Yahoo has finally pulled the plug on GeoCities. Though most will say “good riddance” to the home of eye-searing fluro text, badly animated GIFs and never-ending Midi tunes, Ruth Brown looks back fondly on the site that popped her HTML cherry.
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Is FarmVille the next Google?
Mobile phone apps aren’t all iPee Drunk style games. The app economy is booming, with Zynga, creators of FarmVille, being touted as the next big thing, while Apple’s App Store dominates the market.
RIP GeoCities: a loss for fluro text, animated GIFs and endless Midi files
Today, Yahoo is finally euthanising GeoCities, the original free, design-you-own webpage service where many netizens got their first taste of web mastery and popped their HTML cherries. Vale.
Rupert the Sun King’s moral posture takes on a slouch
Over the weekend, Rupert Murdoch used some nasty language at the so-called World Media Summit in Beijing to slag off the likes of Google and Yahoo, describing them as content “kleptomaniacs” because they aggregate News Corporation’s content.
A tale of two search engines
Yahoo actually reaches the same number of internet users as Google — but earns about a tenth of the profit. CNNMoney explains how two seemingly similar search companies can have such differing levels of success.
Crikey wrap: Yahoo + Microsoft = Google killer?
Yahoo has 20% of the search engine market, Microsoft 8% and Google 65%. So it was perhaps a no-brainer that Microsoft and Yahoo would eventually hook up to defeat their common enemy. Here’s what pundits are saying about the deal.
The search is over: Yahoo gives in to Microsoft
Yahoo has officially given up on trying to best Google in the search engine game, finally reaching a partnership deal with Microsoft after years of negotiations and scrapping their own search engine in favour of the software giant’s new model, Bing.
Yahoo pulls the plug on Geocities
Pioneers of free user-designed WYSIWYG sites, Geocities, is closing. Fans of flashing, fluro text and eye-searing backgrounds mourn.
Media briefs: High class ladies: how they roll in Cairns
Cairns Post readers on how they’ll spend their $900, SMH’s Photoshop fail, and China defies the media trends.
Is Google’s brand in trouble?
After a decade of near-universal love, is the honeymoon over for Google?
Briefly Business: Octaviar, Allco, Microsoft vs Yahoo
Octaviar boss jumps from role … Allco struggles to find Mobius buyer … BG wants free gas … After deal dies, Yahoo weighs its next move.
