Discontinued and Shut down Yahoo service II

Yahoo

This article is a continuation of the previous post “Discontinued and Shut Down Yahoo Services” and following other yahoo services that have been Discontinued and Shutdown :

Bix

launched in July 2006 and Shut down on June 30, 2009

blo.gs

Acquired  by Yahoo in June 2005. On April 2009 the service has been transferred from Yahoo to Automattic, the business that runs WordPress and WordPress.com.

del.icio.us

Acquired on 9th December 2005 and The service was sold to AVOS, owned by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, on April 27, 2011.[2][3]

Fire Eagle

user Location Storage that Launched by Yahoo on 13th august 2008 and Closed on 7th February 2009

Jumpcut.com

Free Video Editing and Hosting Web that Lunched Alpha version in January 2006 and beta version public on 4th april 2006, then acquired by yahoo in October 2006 And closed on 15th June 2009.

 

Kelkoo

Kelkoo is Shopping search engine and European Comparison products service that founded in Paris by  Pierre Chappaz and Mauricio Lopez in 1999.Acquired by Yahoo in 2004 and Sold it to Jamplant on 21st November 2008.

Rocketmail

First Free Webmail Service that launched in 1990s. Acquired by yahoo in 1997 for $92 Million USD and Later Closed it. in 2008 Yahoo Allow new user that sign up under rocketmail.com.  now, if you access rocketmail.com you will be directed to yahoo mail.

Yahoo Buzz

Social bookmark and RSS Service that Launched on 26th april 2008 and Closed 21st April 2011

Yahoo! Auctions

This service built for against ebay.com that launched on 1st February 1999 and closed on 16th June 2007

Yahoo! Avatars

Yahoo! Avatars allows users to create personalized character images, also known as avatars, which are displayed on Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Answers.

Yahoo! Babel Fish

Formerly this is Altavista translation Service that launched on 9th desember 1997at babelfish.altavista.com and acquired by Yahoo in July 2003. On 9th may 2008 changed to babelfish.yahoo.com then on 30th may 2012 web address redirected to www.microsofttranslator.com and now is http://www.bing.com/translator/

Yahoo! Briefcase

Yahoo online File storage that provide 30MB that started in August 1999 and shut down on 30th march 2009.

Yahoo! Gallery

shut down on 14th July 2009 and redirected to pulse.yahoo.com

Yahoo! Go

Java based phone application that closed down on 12th  January 2010.

Yahoo! HotJobs

Job Seekers site service that launched in 1996 and acquired by yahoo in 2002 for $436 million USD. In February 2010 it acquired by monster.com

Yahoo! Kickstart

Professional network for college students, alumni,  employers, recent graduates that launched on 5th November 2007 and shutdown in 2008.

Yahoo! Live

Live time Broadcast Video service by Yahoo that launched 6th February with Limited Preview and closed on 3rd December 2008.

Yahoo! Meme

Micro blogging site like twitter that launched in August 2009 and Discontinued on 25th May 2012.

Yahoo! Personals

Free and paid online dating service. Discontinued on 21st July 2010

Yahoo! Podcasts

search for and view podcasts service  discontinued in November 2007

Yahoo! Remote

The service was closed in 1999

Yahoo! Widgets

Free application desktop runtime environment for Mac OS and Windows. Acquired by yahoo in 2005 and closed on 2nd march 2012

And other site that closed are :

Yahoo! Player

Yahoo! Greetings

Yahoo! Assistant

 

Discontinued and Shut Down Yahoo Services

yahoo

Yahoo is a multinational company that established the United States in 1995 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Yahoo is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” which was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo. in the 1990s known as the Yahoo search engine site, web directory, and web portals. Yahoo is known fond of building services and acquiring several sites with specific services for business purposes. not all services are able to compete because of year to year there’s always a closed yahoo services.

The following services have closed yahoo:

  • Yahoo! 360 °, a site that combines web portals, social networking and blogging share. users can create a personal blog, write reviews, information, share photos and able to see friends are online. This service was launched on the 29th March 2005 and closed on 13th July 2009.
  • Geocities, a web hosting service founded in 1994 and acquired by Yahoo! in 1999. The service was closed on 26th October 2009 and a lot of missing information on the removal of millions of web pages. but some are still many pages can still be accessed in oocities.com.
  • Yahoo Mash, Yahoo or social networking “mashup”  are only running one year starting from September 2007 and closed on 28th September 2008.
  • Yahoo! Tech, a website that provides information, advice and buying guides user settings. This service was launched in May 2006 and shut down on 11th March 2010.
  • Yahoo Photos, unlimited photo storage service that allows users to create photo albums. but the photos must be jpg or jpeg extension. launched March 2000 and closed on 20th September 2010.

