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When I checked for the source of traffic to my blog today it showed one link from Yahoo! OurCity . On exploring it further I was pleasantly surprised to see that Yahoo! OurCity for Mysore contains my Mysore Trip blog . Yahoo! posts the results of this Technorati Search in the Travel Blog section. That was cool anyway! ~mks

This post on extremetech prompted me to list out web 2.0 sites. A good discussion on Web 2.0 is here - Online Video - YouTube , Google Video , Guba , Yahoo Video , metacafe Online Office - Writely , ThinkFree , NumSum , Zoho , Google Spreadsheet , AjaxWrite , Edit Grid Maps - Google Maps , Yahoo Maps , MSN maps I have realized by now that the site list will be endless... Let's focus more on categories - Personal p2p - Pando , Perenety , Wired Reach , Bit Torrent (A little different but still) Chatting - Skype, Yahoo, Gtalk, live Online Aggregators - NetVibes , Google Reader, My Yahoo, google.com/ig, live.com Bookmarking - Delicious , StumbleUpon Photo Sharing - flickr , webshots, Yahoo photos , Riya (Photo Search) Social Networking - myspace, orkut, linkedin, facebook, friendster (this guy won the patent for social networking), hi5 and so on. Blogs Blogging - Blogger , Six Apart(typepad, livejournal) , Word Press Bloggers - There is a league built up on the net, of bloggers wit...

Surprise in the morning. My yahoo toolbar said I have got 9 unread messages so I asked it to show them to me. And surprise, the Yahoo! Mail Beta (YMB) invite was there and I immediately logged in. The interface is ok, unlike google, Yahoo! believes in stuffing your webpage with as many things as possible including jazzy ads. That's one major reason why I prefer google anyday. Coming back to YMB, the effort has been to make it look more like your desktop mail client (I know a few - Outlook (daily), Netscape (my first), Thunderbird, Evolution). But then my internet connection speed is not fast enough and that hinders the experience because if its a desktop like mail interface you would want it to be as fast. Intranet based applications will show no timelag but for internet based thing the time lag will be there even though we have a few (45 I guess) Mbps internet connectivity at work place. Unlike desktop clients this one integrates RSS Reader by default, for Outlook you need to inst...