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Tunome es un servicio web que te permite tener una dirección de correo electrónica personalizada a tu gusto, utilizando algunos de los nombres de dominio gratuitos que posee.

Una vez que incluímos el nombre que deseamos y seguimos el enlace que dice “Find your new email”, nos entrega una lista de posibles direcciones de email de las cuáles elegimos la que más nos gusta. 

Luego pasamos al proceso de registración que incluye el ingreso de nuestros datos, password, etc. y listo.

Nos enteramos por el blog de Yahoo, Yodel Anecdotal, que están trabajando duro en el diseño y prueba de la nueva cara de Yahoo.  Además leyendo en otros sitios de la web comentan que ya se puede ver en ciertas partes de USA y UK, aunque por ahora solo es para algunos privilegiados.

If you’re sending a lot of email from your application of via email marketing, you need to ensure you’re site is whitelisted with the major Internet Service Providers. I’ve previously written about whitelisting with AOL and Yahoo! Today we found out that there may be an issue where our site may be being blocked by Comcast. Comcast does have some info to tell whether or not they are blocking your email.

• Google launches its Official Traditional Media Blog
• Google Apps save One million pounds for UK construction firm
• Google now “captures” Flash Content
Source: Tech Bytes at Use Bytes

Here are two great articles recently by Business Week. Have a look

Advertisers Invite Web Judgment

Didn’t Yahoo choose India to launch its Search Glue thingie sometime recently.

Now the news is that AOL has launched AOL Video Portals in India along with Canada and Taiwan. United Kingdom, France and Germany will get these AOL Video Portals subsequently in this year.

AOL Video Portals are built around AOL’s video search technology, Truveo, which has indexed, or searched and sorted related information on than 170 million videos in 16 countries.

This slide most likely produces moans and groans when I display it in front of my fellow techies. I have to show it, though. There have been very discreet movements on the web in the past. We had Web 0.0 which was basically text and bulletin boards. Remember those days? Waiting for the image to load line by line with your 1200 baud modem! (Yes, I know I’m old!)

Web History

Web 1.0 really became the hoard and control era. AOL (remember ‘enter keyword CHEVY) had a great grip on the net and more and more gateway sites appeared on the Internet. If you wanted someone to find you, it cost you dearly with a banner ad on a regional website.

Ya han pasado las 3 semanas que Microsoft le dió al directorio de Yahoo para aceptar la oferta de 31 dólares por cada acción.   Como sabemos el directorio de Yahoo no aceptó la oferta y comenzó a coquetear con Google.  Pero ahora, de acuerdo a un informe del New York Times en su blog Bits el pasado Jueves, no se sabe a ciencia cierta si comenzará a presionar a los accionistas, como había prometido hace 3 semanas.

In case you have not heard this is the latest on MANGY.

Wait a minute. What does MANGY mean ?

MANGY stands for Microsoft-AOL-News Corp-Google-Yahoo

Here are the news bytes -

News Corp., AOL Pursue Yahoo Deals
Yahoo Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations, a move aimed at thwarting Microsoft Corp.'s effort to acquire Yahoo, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

AOL says - “Actually, we’ve been doing this for quite a while. In 2005 we decided that the best way to serve our end users was to make the AIM service a center of innovation by opening our platform to the developer community.”

“We started by making AIM Presence APIs available, then rapidly expanded our Open [...]