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eBuddy for iPhone Supports Push Notifications
Ok, so the just launched Skype 1.1 for iPhone doesn’t support push notifications, but eBuddy, a brand new app for the iPhone or iPod touch does support push notifications. What does this mean? It means you can close eBuddy and still receive instant messages (IMs) from your buddies. Further, eBuddy is an IM aggregator supporting MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Gtalk, and Facebook. Too bad they don’t support Skype though like fring does. eBuddy also supports Google Android phones.
Check out the features for eBuddy on the iPhone & iPod touch:
- One buddy list for MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Gtalk, and Facebook
- Stay online when you exit the app
- Get push notifications for incoming messages when you exit the app*
- Reconnect automatically if connection is lost
- Get offline messages after reconnecting
- Get new message alerts & typing alerts in the chat screen
- Easily switch between chats by swiping your screen
- Shake your iPhone or iPod Touch to send a buzzer
- Display pictures, personal message and status
- Emoticons & buzzers
- Sound & vibration
- Multiple IM networks
- Multiple accounts for each IM network
- Buddy list management
- Offline messages
- Group chat support
Push notifications for incoming messages are only available if you have the latest iPhone 3.0 software on your device. eBuddy will also soon be adding landscape mode. Oh, and did I mention unlike similar app Beejive ($9.99) & IM+ with Push ($9.99), eBuddy is a free app in the Apple App store? Some minor complaints include it only supports push for up to 30 minutes and it doesn’t support file sharing (audio, picture, etc.). Still for a free IM aggregator app, this one is definitely a must for the iPhone! 
Whatcha waitin’ for? Go grab this cool app now!
Tags: AIM, android, apple, ebuddy, facebook, google, Gtalk, ICQ, im, instant message, iphone, MSN, skype, Yahoo
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Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and Privacy on the Web
Ever since Netscape started storing cookies in its browsers, there has been a Jekyll-and-Hyde nature to the web. The Jekyll web promised a more personalized experience, with sites serving ads for products and services that you would actually be interested in — ads that are more like useful information and less like glaring interruptions. The […]
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Yahoo Touts Its Tweaked Version of Hadoop
At the Hadoop Summit in Silicon Valley today, Yahoo announced the availability of the Yahoo Distribution of Hadoop, a source-only version of Apache Hadoop that Yahoo uses within its own search engine.
That’s more good news for Cloudera, a Burlingame, Calif-based startup that builds commercial services around Hadoop. We reported last week that the company’s […]
Yahoo Tries to Keep Its Users From Going Elsewhere
Why visit five sites when you can just visit one? That’s the theory behind Yahoo’s rollout this week of new third-party apps and widgets on Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo and a few other sites. The company says it wants to “ease the pain of site-hopping.” In other words, it wants its users to stick around.
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Yahoo CEO Bartz: “We Are Not a Search Company”
In case you were wondering, Yahoo is not search company. That’s the word from freshly installed Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz (whom Om has liked from the beginning), in an interview with CNBC’s Jim Goldman that will air in chunks tomorrow throughout the day. When asked about competing with Google and Microsoft in search, Bartz told […]
Google vs. the Real-Time Web
Just how big a threat is the real-time web to Google? As Om has pointed out, real-time content marks a still-amorphous but important new phase of evolution in the web, allowing for the instantaneous discovery of newly added information. And Twitter and Facebook are emerging as an alternative to the traditional engine, which presents a […]
Why Location Awareness Will Make the Web More Useful
We are starting to experience the “problem of plenty” on the web, which is making it difficult to find information. It’s a problem being driven in large part by the availability of the vast number of tools that make publishing to the web a breeze.
At the same time, we are woefully lagging when […]
For Yahoo’s New Search, Form Follows Function Follows Form
Yahoo has found inspiration for its new web search functionality in an unusual place: its own pared-down mobile search results. The company discussed the latest enhancements to its search technology at an early afternoon “Chalk Talk” event today, displaying a new way of delivering results that’s both simpler and more complex than the old way.
