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Here’s an announcement on their site:

Yahoo! acquires Xoopit.
Xoopit is joining Yahoo! to make the world’s best email even better.

Yahoo! will be integrating both our photo sharing applications and our content indexing and discovery technology into Yahoo! Mail and other services over the coming months.

Xoopit has emerged as a leader in mail applications, indexing and content discovery. Yahoo! has recognized that Xoopit’s technology elevates photos to the forefront of people’s everyday email experiences. Mail is the original online photo sharing experience, and combining these two products results in an evolved inbox experience. Yahoo! Mail users can expect to see their mail become even more efficient, social and fun!

The Xoopit team would like to thank our users for all the support and guidance in developing a service that people love. We would also like to thank our angels and venture investors, Charles Moldow from Foundation Capital and Theresia Gouw Ranzetta from Accel Partners for wisdom and commitment along the way!

The official announcement from Yahoo! can be found here.

Dear Xoopit team, I hope you’ll never share our Gmail account information to Yahoo! Thanks and looking forward to the Yahoo! Mail integration.

Yahoo Canada (http://yahoo.ca) now sports the new (old) logo. But still no sign of the new look and feel.

Yahoo! Argentina is now sporting a new (old) logo on it’s homepage.

Yahoo! has been using the purple logo ever since on some of their corporate websites and campus but never on any of it’s homepage.

Personally, I like it better than the red one. It’s consistent to their offline branding.

Yes. ASCII email spam is here and we hate it. This is what I got today (below).

There were no links on the email which means people will never have to click on something. But still, it’s annoying.

Email providers, please do something!

There’s a new security tool that Surf Jack that allows one to hijack HTTP connections to steal cookies – even ones on HTTPS sites. Works on both Wifi (monitor mode) and Ethernet.

Here’s a proof of concept to steal session cookies on HTTP and HTTPS sites that do not set the Cookie secure flag.

It’s really a scary to see that even Gmail was vulnerable before to these types of attack. So, how about Yahoo Mail? And what more if you use Hotmail Live? Makes you really think if there is such thing as 100% security nowadays.

We’ve finally completed our partnership with SimplyHired, Indeed, WowJobs and Kapehan for job aggregation and distribution. SimplyHired is also providing a job search engine for LinkedIn Canada and MySpace UK.

What does this mean to you as an employer?
Aside from our great visibility at search engines (Google, Yahoo! and Live), your job ads will have further exposure thru our job aggregators. This exponentially increases the visibility of your job openings to job seekers who are visiting social networks and other services.

How do I get my job there?
SimplyHired, Indeed and WowJobs only list jobs that have specific locations such as city and state/province. So next time you post a job, make sure you don’t forget to choose a city and state/province. This is however, not applicable for country-wide job postings.

New Employer Dashboard Features

• View your subscription details
• View and print your invoices
• Did your subscription expire? No problem. You can login and re-subscribe inside your dashboard under “Settings > Subscription”
• We have more updates on our blog…

Mployd is an honorable mention at the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards

We have received an honorable mention at the recent 2008 SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards and we are fast becoming one of the largest job posting website on the Internet today and slowly taking market share away from some of the largest employment job sites.

Mployd Affiliate Network Launched

We are proud to announce the launch of our new affiliate program. This will allow website owners to make some extra cash promoting Mployd. So, if you want to monetize your existing traffic, sign up as an affiliate now!

More information here

I just saw Alpha Beta today. It’s a search engine at Yahoo! Australia. One of the not-so-good-name branding by a Yahoo! product.

What? It’s Alpha? No. It’s Beta. No! It’s Alpha Beta. Whatever dude…

Here’s Shrek. The secret Mac zealot.

Inspired with the secret life of toys group at Flickr. There’s more here and here.

–aj

It’s official and this one ends the long saga of Microsoft’s acquisition offer to Yahoo! where they rejected. It’s also all over the blogosphere here, here and here.

A few words. User interface is awesomely cool and very new!

Food for the eyes. Full screen view, customizable new skins, tabbed messenger windows, new emoticons behavior (pops big and slides to a smaller one), Mac-like auto-save preference (no more clicking “Apply” to save settings), all power-less clutter, resizable contact list, and lastly hard to believe – no ADS!

Plainly, it’s very cool.

Download it now while it’s hot! (Vista only)

–aj