Scam Alert - Haji Mahmud

Scam Alert - Haji Mahmud, originally uploaded by CharlieBrown8989.

This is the Nigerian Scam email I received at my gmial account.

Click on the photo & read more there.

African - Nigeria Scam Alert

This is the email I received at my Gmail box.

If you received the similar letter. Please don't response.

Report them to your local authority, if you have been scamed by them!!

From The Desk of:
Barr. Martins Udofin, BL. LL.B
Legal Practitioner.
Tel:00228-910-6206.

Dear Billy Tan,


I am Barr. Martins Udofin, attorney at law. I am the personal attorney to
Mr.A. Tan, a national of your country, who worked with RIMS Groupe SARL, a
construction firm and have spent most of his life in my country (Togo)
hereinafter shall be referred to as my client.

On the 21st of April 2003, my client was reported dead, He was killed while
on a Trade Mission to the Republic of Cote d'Ivore during the civil war
there. My enquiries revealed that his vehicle was ambushed by Boake rebels
who mistook him for a Goverment merchenary. Since then I have made several
enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives,
which has also proved unsuccessful. After these several fervent unsuccessful
attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any
member of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist
in repatriating a sum capital valued at US$16.5 million left behind by my
client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the BIA
Bank, Togo where this huge deposit were lodged.

This said Banque Internationale pour l’Afrique au Togo(BIATOGO) has issued
me a notice to provide the "BENEFICIARY" or have the account confiscated
within the next twenty one(21) banking days. Since I have been unsuccessful
in locating the relatives for over 1 year now, I seek the consent to present
you as the beneficiary to the estate of the deceased since you have the same
last names, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.
Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the
modalities for transfer. I have all necessary information and legal
documents needed to back you up for the claim.

All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

I wait to hear from you soon.

Best regards,
Barr.Kevin Daniel. BL. LL.B
Attorney-at-law
Lomé, Republique du Togo.
From The Desk of:
Barr. Martins Udofin, BL. LL.B
Legal Practitioner.

Dear Mr S J Han,


I am Barr. Martins Udofin, attorney at law. I am the personal attorney to
Mr.A. Han, a national of your country, who worked with RIMS Groupe SARL, a
construction firm and have spent most of his life in my country (Togo)
hereinafter shall be referred to as my client.

On the 21st of April 2003, my client was reported dead, He was killed while
on a Trade Mission to the Republic of Cote d'Ivore during the civil war
there. My enquiries revealed that his vehicle was ambushed by Boake rebels
who mistook him for a Goverment merchenary. Since then I have made several
enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives,
which has also proved unsuccessful. After these several fervent unsuccessful
attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any
member of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist
in repatriating a sum capital valued at US$16.5 million left behind by my
client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the BIA
Bank, Togo where this huge deposit were lodged.

This said Banque Internationale pour l’Afrique au Togo(BIATOGO) has issued
me a notice to provide the "BENEFICIARY" or have the account confiscated
within the next twenty one(21) banking days. Since I have been unsuccessful
in locating the relatives for over 1 year now, I seek the consent to present
you as the beneficiary to the estate of the deceased since you have the same
last names, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.
Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the
modalities for transfer. I have all necessary information and legal
documents needed to back you up for the claim.

All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

I wait to hear from you soon.

Best regards,
Barr.Kevin Daniel. BL. LL.B
Attorney-at-law
Lomé, Republique du Togo.

Unlikely Alliances Form Amid Net Wars

Unlikely Alliances Form Amid Net Wars
What Google, Skype, Apple make us do...Bambi Francisco [Market Watch]

This is a interesting report!!

My opinion is that unlikely Microsoft would team-up with Yahoo!!

My prediction is there would be 3 Kingdoms in the Web IM segment if not would be big 5. 2 big guns would not be good for the user.


There is an upside and downside to the alliances forming in the war of the virtual worlds.

The downside is the partnering could mean the pie is shrinking and we're near a top of the market. The upside is that all the unlikely formations are as riveting to watch as some of the best movies out there.

So, you may want to sell some stock, and buy popcorn! Buy popcorn off Froogle.

If you haven't heard, Microsoft's (MSFT) MSN and Yahoo (YHOO), decided, apparently after being in discussions for a "long time," that they should look beyond their differences, accept each other's imperfections, and commit to one another, well, when it comes to instant messaging, anyway.

Unlikely Alliance Form Amid Net Wars...

African's Scam Alert - Rose Turey

This is the email I just received through my sbc.Yahoo.com

It is from Yahoo India

rose08turey@yahoo.co.in
From Mrs Rose turey

From Mrs Rose turey
Abidjan ivory coast
Telephone 0022507663185
Mail rose65@terra.com.mx
Attn.
i am Mrs Rose Turey the wife of LATE MR John turey from liberia who was killed by the entrim president gunmen due to his political ambisions the evil president also gave order to confuscate all his assets encluding his bank accounts, since his death life has become miserable to our farmily, but we are lucky the informations of his company fixe deposite account of $18.3 million united states dollers outside the country which i and my son Emmanuel has the all the informations covering it . i am soliciting for your help to provied a bank account where this fund will be transfed to and invested into a profited venture such as realestate , hotel business or gas station in your conutry. you will also help my son and i to have a resident visa to be in your counry with out any problem. we have decided to compansate you with the sum of $2.3 million for any of your effort in getting things done for us . you will also save as the director of any exterblishment which will be done with part of this fund in your country. we are now as a refuge in a local hotel abidjan i will like you to contact me and my son Emmanuel for more details about this transaction if you are honest and caperble in handling the transfer. we are hoping to hear from your urgenty
thanks and god bless.
Mrs Rose Turey

Please beware of this scam. The same email were sent to my gmail account as well.

Report these to your local authority.

Flickr Bully -- CharlieBrown8989

I am appending the following email from Flickr for your reading.

I am working hard to develope my contacts online. Then they bullied me suspended.

This is harrasement, bully.

Yahoo Senior management shall look into these!!

Hello My Friends

Today, I am given a email by a girl call Ana from Flickr:-

[Flickr Case 35709] Re: About your Flickr account

Hi Charlie,

We are currently evaluating limits on how many contacts a
member can add. You currently have over 10,000 contacts
and the number seems to be growing. I ask at this time
that you begin removing contacts from your list.

We will be putting a limit in place very soon and instead
of us just dumping your contacts, it would probably be
better if you started selecting which ones you prefer to
keep.

Please respond to this email address so I know you've read
and understood this request.

Thank you,
Ana & The Flickr Team

This is getting too much!!

I am sure this is against the human rights. & suppression of minority!!

Moreover this is America!!

This is my friendly advise the Flickr team should stop doing things like these.

Jerry Yang, I am sure this is your job to look at the things now!!

I appreciate that...

African Scam Alert - Godwin Ojo

This is the full text of the African Scam reached my gmail box this time.

So you see the power of internet search engines, these Scammer's must have gone into the search & got my email from my blog's.

If you have receive the same kind of email or letter's please don't respond to it.

You may lost money & even your life.

Dear Charlie Tan,

I humbly wish to seek your assistance in a matter that is very important and needs utmost trust and confidence. I am Mr.Godwin Ojo, a business consultant and close confidant of one of the ADC to Mr Laurent Kabilla,the late president of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The issue is this, the wife to one of the top government official and an oil royalist who served in Kabilla's regime wishes to move out from Lome-Togo,the sum of US$7.2million.

She is very willing to invest the aforementioned sum in a viable investment overseas. For obvious reasons, my client does not wish to place this fund with established financial institution in the family's name for security reasons. It is her desire that the deal be handled as quietly as possible without any leakage to the public or the incumbent government as they have suffered a great lost in the past.

She has therefore empowered and instructed me to look for a reliable foreigner who can arrange and receive the money into his or her account oversea and assist to invest the fund properly for the family. If you agree to act as a fund manager for my client and her family, I shall arrange to release the sum of US$7.2Million to you if you meet my requirement and upon a favourable response from you. I shall let you know how you will receive it.

I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you and I to this effect.At the conclusion of this business you will be given 20% of the total amount,75% will for be for my client,while 5% will be for any expenses both parties might have incurred during the process, Be informed that arrangements have been made for you to receive this fund any where you want the fund to be transfered for claim where you will sign the necessary documents for the release of the fund to your choice/designated bank account.

If you are capable and willing to participate in this transaction, reach me immediately.In any case, please keep it tight secret.After confirming your acceptance arrangements will be made on how the fund will leave.

As I anxiously await your soonest positive response.

Goodbye and GOD bless.

Best regards.

Mr Godwin Ojo.