The […]
How Internet Content Distribution & Discovery Are Changing
Every few years, the Internet — and, by extension, the web — gets bigger and better. As publishing tools get better, we share more content online. As we publish more content, more services emerge to help us find and consume that content. In the early days of the commercial web, it was magazine-like entities […]
Flickr Hit Hard By Yahoo Layoffs
Yahoo layoffs have started and seem to have hit the Flickr team. Many engineers from the service have been either laid off or are leaving on their own. Rev Dan Catt, Ashot Petrosian and Neil Kandalgaonkar were amongst those who tweeted about their exits. Catt for instance is moving back to UK. I am told […]
Think You Can Work for a Tech Company? Take this Quiz
Glassdoor, a Sausalito, Calif.-based company that tracks employee satisfaction, is opening up a new section of its site devoted to job interview questions and details about the job interview experience. According to the rankings, Amazon has a more difficult process than Google.
Glassdoor sent over a few examples of the questions asked by top […]
Coming Soon, Yet Another Re-Org at Yahoo
Given the number of re-orgs that have taken place at the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Internet company Yahoo in recent months, one could be forgiven for dubbing it “Re-org Nation.” But while many of these shakeups — all part of a larger game of musical chairs, really — were on Jerry Yang’s watch, even though he’s since […]
Is Research Yahoo’s Cloud Calling?
Struggling to maintain relevancy in the shadows of web-giant brethren like Amazon and Google, Yahoo has expanded its cloud computing research initiative. Initially available only to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Yahoo’s 4,000-core, 1.5-petabytes-of-storage M45 cluster is now available to their counterparts at the University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University […]
Amazon Brings MapReduce to AWS
Amazon today said it would bring web-scale computing power for use in workloads such as web indexing and data mining to just about anyone. The bookseller now offers MapReduce (a programming model created by Google to help deal with incredibly large data sets) using Hadoop on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service. This […]
Opera Taps Skyhook for Location Awareness
Opera Software today said it has a deal with location data provider Skyhook Wireless to bring geolocation to its browser. Users can choose to share their location with any web site and get information about related products and services in their vicinity. Web site developers use a newly launched API to build location awareness into […]
AOL, Yahoo Will Add Life Streams To Their Popular Web Services
The growing popularity of Twitter and Facebook’s news feed functionality has made everyone embrace life streaming — essentially a way for us to broadcast our daily digital lives via photos, videos, postings and status updates — as a way to consume information. In a matter of months, expect both Yahoo and AOL to come up […]
Yahoo CFO to Leave
The executive shakeup at Yahoo continues. Blake Jorgensen, Yahoo’s chief financial officer, will leave the company, according to an SEC filing made this morning. Yahoo said it has initiated a search for a new CFO and that Jorgensen will remain with the company through a transition period.
Chipmakers Hope Widgets Bring the Web to TV
Broadcom said today that it would make sure content from Chumby, a nascent widget syndication effort for televisions, would run on its chips. It’s one of a handful of integration deals Broadcom has inked with software vendors to port their content to its chips. As broadband reaches more devices, deals between chipmakers and software vendors […]
The Rise of the Mega Data Center
Behind popular web services such as Facebook, Google and Amazon’s AWS are racks and racks of computers serving up millions of pages or providing raw computing power. The use of thousands of servers to deliver one application or act as a pool of computing resources has changed the way that chipmakers and computer vendors are […]
Move Over Touch: Voice Recognition Grows Up
Nuance Communications said today it’s offering an upgrade to its line of speech recognition software aimed at carriers and handset makers. The new software includes a combination of on-handset speech recognition and server-based transcription that means it can do far more than navigate an address book. It’s also a sign that carriers are interested in […]
Taking Data Privacy Day Beyond SSNs
Today is Data Privacy Day, but instead of reading about privacy violations and pledges to make good by various corporations, pick a Congressman (or woman) and explain to them that when it comes to protecting our privacy online, our laws need a rewrite. Tell him (or her) the issues go far beyond identity theft using […]
Yahoo Should Buy the New York Times? Puh-lease
As everyone waits to find out how new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz plans to resuscitate the struggling Internet giant, in the meantime, the stress of watching Yahoo bungle one thing after another — such as coming within inches of a merger with Microsoft, only to blow the deal at the 11th hour — seems to […]
Maybe Yahoo Was Destined to Flounder
Come Tuesday, Yahoo will step up to deliver its most recently quarterly results, which I doubt will be very much fun. Still, it will be the first time recently appointed CEO Carol Bartz will have a chance to publicly address the most significant question facing the company: When is it finally going to take […]
A Fateful Month for Big Tech Companies
“As January goes, so goes the market.” Or so holds the January Barometer theory, whose originators claim it’s accurate 75 percent of the time (others are doubtful). So far, the S&P 500 is off 7 percent; if that continues, we’re in for another crappy year. When the January Barometer works, it works much better for […]
Why Yahoo Should Buy Hulu
With a new chief executive in the house, it is time for the beleaguered Internet company, Yahoo to make a bold move. Like buying fast growing online video service, Hulu. Sure it isn’t going to be cheap, but it will be money well spent and will add a new zing to the company in more ways than one.
