Since returning from the funeral a couple hours ago, I’ve been pouring through my inbox and my wife has been on me to return this mini-oven to the store (she doesn’t drive by choice so any long distance store runs are up to me). I can’t hold her at bay any longer. It’s time for me to move but I made some notes below of recent stories, some which are new (to me) up to the last hour and some of which were in the queue from the last few days.

- The announcement in October 2005 that Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger) and Yahoo would be allowing interoperability between the two platforms assembling the largest combined IM network over 300 million users has finally beared its first fruit along with Y! Messenger client icon on the live.com ideas page (pictured right). This is a positive news. Communication between the two networks will be via SSL. Now if they go the next mile and add Jabber functionality (thus GTalk could be included), and if Skype and other VoIP players get on board, then we actually might have a single place to use chat. Ahhh, dreams.
- Buffalo meat, anyone? It’s day #2 of Rocketboom v2.0.
- the owners of adsense.com who had since 1995 — and still have — a business on the web called Adsense Consulting (hailing from Eugene Oregon) prior to Google naming their popular contextual ads program have decided after a barrage of Google Adsense-related customer contacts to use a different domain: adsense2.com. They should have used adsense1995.com to identify how long they’ve been in business. [source: Wired]
- Apparently the feud between friends Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton won’t prevent them from agreeing to another season of the Simple Life. I won’t be watching, we are on day 23 and counting without TV.
- Allen Heckerd has sued Michael Jordan for $832 million because too many people think Heckerd looks like the famous basketball star. Looking at the pictures side by side and see very little resemblance. If this lawsuit is taken serious, the world has ended. [source: breaking windows]
- While this is news is a bit stale, I originally learned about it from Director of Product Development for Telligent who makes the .NET-powered blogging program Community Server, Scott Watermasysk pointing out that Dell has started a blog. While I’m not a huge Community Server fan (the ink blogging part is the best part), I do like how he ends the post saying: “Starting a blog is easy, keeping it up is very hard. I am hopeful Dell can keep it going for the long haul.” So true, especially for corporate blogs. When is Microsoftie Ray Ozzie going to update his? Last update: April Fool’s Day. Perhaps the single worst day of the year to stall or end a blogging stint.
- And speaking of Dell, they are planning on cutting back on those difficult to claim rebate offers just to show a cheaper price scheme. Thank goodness. Businesses should be fined that show prices that aren’t immediately available at the register. No, I mean it was really $2,000, not the $1,299 shown … and is only that price after committing to an AOL subscription for years and playing a maddening game of rebate Twister.
- WP video comments plugin looks intriguing, might demo it here or on one of our other blogs.
- Cloudy Eden Productions created a video blending and syncing the Back to the Future, Part 1 and 2 Enchantment under the Sea Dance segments.

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