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"Yahoo! is more than just a search"

The folowing is the interview with Terry Semel, CEO of Yahoo:

He thinks that the "Internet is becoming more and more relevant to people’s lives. Entire generation are now growing up with the Internet, which is becoming more relevant and significant, regardless of whether it’s on a computer, mobile devices, or in the future becomes part of television. I regard it as the ability of our community to access information and Yahoo!’s Internet functions from wherever they may be in the world, from any device they are using. The possibilities are very far-reaching.”

In my pinion as per my vision back in 1989 at the "Information Technology for The Future in Nagoya" It is a network emcompass:

Local - LAN
Wide Area - WAN
Gobal Access - GAN

Together with the

Computer's/ Processor's/ Multi-Microprocessor's

Communication Processor's

Man-Machine Interface is the key Area of Growth & You see the convergent of Multi-Media on the Digital Network (Which is today internet!!)

These vision have not been change. As I said earlier by end of the year, Video Blog would be the fastest growth segment on the web.

"Yahoo! is more than just a search"

Terry Semel, CEO of Yahoo!, the world’s most successful Internet company, is unimpressed by Google’s hype. In an exclusive “Globes” interview, he tells how he saved Yahoo! from collapse, and marks his next target: entering the media field.
Keren Tsuriel-Harari 10 May 05 14:50

Saturday night, April 9, 9:00 pm. Terminal 1 at Ben Gurion Airport is completely deserted. Only in the Massada reception room, which, like most VIP reception rooms, is located in the back of the terminal, where the masses will not disturb the VIPs' rest, is there any movement. There is a representative of the Israel Immigration Police, a group of security men, and someone acting as a host-waiter. The only passengers at the moment, on a private 10:00 pm flight, are Terry Semel and his wife, Jane. Wearing Nike sports shoes, with slightly unkempt hair and several days’ beard on his face, Semel doesn’t look like the chairman and CEO of the world’s largest Internet company, the man who only recently exercised options for at least $230 million, and contributed $25 million to a neuro-psychiatric institute at the University of California.

Semel takes care to stress that he is on a private visit. “My wife and I very much wanted to visit Israel. We came as tourists just to see it, and it’s great; we had a very good time,” he gushes. “We saw quite a lot. We met many people, and visited pretty places. We’re already thinking about the next time.” On the other hand, when an out-of-the-way place like Israel hosts a Jew as highly placed as Semel, public matters becomes intermingled with private ones. Even the security arrangements for getting on the plane are carried out with a maximum of respect and a minimum of bother for the traveling couple. “You can’t do this; he’s the owner of Yahoo!,” one of the security people rebukes his colleagues on his walkie-talkie.

Despite the fact that he is now completely identified with Yahoo!, Semel’s entry into the company wasn’t smooth and easy. While he is responsible, together with Bob Daley, for turning Warner Brothers into the media and entertainment giant that it is today, the rules in Hollywood differ from the rules of the Internet, and the laws governing public companies are very different from those applying to private companies. On the other hand, after 24 years, and given his record, Semel could have arranged a far more glittering job than an Internet company that had got into trouble and had begun a painful streamlining process. Semel’s resume seemingly includes nothing that qualifies him to manage a technology company. “Terry wasn’t looking for a job,” Daley said at the time. “He was looking for a challenge.”

Semel found his challenge, and met it. Within a few quarters, he won a place in Yahoo!’s hall of fame, and put on the best and most enviable show in Silicon Valley. He raised Yahoo! from a rock bottom market cap of just over $4 billion to a company with a market cap of $48 billion, double that of General Motors, the epitome of American industry. He took the company from wrenching losses of tens of millions of dollars to record revenue of $3.57 billion, and a net profit of $840 million. The significance is greater than the increase in the numbers. Semel turned a hard to quantify dot.com phenomenon into a stable, robust moneymaking machine. In a more universal sense, he was making a statement about the health of technology companies. The era when the philosophy of “if you built it, and it attracts a lot of clicks, go on running it,” came to an end. The philosophy of the Semel era is based on a solid economic foundation.

Semel also personally deviates to some degree from the norm for the industry that he leads. When he became chairman and CEO of Yahoo!, he admitted that he usually didn’t use e-mail. “I’m still a beginner in the Internet, but I’ve learned a lot,” he confessed on his visit to Israel. His conduct and management style are more reminiscent of the old-style movie tycoons than those of managers of the world’s largest and fastest growing Internet companies. In contrast to high-tech managers, who love seeing their pictures in the newspapers and reading their chatter with the media, Semel’s motto is “results talk.” An attempt to query whether the dot.com bubble was recurring was rejected on the spot. Semel prefers using old economy expressions.

“I can’t speak for every company, or for the entire Internet, but I think there are several really stable and serious Internet companies, and Yahoo! is one of them. These companies have great business, and are growing consistently year-by-year. These are serious businesses; they’re here to stay, and they have enormous opportunities for growth.”

“Google Doesn’t Frighten Me”

Semel is described as being suspicious of the media, secretive, and standoffish. He is known as somebody who doesn’t usually give interviews to the media. “Yahoo! has the best business model in the Internet,” he said in an interview not long ago, “and it has nothing to do with getting your picture in the paper, but with doing the real thing: performance and consistency in the long term.”

When we sit down for an interview, he really seems ill at ease. His answers are short and correct. “That’s the last question, right?” he hints. On the other hand, he is considered a tough warrior in the market. As Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig puts it, “He expects a new fight every day.”

Semel’s biggest and most widely publicized battle was with Google. In mid-2000, when Google was a search engine just past the start-up phase, Yahoo! adopted it as its search engine. Two years afterward, little Google, with its elegant home page, began to sound like a giant, and started primping itself for an IPO. This was one of Semel’s biggest tests: the apprentice was turning on his master, and boasting that he would beat him in a duel. Semel wouldn’t concede. In late 2002, he acquired Inktomi, which develops search technologies, for $235 million. Just over a year ago, he re-launched Inktomi as Yahoo!’s search engine, and said goodbye to Google. Since then, Google has held a successful IPO, touched a $50 billion market cap, and become the media’s darling. Semel, in any case, is not worried about lagging behind. “We’ve been in the search field with our engine for about a year,” he says. “I think we did excellent work during this year, and there will be many developments and innovations.”

Globes: Google has become a tough competitor. The markets and the media like it.

Terry Semel: Google is a very good search company, and Yahoo! is also a very good search company. You musn’t forget, however, that Yahoo! is more than just search. We have many functions, and we have a great many competitors in each function and in each vertical in which we operate, whether it’s news, sports, finance, or games.”

As the technology market revives, this competition will only get stiffer.

Yahoo! is used to competition. I think that good competition is a healthy thing. We hope to be very good in everything we’ve done, and that we’ll do in the future. In general, our goal is to supply our consumers with the best products and services.”

This is where one of the main differences between Yahoo! and Google lies. Google positions itself as a boutique, with a few high-quality services, such as free e-mail with an unprecedented volume of 2 gigabytes. Yahoo! positions itself as a supermarket, in which you can buy any Internet product you want: chat rooms on any topic, news services, travel agencies, bargain sales, a financial portal, sports and television experiences, career management, and finding a job. Yahoo!’s strategy is to offer everything, thereby making itself the default option for everyone who needs something on the Internet. With this strategy, you have to be very good in what you do, but you don’t have to be the best, because excellence lies in the array of functions. “Diversity has paid off for Yahoo!, which has become an Internet destination for finding other sites, and any kind of information,” CBS analyst Larry Magid explains.

There is another significant difference between Yahoo! and Google’s concepts. Google is trying to save and improve the world with its products and solutions. It invests in markets that don’t exist yet. Yahoo! does not purport to change the world; it follows the existing markets that it wants to conquer. “I wake up every morning thinking about what our customers want,” Semel said a few months ago, thereby crowning Yahoo!’s consumers as its formal programmers.

The Future Lies in the Entertainment Industry

Competition between Yahoo! and Google is waning, however, as the companies pick up speed on their divergent roads. Current market wisdom holds that Google is planning to develop computer and Internet infrastructure functions, such as an operating system and browser, in competition with Microsoft. Yahoo!, on the other hand, is going to Hollywood; the company is bolstering its entertainment content. Its biggest competitor is therefore America Online-Time Warner. Last year, Yahoo! founded a new entertainment division, located in Santa Monica, near Hollywood, with enough space to contain a thousand employees. Former ABC Entertainment Television Group chairman Lloyd Braun manages the division, and more managers were recruited from Warner Brothers, Semel’s previous place of employment, to work with Braun. They have already managed to sign a content cooperation agreement with several major studios and producers, such as Mark Burnett, the producer of “The Apprentice” and “Survivor.”

