Product Pulse – May 30, 2008
Posted May 30th, 2008 at 11:05 pm by Nicki Dugan
Filed in: Product Pulse
What would this world be without wascally wabbits, stuttering pigs, or suffering succotash? A century ago today, the voice of Bugs Bunny (and Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepe LePew, Wile E. Coyote…) let out its first utterance. Happy Birthday, Mel. Now check out what we drew up this week:
- Now, dammit: We’re all impatient, Blackberry-wielding, microwave-cooking, Tivo-recording fiends. Why should we wait a minute longer than we have to for our stock quotes? Yahoo! Finance gets that impulsive nature and found a way to get you real-time stock quotes, courtesy of BATS Trading. And it’s on the house. Free. Now. More here.
- Commons comments welcome: The Commons photo collection on Flickr just took the 2 train to Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Museum is the third institution (after the Library of Congress and Australia’s Powerhouse Museum) to add their hidden treasures to this public photography archive. You’ll find gorgeous photos from architectural research expeditions to Egypt and the Paris Exposition in 1900. But the best thing is that these images await your input and knowledge to make the collections even richer. So tag and comment away, for the good of humanity. More here.
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Scammers, take notice
Posted May 30th, 2008 at 10:05 am by Mark Risher
Filed in: Yahoo Search Trends & News
As we’ve said before, no one ever wins the Yahoo! Lottery. And that’s simply because there is no Yahoo! Lottery. To protect you from these scammers, we’re going after them ourselves.
We recently filed a lawsuit that ought to send an unmistakable message to spammers masquerading as Yahoo! lottery commissioners, sending ...