There are many other services that have been closed and will be discussed in the next post

Yahoo Bid Tumblr $1 Billion Dollars

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Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo is reportedly in talks with David Karp, CEO purchases Tumblr Tumblr linked by Yahoo. Yahoo preparing a bid of $ 1 billion USD for the purchase Tumblr to become one of the social media yahoo products.
As we know if Yahoo has now suffered a setback in business after losing a service to compete with Google in the search engine. This is evident from the number of products covered yahoo. Yahoo products are closed because it is not able to compete with its rivals.
Some of last year Yahoo began to look for opportunities that can be used to build a business empire on the internet as it used to. This is applied by buying some of the sites that could lift Yahoo considered to be one of Google’s competitors. Yahoo now will be more focus to products and services such as social media to be one of Tumblr’s after.
As Adweek reported that Yahoo are in talks with David Karp, CEO tumblr and have bid with Fantastic value of$ 1 billion USD. If yahoo buy Tumblr, then yahoo will have a potential spot to put their ads.

This news is only just the beginning stages of talks and talks might be in vain. Yahoo trying to reclaim the internet users.

Disable Startup Program On Windows 7 Or Vista

windows 7 startup time

As a computer user, you only use the computer for specific interests such as school projects, writing, office work, and others. however, many of the computer users are not aware of the problems that occurs on the computer. usually they ask for help from the IT staff, computer technicians, or computer store to fix their computers either software or hardware repair. when using browsing using computers, many computer users who install the programs offered on the internet with software functions to increase computer speed, speed internet and others. on the contrary the application does not really matter and even overload due to frequent computer goes on when the new computer is  commonly Turn on or  we used to be called the StartUp Process.

with the number of applications that must be loaded when startup, then the computer will run slower because of the memory load application that will processed. when the used memory is not sufficient, then the computer will be hang and not run at all. Solution to speed up this process, is to disable startup programs that are not necessary. Here are the steps to disable the program in Windows 7 and Vista:

  • Click windows> write on search programs  text box> type “msconfig” (without the quotes) then enter / OK

msconfig

  • Select the startup tab (you’ll see the application or program that runs when startup)
  • Then uncheck the unnecessary programs such as additional programs that are not so important. in the command column, you can see the location of the originating program and I recommend not changing the settings file that runs on windows

startup system config

  • If  you think Enough, select OK
  • Then a dialog box that prompts you to restart the computer for the changes to the system configuration. you can choose Restart to restart now and instantly apply the changes par with or Exit Without Restart to exit without restarting and configuration changes will be made when the computer is shut down or restarted later.

system configuration dialog box for exit msconfig

After you restart, you will immediately feel the difference in the speed of Windows startup as a result of disable startup programs.

KakaoTalk Join with AdPOPcorn To Bring Ads To Messaging Platform

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Another move in the oh so hot cellular written SMS messages area today: South Korea’s Kakao Inc, which features the KakaoTalk cross-platform cellular written SMS messages app, has tattooed an contract with online promotion company IGAWorks to carry its cellular ad item, adPOPcorn, to the writing messages app.

IGAWorks will also provide adPOPcorn to action designers whose products incorporate with KakaoTalk. In an conversation, the several said the adPOPcorn promotion system provides “in-game/in-app incentives ad provides, such as incorporated promotion pop-ups, higher adjustment amount and visitors, to group and cellular media programs while providing in-game products and other benefits to players”.

Cellular texting organizations are using a wide range of techniques to monetize the large user-bases they have developed up by providing 100 % free texting services. It’s worth flagging that texting massive (and KakaoTalk rival) WhatsApp has taken a community position against promotion – but the company does (generally) cost annually registration charges to monetize its service, after a first 100 % free year. Other texting applications, such as Line, have been using in-app entertainment-focused buys such as decals and game-related material to produce income.

KakaoTalk, which now has 90 thousand customers, reserved a benefit of $6.3 thousand for financial 2012 on income of $45 thousand, according to Forbes. Developing out its ad system is an apparent way to complement earnings from the 100 or so game playing applications on its system (KakaoTalk requires a 20% cut of activity sales). The large of KakaoTalk’s 2012 income came from activity revenue, according to Forbes – so the present information means it’s including a mobile promotion sequence to its bow.

KakaoTalk has also formerly declared programs to make its own Android operating system launcher, following Facebook’s release of Home: a messaging-centric skin for Android operating system gadgets, developed to keep customers communicating within Facebook or MySpace, rather than via third celebration applications. Last night Facebook or MySpace declared House downloading have achieved close to one thousand. It’s uncertain whether KakaoTalk’s launcher could show adPOPcorn ads later on.