In a rare public comment, Semel confirmed that Yahoo! is moving in the direction of content production. “Yahoo! rests on four basic pages: personalization, large communities of people, content, and search,” he explains. “Over the years, it has invested quite a lot in all of these four pages. This has also left its mark in terms of content.

“Content is something that Yahoo! has always done, whether through licenses, collecting, or on occasion creating our own slices of content for our users. I plan to continue following this route. It’s not new. It’s the same route, but the advantages of broadband enable us to assemble more video, which will be a significant component, and greatly enrich the experience of our consumers. High-speed Internet facilitates a better experience, and enables people to download music and see new things, whether it’s news, sports, or games. We’re there in everything that’s digital and makes it possible for us to supply a better product and provide a better service.”

Is that why you’re cooperating with producers and studios?

Right now, we’re in touch and cooperating with many content companies. We get licensed content from them, whether it’s news, sports, games, pictures, or other activities, and they enable us to do a better job. In the future, we may also connect with the major studios.”

Semel is discreet, and does not provide details, but the market believes that Yahoo! is going for a merger or strategic cooperation with giants, on the America Online-Time-Warner model. For his part, Semel prefers cooperation to a merger. “As an Internet-media company, Yahoo! believes that television networks, movie studios, and music companies should regard it more as a partner than as a candidate for a merger,” he said recently at an investment conference in New York. “I think that there’s another alternative, and Yahoo! is a perfect partner, which can help the conventional media. We don’t want to look like television.” On another occasion, he explained that Yahoo!’s production possibilities will not be movies or television programs, because as a media, the Internet has to be interactive.

In any case, Semel does not believe that the Internet will wipe out the traditional communications media, with which he wants to create close cooperation. Yahoo! will come to this wedding as a strong distribution channel, if not the strongest on the Internet. Yahoo! can distribute exclusive content that relies on the studios (such as 40 minutes of every episode of “The Apprentice”, which is broadcast on the website on the same day as the television broadcast), and joint content. Semel does not disclose in public all his ideas in the field, and the hints that he does throw out are carefully scrutinized. For example, a month and a half ago, he said that Yahoo! believed that that it could create simple content by developing new ways for its hundreds of millions of users to create and distribute their content. He has also made a few non-committal hints about blogs, the latest Internet hit.

Another option emerges from remarks by UBS Warburg analyst Ben Schachter: “I can easily imagine how, in another five years, I’ll be using my credit card to pay Yahoo! to watch a movie premier on my computer.” In any event, regardless of what content Yahoo! produces, “It will have to be more special and smarter” than other mass media, Semel summed up on Yahoo!’s tenth birthday.

As part of its entry into the entertainment game, Yahoo! acquired MusicMatch, a program for downloading and managing music files, for $160 million at the end of last year. “Yahoo! is committed to being the leading player in digital music,” Semel declared at the time. “It matches our strategy of catching the largest consumer audiences when they switch to digital music, and supports our goal of providing consumers with more possibilities for selection, control, and flexibility in the way that they connect with music. This acquisition was one of several innovative products in which Yahoo! will invest in the future in order to build a music portfolio.”

An intriguing aspect of Yahoo!’s entertainment activity came to light during Semel’s visit to Channel 10, the new baby of his friend, movie producer Arnon Milchan. Semel and Milchan, who has become a significant partner in the channel, first became acquainted when Milchan was doing business with Warner Brothers, and distributed its movies. During Semel’s visit, the subject of cooperation with Channel 10 on content was raised. When I asked Semel about the possibility of such cooperation, he was careful not to reveal too much. “They asked, and this is something that I’ll look into after my vacation, when I return to California.” He eventually remarks, “At the moment, I think it’s still not ripe, and I prefer not to comment on it.”

Personalized Internet

While the Yahoo! supermarket continues to expand, offering more and more categories, and more and more products in each in category, Semel is also steeriing the company into personalization. For example, Yahoo! communicates with its customers in over 15 languages, and perhaps, in the future, Hebrew will become a Yahoo! language. Another personal element is making the site more localized. “If you are looking for a plumber or a pizza parlor, you don't want one 3,000 miles away,” Semel explained two months ago. “You want your search to be customized just for you. That means including very large communities and groups representing millions of people having very specific fields of interest. They spend a lot of time on Yahoo! in order to express the same needs.” Bear in mind that a neighborhood website like this will be attractive and hard to replace, and will therefore be attractive to advertisers.

This personalization capability, together with the world’s most advanced technologies for vertical searches, blogs, social networks, and content distribution, is creating what technologically oriented young people love: a page that creates an online identity for a user, with a picture, biography, and blog pages. Such a personal online product is a prodigious advertising anchor, even if its business model is not yet clear. “The potential strategic gain from the blogosphere is substantial, as it could change the way we use the Web… Yahoo! will need to lead in this area if it is to sustain its leadership,” analyst Marianne Wolk writes.

According to Semel, Yahoo! will reinvent both itself and Internet content. “This year, you’ll see more and more links between Yahoo!’s same four basic pages: personalization, communities, content, and search,” he announces. “We’ll enrich the experience and activity of our communities, and enable them to do more than each can do separately. Eventually, before the end of this year, Yahoo! users will be able to not only us these four pages, but also link them to every type of device, so that all the mobile devices in the communications world, including computers, mobile phones, and other mobile devices, can be used with Yahoo!’s four functions.”

Where is the Internet going? Is it shifting from the computer to other devices?

I think that the Internet is becoming more and more relevant to people’s lives. Entire generation are now growing up with the Internet, which is becoming more relevant and significant, regardless of whether it’s on a computer, mobile devices, or in the future becomes part of television. I regard it as the ability of our community to access information and Yahoo!’s Internet functions from wherever they may be in the world, from any device they are using. The possibilities are very far-reaching.”

http://www.globes.co.il/serveEN/globes/docView.asp?did=912745&fid=1724

eBay Freud Alert

This is the email I received today.

I have check the property of the originating site. It is not from eBay.

If you are receiving these kind of email. forward a copy to

spoof@ebay.com

Please work hand in hand to get these scammer's behind the bar.

***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice***

eBay Fraud Mediation Request
Date: 02 May 2005

You have recieved this email because you or someone had used your account to make fake bids at eBay. For security purposes, we are required to open an investigation into this matter.

THE FRAUD ALERT ID CODE CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE WILL BE ATTACHED IN OUR FRAUD MEDIATION REQUEST FORM, IN ORDER TO VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNT REGISTRATION INFORMATIONS.

Fraud Alert ID CODE: 00937614
(Please save this Fraud Alert ID Code for your reference.)

To help speed up this process, please access the following form to complete the verification of your account registration informations:

http://scgi.ebay.com/verify_id=ebay &fraud alert id code=00937614

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Please Note:
If we do not receive the appropriate account verification within 48 hours, than we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended.
The purpose of this verification is to ensure that your account has not been fraudulently used and to combat the fraud from our community.

We appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade.

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

Regards, Safeharbor Department (Trust and Safety Department)


Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.



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Hard Work Can Restore The News Business

That is for sure, Hardwork & consistencies would help a business & person to the eventual success.

With the RSS & Feeds, informations be it Hard or Soft products would be able to get to the contacts & friends instantly. That means that those informations seater would be out of place. Yor interface with your contacts would be directly through the blogs.

Those businesses & individual who failed to tap the power of Internet & blog or RSS Feeds would be left out!!

Hume: Hard work can restore the news business
By Ben Rubin
North Adams Transcript

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - NORTH ADAMS -- In her lecture, "Talk Shows, Blogs and the Future of News," at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts on Thursday, writer and journalist Ellen Hume said many new streams of media are getting all the attention, though they are basically regurgitation machines for the more traditional forms of news.

Hume said that 25 percent of ABC's news is generated by its own news staff, 54 percent for CNN and 14 percent for Fox News. A measly 1 percent of all the news found online is uniquely produced by Web site staff writers.

While the ominously, cynically nicknamed Main Stream Media (MSM) or Legacy Media is mocked by its spry, sassy younger brother, the bloggers and Internet news sources are actually working off big bro's stories. Think about this: AOL and Yahoo! edged out CNN and the New York Times as the most used Internet news sources -- but who are they posting on their sites?

There's more, of course. Hume, like many media pundits, says the news is in crisis.

"Having the watchdog bark at everything mean we've lost our bite," she said. "Too much time with Scott Peterson, not enough time with Rwanda."