7 Reasons Why Carol Bartz Is Right for Yahoo
Yahoo says that Autodesk’s former Executive Chairman Carol Bartz is taking over as the CEO, a major step forward for the beleaguered Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company. I agree with the choice, but she has her work cut out for her. Here are seven reasons why Bartz is the one to fix Yahoo and clean up its mess.
Why Microsoft Should Bid Again — and Yahoo Should Accept
Now that Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has finally stepped aside, removing what many saw as one of the main barriers to bringing the two companies together, Microsoft should re-ignite acquisition talks with the company. But that’s not the only reason. There are plenty of other good ones why it should do so — and why Yahoo should accept. (full story below)
After his last effort to strike some kind of a deal with Yahoo ended in failure, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said categorically that the software behemoth had no interest in making another acquisition bid for the troubled web company. Was he just bluffing? That should become obvious relatively soon, now that co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has finally stepped aside, removing what many (including Ballmer himself) saw as one of the main barriers to bringing the two companies together. But that’s not the only reason Microsoft should re-ignite acquisition talks with the company. There are plenty of other good ones why it should do so — and why Yahoo should accept.
One of the biggest reasons Microsoft should take another kick at the Yahoo can is obvious: Relatively speaking, it would cost them far less. Even if Microsoft offers a hefty premium (last time the original offering price of $31 a share was a 62-percent premium, and the software maker later boosted that to $33 a share), it should be able to acquire Yahoo for somewhere in the $18-$20 range. That’s a savings of more than 35 percent. If Yahoo was worth $45 billion in February, surely it’s worth $25 billion to Microsoft now. That’s barely more than a year’s worth of cash flow for the company.
The second major reason Microsoft should reconsider a deal is that the Redmond giant is still a distant third in the search game, and the longer it spends trying to solve that problem on its own, the worse it gets. Yahoo’s revamped search and advertising platform has its flaws, but it’s light years ahead of anything Microsoft has, or will have anytime soon. That’s worth paying for. The same rationale applies to Microsoft’s web content strategy, such as it is. Yahoo has tons of content and services, and plenty of paying customers, two things Microsoft badly needs.
And why should Yahoo accept such a bid? At this point, it really has no choice. In fact, not accepting a reasonable bid if one were to emerge would arguably be a dereliction of duty on the part of the company’s board of directors, and they are already skating on thin ice. What other options does Yahoo have right now? A merger of some kind with AOL? That would be a massive waste of shareholders’ money and time. Roping together two struggling companies is no way to create a winner. And while hooking up with Microsoft isn’t a sure bet either, such a move would offer a far better chance at success than a Yahoo-AOL tie-up. At this point, anything would be better than Yahoo on its own. The company has lost the confidence of both investors and a growing number of users, and it needs to do something — fast.
Yahoo Mail - Defer this! %#$^@$
I’m getting mighty ticked off with Yahoo! Mail lately. I have industry contacts, family, and friends that use yahoo.com email accounts and I’ve been getting this “defer” messages lately. Yahoo is using an anti-spam tactic where they “defer” the message from your SMTP server. It’s also known as “greylisting”.
Yahoo mail denies the first delivery attempt of an email (421 Message temporarily deferred). Yahoo assumes that spammers don’t try sending the same email twice, so they put the IP address of that email server in a list and then if the delivery is retried within a short amount of time, they assume that it is a good email and “accept” the SMTP connection for mail delivery. It’s too resource intensive for spammers to retry emails, which is why spammers mass blast programs give up after one try.
The SMTP protocol, configured on valid email servers, was designed such that it will retry to send an email several times before failing. Unfortunately, Yahoo’s greylisting has gotten super aggressive, often deferring tmcnet.com emails to yahoo.com email addresses so many times that eventually our email server gives up.
Even worse, often times 24 hours goes by before I get an email undeliverable message! I had an important email that I assumed was delivered and I didn’t know until a day later that it bounced!
