: The Web, Yahoo

Yahoo Mail is one of the most popular web email services next to Windows Live Mail and Google Mail on the Internet. The Yahoo Mail login information can also be used on other Yahoo owned web services and properties including Flickr and Yahoo Messenger. This is similar to Google’s web based mail service Gmail which [...]

Categories: Email, Yahoo

We reviewed Yahoo Meme a while ago here at Ghacks and gave out several invites to Yahoo’s Twitter-like service. The service was in private beta back then which meant that only users with invites were allowed to use it. Yahoo Meme expands on the basic options that Twitter is offering to its users. It gets [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web, Yahoo

Xoopit, a company that was bought by Yahoo not long ago, developed email indexing and photo sharing technologies that have since then be integrated into Yahoo Mail. Gmail users, among others, were also able to make use of the interesting options that Xoopit provided through the use of the Xoopit for Gmail Firefox add-on. Yahoo [...]

Categories: Google, Yahoo