In what she coined as the "attention economy," the race for the public's eyes and ears generally degenerates to simply a race to the bottom. Serious discourse isn't working it seems, and so the media needs to prod at people with antics to get them to listen, she said.

In this distopian milieu, newsrooms opt for White House press packages, ranting political extremists on cheap-to-run opinion shows and very little verification and fact checking in the daily struggle to "fill their news hole," said Hume.

"We're killing ourselves with entertainment," Hume said. "We're going for the ice cream, instead of the vegetables."

Hume said that the bells and whistles of the new news brings the viewer lost in distraction, a problem easily recognizable in Fox News' dramatic, thumping music or splash of colorful graphics, eerily reminiscent to "Demolition Man's" mocking take on futuristic news.

The blogger phenomenon means anybody and everybody can become a journalist, not with years of groveling and mandatory trips to the local deli, but with one quick jaunt to blogster.com. Hume said that the innovation of Internet news has washed away accountability -- we don't even know who these bloggers are, let alone their credentials.

With the current status of the news and the fog of blog, real news, good news is "having a hard time finding its economic footing," Hume said. Still, while Hume related theories that the news in the future will only be a subsidiary of the mega-global corporation known simply as Googlezon (Google and Amazon), or be used only when viewers don't get one of Jon Stewart's jokes, she said she remains optimistic that good news will survive.

Good news, Hume said, isn't as flashy or fun, and is more costly than maintaining the status quo, but people need it and deserve it. She said journalism at its best is independent -- independent from corporate ownership and independent from sources -- proportionate (think Michael Jackson trial); verified, transparent and accountable. The ultimate goal of a journalist is to be a skeptic, and to denounce and expose those who try to mislead the public, she said.

From consumers and digesters of the daily news, Hume suggested as much critical consideration as she expected from reporters. Ironically, it's easier to find everything nowadays, except the truth. Be a smart shopper, get a variety of news sources and look in places that aren't just a reinforcement of your niche lifestyle, she said.

Hume added that if consumers wanted good journalism, they have to participate by supporting the news financially and complaining about the news when they're not happy with it.

"Consumers beware, journalists -- remember, what your job really is, because if you don't do it, who will?" Hume said.

Hume served as the White House and political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal from 1983 to 1988 and a national reporter with the Los Angeles Times from 1977 and 1983. She was a weekly analyst on CNN's "Reliable Sources," a panelist on PBS's "Washington Week in Review" and periodically visited NBC's "Meeting the Press."

A recipient of many awards, Hume has worked in the media for 30 years and is currently the director of the Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

Scam & Phishing Alert - "Paypal"

If you are receiving the appended email to your mail box.

Do not respond!! Take no action!!

Go to Paypal Website . Check the "Security Section".

Forward this email to

Spoof@paypal.com

As Paypal never send letter by:

"Dear Valued PayPal Member"

If you have accidentally enter the informations then

Call


Customer Services Immediately. Inform them & change your security details.

Report the incident to FBI .. FCC or your Local Authority.

Dear valued PayPal member:

PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of
buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs
some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud
teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.

Recently, our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your
account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your
account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your
account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved. This
is a fraud prevention measure meant to ensure that your account is not
compromised.

In order to secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may
require some specific information from you for the following reason:

We would like to ensure that your account was not accessed by an
unauthorized third party. Because protecting the security of your account
is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive PayPal account
features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please
understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection.

Case ID Number: PP-040-187-541

We encourage you to log in and restore full access as soon as possible
Should access to your account remain limited for an extended period of
time, it may result in further limitations on the use of your account.

However, failure to restore your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records as soon as possible!

Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.

To update your Paypal records click on the following link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run



Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that
this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We
apologize for any inconvenience.


Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department



PayPal Email ID PP522


Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside

SBC Yahoo! Mail - tanch89@pacbell.net

Friends Photos and Blogs All In One

I have been researching in to Photo Blog for the last 10 days.

I have signed-up with




These few days, I am trying up the posting photo's & write my articles with

A Picture Is Worth More Than Thousand Words


I have experience the search of traffic & making more friends on the Net.

Hence, I suggest that you do the same...

Friends, photos and blogs all in one place
USA TODAY By Edward C. Baig Thursday, April 14, 2005

What do you get when you mix a blog with an online photo album and a social network? Probably something resembling what Microsoft and Yahoo have each recently cooked up.

The new Yahoo 360 service is billed ''as a central place online where consumers can easily share what matters most to them and keep connected to people they know.''

Sounds awfully similar to Microsoft's pitch for its new MSN Spaces: '' . . . allows consumers to create personal Internet Spaces sites where they can express themselves in a variety of ways and interact with the people they care about most.''

The two services have a lot more in common than either of the rivals would like to admit.

Both 360 and Spaces are free. Both let users share pictures and lists of favorite books, songs and movies. Both offer fairly simple tools to create a Web log, or blog.

No surprise: Each company also is designing services to keep people inside its online universe -- Yahoo everything this, MSN everything that.

As someone who has managed to resist the blogging phenomenon to date, I found some aspects of both services appealing. The (for now) invitation-only Yahoo 360 site is still in beta-testing phase. The open-to-all MSN Spaces graduated out of beta April 6.

As the finished product, Spaces is off to a head start. You sign up with a Microsoft .Net Passport account at spaces.msn.com. You can customize Spaces by choosing from more than 60 backgrounds and five layout templates. For Ed's Place, I chose a dusky blue background with a silhouette of what could pass as a medieval village.

Inside Spaces are windows, or ''content modules.'' You can drag modules anywhere on a page.

In one such module, I started my blog, opining on a topic that hangs heavy on my heart: the early-season woes of my beloved New York Mets.

Spaces supports RSS 2.0 (Really Simple Syndication). That means anyone with RSS reader software can ''subscribe'' to your blog and keep up on your latest musings -- if you grant each person permission to do so.

Running in a separate module is a slideshow with pictures I uploaded of my daughter. Visitors to your Spaces can pause pictures, change the speed of the slides or click to view full-screen images. Microsoft gives you 30 megabytes of storage for pictures (about 750 compressed images).

I added custom modules to post lists of my favorite movies and directors. I also created a music list from playlists inside Windows Media Player. Someone who clicks on an artist's name, album or song title in the list is taken to the MSN Music store to sample or buy available tunes.


Friends photos and blogs all in one

Garfield & Snail

Garfield 14/03/2005, originally uploaded by wirjo.

Don't Worries You Are Slow.

The Over 6,000 years of Wisdom is:

Do Not Worries About You Are Slow;

You Should Concern That You Just Standing There!!

Banking Fraud - Alert

This is the Kind of Banking Fraud email, have been hitting my mailbox. They use major banks like

Chase

Citi Group

Washington Mutual

Regions Bank

Also Credit card such as

Discover

Visa

Master

They also use Paypal.

I urge you if you receiving these kind of email.

Then contact the bank by checking their website. & Forward a copy of the email to their spoof@XXXX.com or phishing@xxxx.com. Also report it to
FTC. There is a link in this page.

If you have enter your banking informations off gaurd.Then call the Bank & request to change the banking info immediately!!

As a person have been victimized by these scamemer. I am sharing my life & death experience with you. So as to prevent further losses.

From: "Regions Bank Security Department" Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book
To: XXXXXXXXX
Subject: WARNING: CONFIRM YOUR ONLINE BANKING RECORDS
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:43:34 -0500

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view.




Dear client of Regions Bank,

Technical services of the Regions Bank are carrying out a planned software upgrade. We earnestly ask you to visit the following link to start the procedure of confirmation on customers data.

To get started, please click the link below:

https://online.regions.com/ibsregions/cmserver/users/default/confirm.cfm

This instruction has been sent to all bank customers and is obligatory to fallow.

Thank you,



SBC Yahoo! Mail - tanch89@pacbell.net

Nigerian 419 Scam - Alert!!

As a victim of Nigerian 419 Scam. I am putting up this recent email. I received form "Mr John Johnson".

Please do not act. If you have been victimised by them, report these to your local authority or in United State, Report them to FBI.

These are not human , they do anything for money. Your life is in danger, if you fall into their trap.

