
Yesterday when I tried to 'upgrade' my myspacefakirscanada account to profile 2.0., my profile and account disappeared altogether. Myspace's response to my email requesting help getting my profile back? An email promoting the "benefits" of using profile 2.0.
Why Yahoo Japan Is Worth Nearly As Much As YahooSource: TechCrunch
Yahoo's stake in Yahoo Japan is often cited as one of its most valuable assets, and indeed Yahoo is considering selling it as a quick fix to appease angry shareholders in the U.S.
How Accurate Are Listings On Real Estate Sites?Source: TechCrunch
How comprehensive are these sites, and how accurate are their listings? Trulia offers 3.5 million listings nationwide, and Zillow has 3.1 million. But people look for houses in local markets, not nationwide. What matters is comprehensiveness withing local market
Yahoo Buzz Opens Doors To EveryoneSource: TechCrunch
Until now only a hundred or so invited publishers could post news to Buzz. This was a big plug - Yahoo pushes a few Yahoo Buzz stories to their home page every day, resulting in huge, server-melting traffic surges to the lucky third party sites.

So with the recent release of the 2.0 firmware and the new App Store, I thought about possibly trying to develop something on the iPhone and iPod Touch platform. So I picked up an 8GB iPod Touch for $199, a steal.

A patent scheduled for sale next month in San Francisco could threaten some of the biggest players on the internet leading Web 2.0.
Exposed: iPhone 2.0's parental controls, advanced calculatorSource: Apple Insider
Leaked copies of Apple's iPhone software version 2.0, not due for public consumption until June, reveal a glimpse at upcoming features such as parental controls and a more advanced version of the handset's embedded calculator application.
Wordpress 2.5 Demo Site Source: wp.chrisjohnston.org
A demo site for the most current development version of WordPress. Version 2.5 has a scheduled release in March/April of 2008

Including Gmail! You can pretty display any website as a local application using Mozilla's Prism (Beta). It's multi-platform, but Windows is the most supported as of now. All you do is run the app, and an explorer "Properties"- like window opens up. Type in the URL of the site.
The Liberal Twelve Day of Christmas (Video and Lyrics)Source: forthardknox.com
On the twelve day of Christmas, the liberals gave to me: Twelve senators failing, Eleven percent approval, Ten paychecks burning, Ninety-thousand freezing, No more secret ballots, Six troop-funding cuts, Hillary's Woodstock Museuuuuuum, Four bucks a gallon, Al Franken ranting, …
PS3 firmware 2.00 Launches TomorrowSource: ps3fanboy.com
You've been waiting for it. Firmware 2.00 is finally coming out this week: tomorrow, to be precise. This update, which has been a year in the making, was supposed to herald a new era of functionality for PS3. Many expected in-game XMB, additional video codecs, and more.

As the information flow has increased with not just the media but the blogs providing more and more analysis and news, it is tough to really sift through the important and discard the unimportant. A lot of news and information also comes through one's emails.
Microsoft new appsSource: CNET News.com
popfly, silverlight, cdragon new microsoft 2.0 services