Share Your Unique Articles with Flipboard Android 2.0

Flipboard Android 2.0

Flipboard, the popular news-reading app, is making it simpler for people to add  and track  their unique content to Flipboard with the newest journal curation features for Android operating system gadgets.
The journal curation function, which allows customers gather articles around a specific concept or topic into a Flipboard journal is now available for Android operating system mobile phones and pills, and online as a Web-based modifying device that also provides analytics.
Flipboard presented the journal curation function for iOS in delayed April, getting six thousand customers since the release. Its system of 56 thousand customers have created one thousand publications so far.
Eugene Wei, Flipboard’s Head of Product says the organization’s users list is divided equally between iOS and Android operating system customers, so he desires Android operating system 2.0 to have similar results to its Apple company version.

Flipboard’s journal development begins with people hitting the “+” key on products within Flipboard or using the app’s bookmarklet to preserve products from the Web. The new Android operating system edition will also let customers preserve products from other applications, like YouTube, or a Web web browser or their own exhibits. In-app discussing allows customers to discuss the journal with sms information, e-mail or Pinterest.
The new Web-based Flipboard allows curators have more control, Wei said. It allows customers change the order of their products, remove content and view what products from their publications have been distributed the most by other customers.

With this new concentrate on journal curation, Flipboard also needs to concentrate on customers who do not make material. Half of Flipboard’s customers only use the app for studying, according to Wei. Flipboard’s next concentrate is on enhancing look for, which means developing better journal suggestions for customers and developing an easy way to look for  publications between buddies.
Adding curated publications beefs up Flipboard’s financial institution of material, which will help the organization’s google look for overall, he said. The company has also hit a cope with The Economical Periods, allowing Economical Periods members study the newspaper’s material, which is behind a paywall online, through Flipboard. It currently has an identical cope with the New You are able to Periods.

What is Forex Part 01?

forex

Forex Trading or so-called Forex stands for foreign exchange trading is the buying and selling of foreign currency exchange rates. in forex trading into 3 parts:

  1. Forex currency, usually using two different currencies for example EUR / USD.
  2. commodities, are commonly traded goods such as gold, silver, etc.
  3. stock, a sale of securities owned by a person and related to ordinary business. such as Apple Inc., Microsoft, Google, Facebook.

Forex how systems work?

value of the price of a commodity, currency exchange rates, and the stock is always fluctuating or constantly moving up and down. The simple logic we will benefit when buy low and sell high. example: we bought 100g (1 ounce) of gold at a price of $ 1.700 / troy ounce then we save. and sell them when the price reached $ 1.900 / troy ounce. then we will get a profit of $ 200.

What affects the price fluctuations of Forex trading?

on forex currency, economic stability is very influential as the value of exports, imports, issues, etc.. or in commodities, the law of supply and demand can be used as a basic reference. wherein when bidding more than the demand then the price will go down and vice versa prices will rise when demand increases and supply decreases.

enough so little basic forex review, I will probably continue in the next post

Get Avast Internet Security License File

avast internet security license file

Avast Internet Security is the best antivirus package of Avast with full features. you need to activate Avast Internet Security License File that is included in the purchase antivirus package.

A glance about Avast

Avast is one of the best antivirus that can protect your computer from harmful files such as viruses, worms, malware, and others. This can be seen from the number of computer users who use Avas as their antivirus. Avast antivirus provides two categories namely Anvirus Free and Avast Internet security. Internet security has been chosen because it has the most full-featured, there are:

  1. Blocks viruses & spyware
  2. Allows assistance from a geek friend
  3. Secures shopping & banking
  4. Runs risky programs safely
  5. Blocks hacker attacks
  6. Secures personal data
  7. Stops annoying SPAM
  8. Blocks phishing scams

How to get avast internet security license file,

you can buy the original Avast computer store or buy them online at a price of $ 49.99 (for protection of 1 year), $ 74.99 (for protection of 2 years), and $ 99.99 (for 3 years protection).

But some time ago, there was a Cracker Chinese origin (Codename: zenix) which creates tools to include avast internet security license file valid till 2050. Avas so you can enjoy the full internet security protection for free.

Now I leave it to you to choose which one will you use to protect your computer.

Although Zenix has created avast internet security license file valid till 2050, but I do not guarantee that Avast is still able to function in the next 3 or 5 years. as the avast will soon act in a thousand ways that the illegal way can be overcome so as not to get bigger losses.

Probably the best advice from me is to buy a Legal license for your avast internet security either buy online or offline (computer stores, software, etc)