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:31:19 +0100
From: johnson@officialdatemailonline.com
Subject: [Bulk] Very Urgent Attention,
Reply-To: mr_johnson@usa.com
To: undisclosed-recipients:;


Very Urgent Attention,


Please permit me to introduce my humble self to you, I m Mr. John Johnson, I
am the Manager of International Relation with Access Bank of Nigeria Limited,
I 'm 38yrs old, and I got your email address on the Internet, And my
confidence reposed on you. I hope you read this message Carefully and reply me
immediately. Although we have not met before, but I Suggest that this
transaction will bring us together. My dear, we have a customer, a foreigner
but base here in Nigeria, his Name is Mr. Hamilton Creek. He is from Atlanta
Georgia United State of America, but base here with his wife and his two
children, Mr. Hamilton Has being banking with our bank for the past 4yrs, some
time August 2002, Mr. Hamilton was on his way to his house, and unfortunately,
Mr. Hamilton ran into a Trailer load of Groundnut Oil, and died immediately,
Their car got burnt, no single soul was saved, Mr. Hamilton Creek and His
entire family was confirmed died. My Board Directors and Board Management of
Access Bank has mandated and Instructed me to look for Mr. Hamilton Creek
relation/relatives and his Next of Kin to come and claim Mr. Hamilton's Fund,
Since August 2003 Till date, I have been looking for Mr. Hamilton Creek
relation's and Relatives/Next of Kin to come and claim Mr. Hamilton's Fund
which he Deposited with our bank, I have contacted his Embassy and after
3days, his Ambassador told me that Mr. Hamilton Creek has no relation and no
next of Kin, their Ambassador told me that Mr. Hamilton used his first son as
His next of kin, but it is quite unfortunate that Mr. Hamilton Creek Died with
all his family members.
The reason why I contacted you is thus, Mr. Hamilton is dead, and his Only son
whom supposed to inherit his properties and money also died With him. As at
this moment, nobody or person[s] is coming to claim this Money from our bank.
The board directors and management of our bank has Told me that if nobody or
person[s] apply for the claim of Mr. Hamilton Fund, the bank will return Mr.
Hamilton's Fund into our Federal Reserve. In the Light of the above, I want
you to stand as the Relation/relative of Late Mr. Hamilton Creek, I want you
to act as the Hamilton's



Brother, so that you will inherit Mr. Hamilton Creek Money which he deposited
with our bank, it might interest you to know that Mr. Hamilton has a
Domiciliary Bank Account with our Bank and he has a total sum of US$9.2M Nine
Million Two Hundred Dollars, this is the exact amount which late Mr. Hamilton
Creek has in his domiciliary Account, and this money is still in his account
as unclaimed money. This transaction is very easy and simple, and it is 100%
risk free, I'm the Manager for International Relations with Access Bank of
Nigeria Limited, and the Management and Board Directors of the Bank are
waiting for me to provide to them the Relation or next of Kin to late Mr.
Hamilton Creek, of which I told them that I am still searching the next of kin
to the deceased.



Finally, if you are interested with this transaction, I will front you To the
bank as the only next of kin to late Mr. Hamilton Creek, and I Will let the
bank know that you are the only right person to inherit Late Mr. Hamilton
Funds and properties. If you agree with me, I will Present you to my bank as
the rightful person/next of kin to Late Mr. Hamilton Creek, and all Mr.
Hamilton Creek Properties and his Money US$9.2M Nine Million Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars will be transferred into Your Own Account as Mr. Hamilton
Creek next of kin., if you are interested, Just email me or call me on my
direct, private and secured #: +234-80-25310660, if you are interested, late
Mr. Hamilton Funds will be credited Into your Account and all his Properties
will be released to you either Through Courier Services or the Bank will Cargo
all his properties to You in any were you want it. So reply me immediately and
let me know What you say, feel free to ask any questions. We will share Late
Mr. Hamilton Creek Funds 50-50; you will take 50% of the US$9.2M. Which is?
US$4.600, 000.00 Four Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars, while the Balance
of the same amount will be mine. I will be waiting for your



Immediate response,


Thanks and have a nice day.



Friendly Regards


Mr. John Johnson


NB: Please reply to my personal mailbox: j_son127@yahoo.com


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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:31:19 +0100
From: johnson@officialdatemailonline.com
Subject: [Bulk] Very Urgent Attention,
Reply-To: mr_johnson@usa.com
To: undisclosed-recipients:;


Very Urgent Attention,


Please permit me to introduce my humble self to you, I m Mr. John Johnson, I
am the Manager of International Relation with Access Bank of Nigeria Limited,
I 'm 38yrs old, and I got your email address on the Internet, And my
confidence reposed on you. I hope you read this message Carefully and reply me
immediately. Although we have not met before, but I Suggest that this
transaction will bring us together. My dear, we have a customer, a foreigner
but base here in Nigeria, his Name is Mr. Hamilton Creek. He is from Atlanta
Georgia United State of America, but base here with his wife and his two
children, Mr. Hamilton Has being banking with our bank for the past 4yrs, some
time August 2002, Mr. Hamilton was on his way to his house, and unfortunately,
Mr. Hamilton ran into a Trailer load of Groundnut Oil, and died immediately,
Their car got burnt, no single soul was saved, Mr. Hamilton Creek and His
entire family was confirmed died. My Board Directors and Board Management of
Access Bank has mandated and Instructed me to look for Mr. Hamilton Creek
relation/relatives and his Next of Kin to come and claim Mr. Hamilton's Fund,
Since August 2003 Till date, I have been looking for Mr. Hamilton Creek
relation's and Relatives/Next of Kin to come and claim Mr. Hamilton's Fund
which he Deposited with our bank, I have contacted his Embassy and after
3days, his Ambassador told me that Mr. Hamilton Creek has no relation and no
next of Kin, their Ambassador told me that Mr. Hamilton used his first son as
His next of kin, but it is quite unfortunate that Mr. Hamilton Creek Died with
all his family members.
The reason why I contacted you is thus, Mr. Hamilton is dead, and his Only son
whom supposed to inherit his properties and money also died With him. As at
this moment, nobody or person[s] is coming to claim this Money from our bank.
The board directors and management of our bank has Told me that if nobody or
person[s] apply for the claim of Mr. Hamilton Fund, the bank will return Mr.
Hamilton's Fund into our Federal Reserve. In the Light of the above, I want
you to stand as the Relation/relative of Late Mr. Hamilton Creek, I want you
to act as the Hamilton's



Brother, so that you will inherit Mr. Hamilton Creek Money which he deposited
with our bank, it might interest you to know that Mr. Hamilton has a
Domiciliary Bank Account with our Bank and he has a total sum of US$9.2M Nine
Million Two Hundred Dollars, this is the exact amount which late Mr. Hamilton
Creek has in his domiciliary Account, and this money is still in his account
as unclaimed money. This transaction is very easy and simple, and it is 100%
risk free, I'm the Manager for International Relations with Access Bank of
Nigeria Limited, and the Management and Board Directors of the Bank are
waiting for me to provide to them the Relation or next of Kin to late Mr.
Hamilton Creek, of which I told them that I am still searching the next of kin
to the deceased.



Finally, if you are interested with this transaction, I will front you To the
bank as the only next of kin to late Mr. Hamilton Creek, and I Will let the
bank know that you are the only right person to inherit Late Mr. Hamilton
Funds and properties. If you agree with me, I will Present you to my bank as
the rightful person/next of kin to Late Mr. Hamilton Creek, and all Mr.
Hamilton Creek Properties and his Money US$9.2M Nine Million Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars will be transferred into Your Own Account as Mr. Hamilton
Creek next of kin., if you are interested, Just email me or call me on my
direct, private and secured #: +234-80-25310660, if you are interested, late
Mr. Hamilton Funds will be credited Into your Account and all his Properties
will be released to you either Through Courier Services or the Bank will Cargo
all his properties to You in any were you want it. So reply me immediately and
let me know What you say, feel free to ask any questions. We will share Late
Mr. Hamilton Creek Funds 50-50; you will take 50% of the US$9.2M. Which is?
US$4.600, 000.00 Four Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars, while the Balance
of the same amount will be mine. I will be waiting for your



Immediate response,


Thanks and have a nice day.



Friendly Regards


Mr. John Johnson


NB: Please reply to my personal mailbox: j_son127@yahoo.com

Gmail Capacities Continue To Increase

In 1978 & 1979. I was working on the Cyber M, with 16 Microporcessor Mother Board in a Shoe Box. The Memory chip then the Max size is 64K.

Now, with the present PC Minimum Memory size is half a GB. Let look at the email. The traditional wordprocessing base email is getting let appeal.

More email now are in HTML format. which require bigger memory spaces. Then when more people sending out the Voice mail & by the end of this year, there would be even more momery spaces is need. When the video mail is going for exposion. Therefore, with the Multi-Media Mail which encompass; Data; Voice; Music & Streamming Video, event a 2GB memory capacity can be just nothing special.

Therefore, as the trend moving forward, each vendor's would have to keep up with the trend then lagging behind.