Here’s an example:
This message could not be delivered. The TMC I.C.E. Box will not make any further attempts to deliver the message.A record of the delivery attempts made follows:
We were unable to connect to the destination server(s):
On Thu Nov 13 at 14:51 EST, Message exceeded queue lifetime. Bouncing.
On Thu Nov 13 at 14:51 EST, Connected to 216.39.53.2 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Thu Nov 13 at 11:38 EST, 68.142.202.247 failed after I sent the message. \ Remote host said: 451 Message temporarily deferred - [70] On Thu Nov 13 at 08:38 EST, Connected to 66.196.82.7 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Thu Nov 13 at 05:51 EST, Connected to 206.190.53.191 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Thu Nov 13 at 03:18 EST, 209.191.88.247 failed after I sent the message. \ Remote host said: 451 Message temporarily deferred - [70] On Thu Nov 13 at 00:58 EST, Connected to 209.191.118.103 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Wed Nov 12 at 22:51 EST, Connected to 216.39.53.1 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Wed Nov 12 at 20:58 EST, Connected to 66.196.97.250 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Wed Nov 12 at 19:18 EST, Connected to 216.39.53.3 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Wed Nov 12 at 17:51 EST, Connected to 66.196.97.250 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Wed Nov 12 at 16:38 EST, Connected to 67.195.168.31 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Wed Nov 12 at 15:38 EST, Connected to 209.191.118.103 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Wed Nov 12 at 14:51 EST, 66.196.82.7 failed after I sent the message. \ Remote host said: 421 Message temporarily deferred - 4.16.51. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Wed Nov 12 at 14:18 EST, Connected to 209.191.118.103 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Wed Nov 12 at 13:58 EST, Connected to 209.191.88.247 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
On Wed Nov 12 at 13:51 EST, Connected to 209.191.118.103 but greeting failed. \ Remote host said: 421 Message from (206.252.203.30) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
You’ll notice that the IP addresses are all different, since Yahoo has tons of email servers. TMC uses a similar greylisting feature from Sendio’s anti-spam appliance, but I have it set to “permissive” and not “aggressive”. Were I to set it to “aggresive”, then if an email came in from a different IP address, our Sendio appliance would defer the message again even if the email was previously deferred from a different IP address. By setting it to “permissive” it allows the same domain email to come in via different IP addresses.
My guess is Yahoo has their email servers set to “aggresive” and they don’t have a centralized “defer” database. So when I send an email to a Yahoo address, it’s going to be pure luck if I hit the same server again after being deferred. Thus, this will result in bouncebacks after being deferred ad infinitum.
Check out Yahoo’s own Q&A, which essentially puts the onus on the “sender” and places no blame on themselves for failed email delivery 
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421 Message temporarily deferred - [numeric code]
If you are seeing the error “421 Message temporarily deferred - [numeric code]”, where “[numeric code]” shows a specific diagnostic code (e.g., “4.16.51″, “4.16.52″) in your SMTP logs, this indicates that:
- the message you attempted to send exhibited characteristics indicative of spam,and/or
- emails from your network have been generating complaints from Yahoo! Mail users.
This is a temporary error and your mail server may automatically re-try sending emails at a later time. However, we do encourage you to examine your outbound queues to ensure that spammers are not abusing your mail server.
Are you seeing the same error consistently over an extended period of time? If so, we encourage you to provide us with detailed information, including the error and diagnostic code(s) you see in your logs, so that we can help diagnose your problem.
For bulk mailers, please visit this page to review our best practice recommendations and request assistance.
If your mail server does not primarily send bulk mailings (e.g., you run a personal, corporate, educational, or ISP mail server), please fill out this form instead.
If you’re not the administrator of the mail server in question, please contact the administrator directly with the error message you’re receiving.
This question/answer wasn’t very helpful either:
Q: As a sender, how can I ensure uninterrupted SMTP access and prioritized delivery?
A: Yahoo! Mail has become more aggressive in its acceptance of SMTP connections and denies connections by IP address when these connections do not conform to Internet standard practices. To continue uninterrupted access and prioritized delivery, you should ensure that your email address lists are well maintained. If you are conforming to these standards, then these policies should only affect you positively. We anticipate improvements in delivery times and in available connections.
If you consistently see 451 SMTP error codes you should review your email practices and policies, especially the following:
- Remove email addresses that bounce. Bounces are an indication that the mail could not be delivered because the user does not exist, no longer exists, or is unable to accept your email. List managers should remove addresses that generate bounces. A particularly popular technique for managing bounces is to use VERP to identify the recipient address that has failed.
