Yahoo, Microsoft link IM services

Consumers using the Yahoo Messenger or MSN Messenger programs will be able to exchange instant messages, see the presence of their contacts, share emoticons and add friends from either service, the companies said. Interoperability is expected to kick in during the second quarter of 2006

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Such is the latest cooperation between two giant Microsoft and Yahoo. Such action is quite apparent an effort against strong competition from Google that recently enter the IM market. In recent months, Microsoft and Yahoo must have lost a fair bit of their mail users to Google’s Gmail. Such alliances will no doubt improve the value of Microsoft MSN and Yahoo IM services.

Google Launched Google Reader Beta & Google Video Beta

Google launched Google Reader recently.

Google Reader

Google Read is available via http://reader.google.com and it enable you to read all your favorite blogs in one single location. To add a blog to reader, all that you need to do is to add the RSS Feed URL of the blog concern.

Similarly, Google akso launched it Vidoe Search Beta.

Google Vidoe

With this new Search, searching video will never be more earsier.

Google Video Search is available via http://video.google.com