Gmail Capacities Continue To Increase
Chris Richardson | Staff Writer | 2005-04-04

Last Friday, Google revealed their intentions to increase the storage capacity of Gmail accounts, moving them past the 1-gigabyte mark.

Currently, the Gmail storage capacity resides at 2057 megabytes and it continues to increase. There has been no word from Google on how much longer the increase is going to occur. They have dropped hints that they would be increasing Gmail's capacity past the 2-gigabyte mark on their blog, which says, "to celebrate our birthday, we're giving all Gmail users another gigabyte of space, and then some."

With the counter continuing its increase, which is already past the 2-gig mark, users can only guess where it will stop.

With the Gmail increase well under way, one can imagine Google's competitor's to follow suit. However, Yahoo only recently announced their intentions to increase storage on their free accounts from 250MB to 1GB.

Microsoft's Hotmail, which still resides at a 250MB capacity, has yet to respond to Yahoo and Gmail's recent increases.


Printable Version: Gmail Capacities Continue To Increase

Google Gulp. What's next?

The Marriage of The Yahoo & Google??

The Marriage of The 2!! Do You Think This is Cool??  

Yahoo! 360 degree Launched

The Great News is that Yahoo have Launched their

Yahoo 360 degree


I am fortunate to be given one by

Steve Rubel


Otherwise, I would be still in the waiting list.

For the last 40 hours or so I have receive 16 confirmations from friends accepting the invitations. there are still 53 outstanding.

Anyway, my observations is that Yahoo need to improve on the following:

1. The photo posting/ It's feature is more like the

http://spaces.msn.com/members/charliebrown8989/ then the




Which is using:




From my experience, both Hello & Picasa2 is so user friendly that once it is installed, you can just select the pictures & then upload.

However, I believe that Yahoo! 360 degree the uploading of Photo, complication would be a non-issue once they complete the acquistion of:




The other observation, I have is that after signing up

Yahoo 360 degree


I always have to sign in again when I check my email or browse other pages. These also Yahoo shall improve.

After all Yahoo have grain the experience & Mistakes; from Blogger & Spaces.MSN.com that would make Yahoo a more wholesome as the Blogging services provider!!

Yahoo have given those invited to sign up with 99 invitations, these also have Yahoo to build a strong base of eCommunity. This is a very smart move.

These business strategy it reminded me about my late father saying..

Oh!! Don't worry.. if you don't have money now..You just have it 1st.. then later you repay me... I would appreciate that you introduce your friends & relatives to me!!

I am always indebts to my Dad.

How Yahoo Fight Back The Loosing Ground On Blogging

Sometime, September last year, When I set up my 1st Blog with


.

I am using the Pacific Bell internet services since 1997. Then in year 2000, I signed with Pacbell DSL.

Now it is know as SBC Yahoo DSL. When I called




Their customer services told me that they don't have the Blogging services. However, I can either signed up with their subsidiary:




Alternatively, I can sign up with their hosting services either.. the personal plane or business plan. I then requested that my converzation with them is recorded. I said, I am giving these competitive informations for free.

What are you talking about, nothing you can do.. I know as in Customer Service, there is nothing you can do.. but I appreciate you tape my converzation & let's your manager play it for your decision maker's at the top.

Now, almost 6 months gone, I am glad that Yahoo really listen!! My Buying the Photo Blogging:




And Also Yahoo now alliances with:

a flexible copyright for Creative Work.


Yahoo! 360 Degree


Which is suppose to be launching tommorrow a more wholesome offering to these Blogger's in the Cybersphere.

As the world moving into the Knowledge Base; e-Economies. Blogging is becomming a tools for living.

The competitions on Blogging services is just at the beginning. A healthy competitions is good for the open market. especially the Bloggers.

How Yahoo Got It's Mojo Back.

A handful of blog-evangelists, a couple of key buys and some libertarian friendly moves have turned Yahoo from a dot.has.been to the new darling of the chattering classes. It is only a matter of time when mainstream media rediscovers Yahoo, and a stock market resurgence follows….

For Yahooligans, 2004 was a year of frustration. No one noticed the fact that company’s stock posted a hefty 72% gain, ending the year at about $38 a share. Overlooked was the fact that it had sales of $3.6 billion and net income of $834 million. That’s twice as much money it raked in 2003, and nearly three times the profit. It is no surprise that many Yahoo insiders felt like the Yankee fans - no matter what they did, they were going to be overshadowed by Google.

Google’s spectacular initial public offering (admittedly that lined Yahoo’s coffers nicely and helped with those profits in 2004) and ensuing hubbub where even political columnists were comparing the minimalist search engine to second coming of Jesus. Not a day went by when someone or the other theorized that Google was going to build a Web OS, a new kind of application framework or even a browser. In the other words Google will turn the web into a giant platform. Google was everywhere! Even in the pages of GQ.

That has tweaked the Yahoo insiders no end! Many had expressed their frustration, for rest of the world not seeing the true value of Yahoo, and how well the company was doing. It just seemed so boring, lacking the pizzaz of Google, its celebrity guests, and its wonderful chef. A few months ago, almost suddenly the tide turned.

Many starting to see that many of Google’s forays into anything but search have been like its search results lately - off target. Orkut is a bit of a blah! Blogger is because, blogger was! Google News and Froogle - well I think Jeff Jarvis has some choice words about that. AdWords/AdSense are great, but prone to click fraud. GMail is wonderful, but the ads on my content, no thank-you! An Autolinks brouhaha ensued.

This was precisely the opening Yahoo had been waiting for, to launch some sort of a media assault. Wired assigned Mike Malone, an Internet 1.0 guy to do a story on the company, and its comeback. The UnGoogle was a piece from the dot-com days, fancy wordsmith doing his thing, except it lacked the fire to get a “conversation” started.

The indignity is all the greater when you consider Yahoo!’s numbers: 165 million registered users, 345 million unique visitors a month, $49 billion market cap, and a 62 per­cent increase in revenue last quarter, bringing 2004 total revenue to $3.6 billion. Yahoo! makes more money and has more patents, services, and users than Google; it even has its own yodel.

And what it also has a couple of guys, I like to call them blog evangelists, who knowingly or not, have brought the right kind of attention to the company. Russell Beattie who recently joined Yahoo has been blogging furiously (much to my annoyance) about Yahoo and its wireless efforts. In normal course of events, Yahoo would have issued a press release, and many of us would have paid little or no attention. Jeremy Zawodny is the other and has helped the company focus on some of the newer social media trends. I have never met him, but if his blog is anything to go by, then perhaps he is spreading the open media religion at Yahoo. The blog-evangelists unlike press relations folks, only write when there is something important to say. That is if they want to maintain their credibility.

Russell and Jeremy are small part of the big equation. After sitting on its haunches for so long, and letting google walk away with the AdSense dollars, Yahoo’s Overture division is finally getting its act together and rolling out its small-publisher service. By buying Flickr earlier this month and OddPost last year, Yahoo has bought into the open-standards, web services business model, something which has gotten it much love from the bloggers who apparently care too much about this type of stuff. Adding RSS and blogs to My Yahoo, makes them cooler than the other two - MSN and Google. In an effort to best Google, the company has upped its free email storage to one gigabyte. Yahoo offered desktop search tool, just like Google. It is launching a blogging-meets-social networking tool, Yahoo 360. I have not seen it but count on blogsphere love for it. The company also announced today that it will search creative commons content. What that means is really nothing for many of the mom-and-pops don’t care about license information etc. But it will get boing-boinged and create the right karma for the company. If you look at all these features, it is not clear that if any one of these will bring any major dollars into the company. It will show to the chattering classes that Yahoo is on the right track. And is embracing new technologies etc. That’s until something new comes along.

MOZILLA FOUNDATION EXPANDS WITH LAUNCH OF MOZILLA CHINA

This is a significant step forward for 3 establishment to work together to made available the following:

Mozilla Suit


Firefox Browser


Thunderbird
email & News aggregator to the people of China, The populations stand at near to 1.5 Billions. Mandarine would become the No 1 Business Language in the World within the next 10 years.

One can envisage that a 10% of the populations is connected on the internet, you are talking about a customer base of 150millions. The potential is huge.

The services would bring the net communities in China to have the alternative Browser & email Client; News Aggregator other than IE 6.0, Netscape, Yahoo...

The Mozilla China project has been spearheaded by the Institute of Software,

Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) and the

Sun (China) Engineering and Research Institute (ERI).

ISCAS is a leading government funded research institute in China which focuses on the fundamental theories of computer science as well as software technologies and their applications. ERI is an integral part of Sun's international R&D program.