- Examine your retry policies. Messages that receive permanent errors, such as emails sent to accounts that do not exist or are over quota, should not be retried. Permanent errors that are retried increase the likelihood that delivery will not receive the priority it deserves.
- Pay attention to the responses from our SMTP servers.The SMTP protocol defines response codes that tell your server what to do next. In particular, our server will send “500″ SMTP response codes to indicate problems that you need to investigate. For example, if an email is sent to an invalid recipient, our servers will respond with a “500″ range SMTP code, indicating a permanent error. Large numbers of emails sent to non-existant accounts may be indicative of a systemic problem. Many companies following best email list practices treat email addresses that have received a “500″ range SMTP codes specially. For instance, many companies place these addresses into a special queue that tests for continued bounces after longer and longer periods of time. This helps them maximize delivery to email addresses that exist and minimize wasted bandwidth costs.
- Don’t send unsolicited email. Make sure that all email addresses are confirmed with an opt-in process that ensures the recipient wants to receive your mail. Obtaining permission from a third party to send an email does not ensure the email is solicited. Probably the best way to confirm an email addresses before adding them to a mailing list is by using closed-loop confirmation (sometimes referred to as “full confirmation,” “full verification,” “confirmed voluntary subscription,” or “double opt-in”). In this process, after you receive a subscription request, you send a confirmation email to that address which requires some affirmative action before that email address is added to the mailing list. Since only the true owner of that email address can respond, you will know that the true owner has truly intended to subscribe and that the address is valid.
- Provide a method of unsubscribing from your list in each mail you send.
- Ensure that your mail servers are not open relays, and that your servers attempt to detect and deny connections to open proxies. At a minimum, your SMTP servers should identify the originating IP addresses that of the email and indicate this in the email headers to help you diagnose spam problems. There are a variety of open relay testers available.
If you conform to the above practices and are still seeing delivery problems, please fill out this form so that we can help you diagnose your problem. Please do not use this form to report spa
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Spurned Microsoft Scorns Yahoo
Looks like Yahoo’s Jerry Yang’s ham-handed handling of the Microsoft offer is coming back to bite him. At a Friday business lunch in Australia, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, put on the airs of a spurned lover and told luncheon attendees that he wasn’t buying Yahoo, although he might consider a search engine partnership. The Associated Press quotes Ballmer as saying:
“We made an offer, we made another offer, and it was clear that Yahoo didn’t want to sell the business to us and we moved on,” Ballmer said. “We are not interested in going back and re-looking at an acquisition. I don’t know why they would be either, frankly. They turned us down at $33 a share.”
Well it looks like Ballmer is reading his advice columns and standing up for his self-esteem. Either that or his lawyers have had a quick chat with him after his comments a few weeks ago, when he said a Yahoo deal still made sense economically.
Yahoo’s shares, which ended Thursday’s session at $13.96 a share, look like a bargain, and on Wednesday, Yang even said he’d do a deal with Microsoft after a search partnership with Google fell through. The question now becomes whether Yahoo would lower itself to a search partnership with Microsoft or if it will try to hold out for marriage. If the two companies let hurt feelings stand in the way of a partnership or a deal, it’s Google that wins.
OctroTalk adds Video Conferencing and Live Streaming to Windows Mobile
A major new version of OctroTalk (see previous write-up), an IM/VoIP/video P2P app just came out. The new version is called OctroTalk 2.0 for Windows Mobile and it now has real time video conferencing with VoIP, File Transfer, Instant Messaging and avatar support. You can even have video calls if you have OctroTalk running at both ends. The OctroTalk desktop version also supports video conferencing.
OctroTalk supports IM/VoIP and can communicate with Jabber, Google Talk, AOL/AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, and ICQ. Might have to compare this app with fring, one of my favorite multi-IM/VoIP applications.
You can also stream live video to the Web. Just add 3001@switch.octro.net to your buddy list in OctroTalk, and make a video call to this buddy. Users can look at what you are streaming by going to http://video.octro.com/ and entering the username as your JID. (Your JID is your Jabber/Gmail ID that you are using to log onto OctroTalk.
Currently, the front camera support is for Samsung Blackjack, and not for HTC phones (HTC hasn’t opened up their API).
Download it at http://www.octro.com/.
To download cab file directly to your Pocket PC or smartphone.
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