Retrosift Scans Your Emails for Every (Cringeworthy) Photo You’ve Ever Sent

A new app that sifts through old photos. Yes, you really wore that.
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As Skype Skips Through Approvals — What’s the Deal With the Deal?

As the deal officially closes, what’s next?
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Apple’s Store, Microsoft’s Hotmail and SkyDrive All Taking Thursday Evening Off

Apple’s online store had the “be back soon” message that often presages new products being added, though it was unclear if this was the reason for Thursday’s outage.
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Revamped Yahoo Mail Peels Off Beta Stamp

Aiming to regain ground in its battle against Gmail and Hotmail, Yahoo is ready with a final version of its latest mail software. The new Yahoo mail aims to integrate more kinds of communication, including updates from Facebook, Twitter and more.
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EBay Hires Ex-Yahoo Exec Don Bradford to Head Up Social

Ebay has hired Don Bradford to fill a new position at the company in charge of leading its social commerce efforts.

What Facebook Messages Means and Why You Should Care

Facebook yesterday launched an interesting product that tries to get at the heart of how highly connected people communicate casually. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others from the company reiterated over and over again (see my live notes; the repetition is excessive) that the product is “not email.”

No Facebook User Emails for Google–But Yahoo and Microsoft Already Have Access

Facebook and Google are hardly friends these days, and they’re having more and more trouble containing their dislike.

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Flickr Gets More Social

Not content to let its users merely find photo-sharing friends and acquaintances, Flickr will now start proactively suggesting People You May Know on the service. Suggestions are based on your contacts plus your contacts’ contacts. Not thrilled with some of the suggestions? Dismiss them and the system will offer up a new batch. Users also are now able to import contacts from Facebook in addition to Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.

Giving ‘Ribbon’ Its ‘Classic’ Look

Walt answers readers’ questions on Microsoft’s ‘Ribbon;’ the AT&T micro cellular tower and email alternatives to Outlook.

Microsoft Comms Head Smacks Back by the Numbers (Plus a "Rocky"-Inspired Internal Email!)

After what he considered weeks of unfair press coverage and running down of Microsoft, the software giant’s Corporate VP of Corporate Communications, Frank Shaw, posted a pugnacious corporate blog today that trotted out some impressive numbers about Microsoft’s business. Of course, he also took the opportunity to put up some not-so-much figures about competitors such as Apple, Netflix, Salesforce.com and, of course, Google. And this comes after a fists-swinging email to staff!