MOZILLA FOUNDATION EXPANDS WITH LAUNCH OF MOZILLA CHINA

Mozilla China marks third non-profit international affiliate and largest new market for the Mozilla Foundation

March 4, 2005, (Mountain View, CA). The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, today announced the launch of www.mozilla.org.cn and the creation of Mozilla China, a non-profit organization to help develop, promote, and deploy Mozilla products in China. The launch of Mozilla China follows similar international affiliate programs Mozilla Europe and Mozilla Japan.

The Mozilla China project has been spearheaded by the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) and the Sun (China) Engineering and Research Institute (ERI). ISCAS is a leading government funded research institute in China which focuses on the fundamental theories of computer science as well as software technologies and their applications. ERI is an integral part of Sun's international R&D program.

"We are extremely excited to announce the launch of Mozilla China," said Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. "Mozilla China will be responsible for promoting our mission of software choice and innovation throughout China. We believe there is tremendous potential for success in this new market and that the people of China will embrace our award-winning open source products. Additionally, China is a great resource for the open source community and we look forward to building a strong developer community."

Mozilla China will be co-chaired by Dr. Li Gong of Sun ERI and Mr. Mingshu Li of ISCAS, both of whom will sit on the steering committee with Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla China will build a Chinese version of the Mozilla web site, provide technical and architectural direction for Mozilla development in China, organize and operate discussion forums, and develop Mozilla source code in China.

"We believe the market should not be dominated by one provider and that customers deserve choice and innovation," said Dr. Li Gong, Co-chairman of Mozilla China Foundation and General Manager of Sun ERI. "Sun supports open source software and is one of Mozilla's largest developers worldwide. We have an excellent Mozilla browser development team in Beijing and look forward to playing an active role in Mozilla China and sharing our knowledge with all China developers through mozilla.org.cn."
ABOUT THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION

Established in July 2003, the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization hosting a collection of leading innovators whose mission is to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet. The Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for the Mozilla open source software project. The Foundation is based in Mountain View, California. Learn more about the Mozilla Foundation at www.mozilla.org.

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No Need to Click Here - I'm just claiming my feed at Feedster

Yahoo to Buy Photo-Sharing Site Flickr

For Yahoo to be successful in lunching their Blog




Yahoo

need to have a Photo Image Media Software like:




Which is now the Google subsidiary.

To compliment Yahoo! 360 degree Blog services.


I have not used the

, so I cannot comments more on these. I am awaiting the Yahoo! 360 degree Beta on Mar 29, 2005.

As I am on the waiting list for the Yahoo! 360 degree. I would certainly keep you all posted.

Yahoo to Buy Photo-Sharing Site Flickr
Mon Mar 21, 1:40 PM ET

NEW YORK - Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. President Stewart Butterfield on Monday confirmed Internet portal Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) will acquire the privately held company, which operates photo-sharing Web site Flickr.

Butterfield would not disclose terms of the deal, but said Yahoo will release an official statement during the afternoon. There was much speculation Yahoo was interested in acquiring Vancouver-based Ludicorp, whose Flickr service allows users to easily swap photos.

"Yes, we've reached a deal with Yahoo," Butterfield said. "We are being acquired."

The confirmation puts to rest rumors about a possible deal that had been bandied about by Flickr users on Web sites and blogs during recent weeks. The transaction picked up more credence on Sunday when a Ludicorp executive confirmed on the company's staff blog the acquisition had indeed gone through.

The deal received a favorable reaction from Wall Street. Standard & Poor's backed its "Buy" rating on Yahoo, saying the transaction makes "strategic sense." The acquisition was also seen helping Yahoo compete against Google Inc., which owns Picasa, a photo-sharing company.

Flickr allows users to upload digital photos from computers and camera phones, and assemble them into albums that can be posted on blogs and shared with other users. The photo-sharing service will likely become a cornerstone for the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's new "Yahoo 360" concept — which blends blogging and social networking.

Last week, Yahoo said its 360 service will combine instant messaging, photo storage and sharing, and Internet radio together. It is currently being tested by employees, and will be made available to Yahoo users by March 29.

Rivals such as Microsoft Inc.'s MSN.com and Google have already become involved in offering blogging services to users. Search engine Ask Jeeves Inc., which announced Monday it agreed to be acquired by Barry Diller's IAC/InteractiveCorp. for $1.85 billion, also offers similar services.

A spokesman for Yahoo did not immediately return telephone calls. Shares of Yahoo rose 9 cents to $31.20 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq.


Yahoo! News - Yahoo to Buy Photo-Sharing Site Flickr

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

Nigeria Scam 411 -Alert!!

This is the email. I got today. Which I would like you all to beware.

I have been a victim by these scammer's in Europe & Africa.. I nearly lost my life..

So, if you receive these kind of email. do not response.. Report to FBI or your local Authority.



FROM MR JOHN JOHNSON
TELL: +234-802-531-6006
EMAIL: j_johnson008@yahoo.com


Very Urgent Attention,

Please permit me to introduce my humble self to you, I m Mr. John Johnson, I am the Manager of International Relation with Access Bank of
Nigeria Limited, I 'm 38yrs old, I got your email address on the Internet, and my confidence reposed on you. I hope you read this message
carefully and reply me immediately. Although we have not met before, but I suggest that this transaction will bring us together.

My dear, we have a customer, a foreigner but base here in Nigeria, his Name is Mr. Hamilton Creek. He is from Atlanta Georgia United State of
America, but base here with his wife and his two children, Mr. Hamilton has being banking with our bank for the past 4yrs, some time August
2002, Mr. Hamilton was on his way to his house, and unfortunately, Mr. Hamilton ran into a Trailer load of Groundnut Oil, and died
immediately, their car got burnt, no single soul was saved, Mr. Hamilton Creek and his entire family was confirmed died.

My Board of Directors and Board of Management of Access Bank has mandated and instructed me to look for Mr. Hamilton Creek

relation/relatives and his next of Kin to come and claim Mr. Hamilton's Fund, Since August 2003 till date, I have been looking for Mr. Hamilton

Creek relation's and relatives/Next of Kin to come and claim Mr. Hamilton's Fund which he deposited with our bank, I have contacted his Embassy

and after 3days, his Ambassador told me that Mr. Hamilton Creek has no relation and no next of kin, their Ambassador told me that Mr. Hamilton

used his first son as his next of kin, but it is quite unfortunate that Mr. Hamilton Creek died with all his family members.

The reason why I contacted you is thus, Mr. Hamilton is dead, and his only son whom supposed to inherit his properties and money also died
with him. As at this moment, nobody or person[s] is coming to claim this money from our bank. The board directors and management of our bank

has Told me that if nobody or person[s] apply for the claim of Mr. Hamilton Fund, the bank will return Mr. Hamilton's Fund into our Federal
Reserve.

In the Light of the above, I want you to stand as the Relation/relative of Late Mr. Hamilton Creek, I want you to act as the Hamilton's Brother, so

that you will inherit Mr. Hamilton Creek Money which he deposited with our bank, it might interest you to know that Mr. Hamilton has a
Domiciliary Bank Account with our Bank and he has a total sum of US$9.2M Nine Million Two Hundred Dollars, this is the exact amount which

late Mr. Hamilton Creek has in his domiciliary Account, and this money is still in his account as unclaimed money.

This transaction is very easy and simple, and it is 100% risk free, I'm the Manager for International Relations with Access Bank of Nigeria
Limited, and the Management and Board Directors of the Bank are waiting for me to provide to them the Relation or next of Kin to late Mr.
Hamilton Creek, of which I told them that I am still searching the next of kin to the deceased.

Finally, if you are interested with this transaction, I will front you to the bank as the only next of kin to late Mr. Hamilton Creek, and I will let the

bank know that you are the only right person to inherit late Mr. Hamilton Funds and properties. If you agree with me, I will present you to my

bank as the rightful person/next of kin to Late Mr. Hamilton Creek, and all Mr. Hamilton Creek Properties and his Money US$9.2M Nine Million

Two Hundred Thousand Dollars will be Transferred into your own Account as Mr. Hamilton Creek next of kin., if you are interested, just email me

or call me on my direct, private and secured #: +234-802-53106006 if you are interested, late Mr. Hamilton Funds will be Credited into your Account

and all his Properties will be Released to you either through Courier Services or the Bank will Cargo all his properties to you in any were you want

it. So reply me immediately and let me know what you say, feel free to ask any questions. We will share Late Mr. Hamilton Creek Funds 50-50; you

will take 50% of the US$9.2M. Which is US$4.600,000.00 Four Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars, while the Balance of the same amount will

be mine. I will be waiting for your immediate response,

Thanks and have a nice day.

