EhCafe » Mohamad http://www.EhCafe.com Chit-chat about tech, life, and fun, eh? Thu, 06 May 2010 22:44:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Slow demise of yahoo.com http://www.EhCafe.com/2010/05/06/slow-demise-of-yahoo-com/ http://www.EhCafe.com/2010/05/06/slow-demise-of-yahoo-com/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 22:44:14 +0000 Mohamad http://www.EhCafe.com/?p=306 Ever since 2008, there has been a big decline in yahoo.com as a portal or as a search engine or even as a news aggregator. I don't think yahoo will survive any longer as a major portal on the net. Even the concept of a portal is growing old with the new age of social media. Unless it reinvents itself it is slowly going down. The quality of the site went down, the top news is mainly hollywood gossip connected with mediocre value. Apparently the news editor/algorithm is highly entertainment oriented. Check out BBC for example, it has a good balance of news categories. The most popular photos feature for instance are years old and very dysfunctional. Yahoo will be around, but it lost its commanding position and slowly receding in its net footprint.
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That's a big feat. Solaris, SPARC, MySQL, Java are now part of Oracle. 
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"A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the planning approval was "yet another step that shows and proves Israel is not ready for peace"."
Arab 'leaders': Oh really! what can we do?!
- Nothing, as usual!
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http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10363889-233.html

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http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/live-from-apples-its-only-rock-and-roll-event/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Sheba%27s_Gazelle extinct

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Gazelle extinct

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Gazelle extinct

[from wiki]: Currently, the genus Gazella is widely considered to contain about 13 species. Four further species are extinct, the ones I just mentioned. What a coincidence!

 

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mahjoob

To many in the Arab world, Michael Jackson was the first ambassador of American music and pop culture; mainly during 80s before satellite TV becoming mainstream, and before the advent of internet to the region. He will truly be missed, such a legendary musician and performer.. As Jermaine said: May Allah be with you, Michael, always.
 

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Nice video and production.. with a little bit of lip synching! :) I guess this is a norm that is followed for shows whenever no music band is live on stage but only the singer. Nevertheless it works and merely unnoticeable.

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