Friendly Regards

Mr. John Johnson
NB: Please reply to my personal mailbox: j_johnson005@yahoo.com
This is my private mailbox, Thanks.


SBC Yahoo! Mail - tanch89@pacbell.net

Blog Equal SEO Power In Search

This article from Blog Business World, which I appended for your reading.

My finding is that Blog is really powerful. Especial if your Blog is Power by Blogger.

After returning from Utah meeting, I set up a new Blogs

g3 Juice & Antioxidants

Then on last 3 days, I did a search on g3 Juice on google search bar, the result return that my site is at the 1st position.

With the power of Search Engine Corporations like:

Yahoo

Google

Microsoft

Life & Earning a Living is Day in Day Out with the Search Engine!!

After all these are the 3 Top SEO in the Business today!!

They are truly search engine optimization powerhouses. Before your eyes glaze over, and you start to yawn, keep in mind that many of your brand new blog visitor traffic arrives from search engines.

Editor's Note: How effective are blogs when it comes to search engine placement? Do any of your blogs rank exceptionally high in the various engines? Discuss at WebProWorld.

These include Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, and A9.com.

[Blogs Equal SEO Power In Searches] Ranking well, and preferably on the first page, is key to gaining extra free visitor traffic. Being placed on the second page for a search isn't too bad either.

By way of an SEO blog example, here are some search results for Blog Business World for uber competitive keywords.

We'll examine the search for the two word phrase "business world" without the quotes.

On Google, this blog ranks #8 out of an incredibly mind boggling 158,000,000 returns. You read that correctly. 158 million search results.

Okay, I'm not number on on page one. Of course, ranking just behind the BBC and the World Bank isn't too shabby.

Blog Business World is slightly less well ranked on Yahoo at #19, and is located on page two.

Of course, Yahoo search returns total an even more incredible 270,000,000 linked sites.

Yes, that is 270 million returns for the search term "business world".

The Zytext contextual ad network combines the latest innovations in business and technology to help create an increase in ad awareness, brand recall, and higher response rates. This translates to more quality traffic visiting your site. Let Zytext show you how! Click Here to sign up!

In terms of SEO, those are very powerful returns indeed.

Note the power of a little old blog, in competition with those extremely wealthy and huge organizations.

If you ever doubted the search engine optimization power of a blog before, that might just change your mind.

A blog oozes SEO power.

Get a blog working in the search engines for your business today.
There is no cheaper or more effective SEO available.

Anywhere, at any price.

About the Author:
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Check out Blog Business World for yourself.

SBC Yahoo! Mail - tanch89@pacbell.net

Yahoo! 360� - Home

Yahoo! 360 is the New Yahoo Blog Service.

It is schedule to be on beta March 29, 2005

If you are interested to have your own blog with Yahoo. Just goto

Yahoo! 360

You would discover more...


What is Yahoo! 360

Getting Started Is Simple

Already have a Yahoo! ID? That's all you need. Your page is out there waiting to be filled with whatever you like. If you don't have an ID, sign up for one. It's free, and takes a few seconds to get.
Start filling your page

Adding stuff is easy. All you need to know is point and click. If you already have stuff on Yahoo! that you want to share -- photo albums, groups, a LAUNCHcast station, Yahoo! Local reviews -- you can add them to your page in a few simple clicks.

* Sign in to Yahoo! 360°
* Create your own page. Post photos, start a blog, list your favorites.
* Invite your friends and family.

Share What Matters to You

Let people know what's interesting or important to you. Post photos. Start a blog. Share lists and recommendations, anything. Show who you are and what's in your life -- all your delights, dislikes, and playful passions.
example privacy setting
Control who sees what

You'll have complete control over who sees what. After all, your relationships with different people vary. So we've provided options for you to control access to any and all parts of your page.
One Place to Keep Connected

With Yahoo! 360°, you'll have one place to keep the important people in your life connected to you. And one place for you to stay connected to them.
Easily invite your friends and family

get connectedIt's very easy to plug all of your people in. With just a few clicks you can invite any -- or everyone from your Yahoo! Messenger friends list, your Yahoo! Address Book or (after beta) from Microsoft Outlook to connect to you.
Keep Up With Your Friends

It isn't always easy to stay in touch. Yahoo! 360° makes it a little easier. Every time you sign in, you'll automatically see the latest stuff your friends have shared.

Yahoo! 360� - Home

Founder watches Super Bowl star GoDaddy go -- No Longer The Cheapest!!

Goddady is no longest the Lowest price, Domain Registrar.

I have research into the Domain Registrar's for the last 6 months.

I found that Godaddy is no longer the Cheapest!! Also it is noted that their Customer Services Rep is not that friendly , as it suppose to be. Now Godaddy also offer web hosting.. Sp far their offering initially is competitive. But also lagging behind company like Dot 5 & Netfirms!!!!!

If company allow the Customer's Services to take over by Computers or Robotics trainined human services.. then their days would be numbered!!

When I spoken to their Rep on the phone... they just could not careless to take on my free suggestions. They even tell me that that is not my concern!!

Well protential customer's please beware!!

Founder watches Super Bowl star GoDaddy go
By Max Jarman, The Arizona Republic

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Decades after a combat wound in Vietnam cut short his military career, Bob Parsons still projects a Marine persona: big chest, tightly cropped hair, strong jaw, tough talk.

Over the years, though, the head of Internet domain-name registrar GoDaddy.com has updated his uniform.

The fatigues have been replaced by black Armani slacks and a black Nike mock turtleneck. He has a dozen of each and wears the outfit every day. "It's my work uniform; it's simple," he said.

Six years after becoming an Internet domain-name registrar, GoDaddy is the second-largest domain registry in the world.

And GoDaddy has achieved a not-so-simple something that most of the doomed-to-go-bust dot-coms of the '90s never did — revenue.

Parsons said the privately held company had sales of about $100 million in 2004, and he projects the figure would double in 2005.

Parsons founded the Scottsdale company in 1997, with proceeds from the $64 million sale of another company, Parsons Technology, to Intuit Inc. in 1996. The company has garnered a lot of attention since it aired a racy ad during the Super Bowl and then had the ad, slated to run again later in the game, yanked by Fox.

"We're on our way to becoming a billion-dollar company," he told employees in his quarterly address. "Who knows? We may be there now."

GoDaddy and related subsidiaries help clients obtain and protect Internet domain names that are used to access Web sites. Domain names also are needed to make Internet, or VoIP, phone calls. GoDaddy also designs and hosts Web sites for clients, provides e-mail services and sells software that blocks spam, computer viruses and pop-up ads.

With over 6 million domain names under management, GoDaddy is the world's second-largest registrar service for Internet addresses, slightly behind Network Solutions, which is owned by Phoenix-based Pivotal Private Equity.

The 2005 revenue picture got a big boost from the company's Super Bowl advertising bonanza, which produced 5 million Web site hits in one day and a substantial jump in business, Parsons said.

The ad poked fun at media censorship and showed a tank-top-clad GoDaddy girl (actress Candice Michelle) appearing before a mock congressional censorship hearing.

"It was the NFL (who asked that the ad be pulled)," Parsons said. "Fox approved the ad twice."

Fox's decision to pull the ad landed Parsons interviews in most of the nation's major newspapers and spots on television and radio news programs, including a session with shock jock Howard Stern.

As a result, GoDaddy's one ad garnered the company more exposure than any of the other advertisers.

From Dec. 1 to Feb. 1, media-exposure monitor Multivision Inc. found that GoDaddy's Super Bowl ad was mentioned in nearly 700 broadcasts on local, national and cable television. The broadcasts reached an audience of 262.9 million people, with an estimated publicity value of $11.7 million, according to Multivision.

"It was beyond our wildest dreams," Parsons said.

GoDaddy wasn't an immediate success. In fact, it wasn't even called GoDaddy. The original name was Jomax Technologies, and the business plan was Web site development.

Parsons said he changed the name to GoDaddy because it would be more memorable. "It was kind of fun and had a retro sort of sound to it.

"I came within a whisker of losing all the $64 million (from the sale of Parsons Technology) trying to get this company going," he said.

Finally, he hit on the idea of becoming a domain-name registrar. He'd discovered that 1990s-era domain-name registration was expensive, hard to do and had bad customer service.

"It was a no-brainer," he said. "Offer the best price and the best service and make it simple. ... It was the best hunch I've had — it was the decision that made the company."

USATODAY.com - Founder watches Super Bowl star GoDaddy go