When we last left Yahoo!, Jerry Yang (CEO) and the rest of the board had just spurned Microsoft’s $44.6 billion takeover bid for the supposedly greener pastures of potential deals with AOL, News Corporation, and/or Google. The rejection of Microsoft’s bid also put the current board on a collision course with Carl Icahn in what looked to be a battle for control of Yahoo!’s board of directors.

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Now there is a single destination to compare online brokers in one place. Geezeo expanded its user-driven Geezeo Marketplace to include ratings of online brokerage firms.

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With greater capabilities and ease of use in mind, Mikogo launches its new version with several new features backing up its cost-free solution to online meetings. Mikogo now offers new conferencing capabilities, such as meeting scheduler and a voice conferencing service, as well as an easier-to-use platform to deliver a comprehensive solution for anyone looking to collaborate over the Web.

While version 2.0 includes a tweaked interface to enhance usability, the major focus of this release is undoubtedly the addition of several new free Mikogo features. All current and future Mikogo users can now organize online meetings with the following new features:

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Round 1 Voting ends 30th Nov’08 Sunday at 11:59 pm PST (Monday 2:59 am EST, 7:59 am GMT). The great news is that anyone who placed their widgets in their blog template/sidebar … this widget will automatically convert to the ‘Final Voting Round’ widget on Wednesday. Please make sure that voting ends Sunday night and you can vote for all 26 categories once per day per e-mail address. Here is the list of 278 Nominees for Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards.

Lifeblob is a social timeline service where you can build a timeline of your life and see how it intersects with your friends and family.

Lets say that five friends go on a trip and one of them uploads the photos on his timeline - with lifeblob, these photos would also get reflected in the timelines of the other four, since they too were part of this event. Now imagine all your friends and family sharing photos in this manner and this becomes a unique way to keep everyone updated on whats going on in your life and also capture your entire life and how other people are related to it.

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Nimbuzz, free mobile communication for everyone, launches into the Apple iPhone App Store. The new iPhone app lets users call, chat and message, for free, with their friends on virtually all major instant messaging communities and social networks.

Specifically for the needs of Apple iPhone users, this will be the first complete messaging product available with landscape mode chat, IM buddy calling (including Yahoo!), and regional social network support.

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A new Israeli startup, wePapers helps students and anyone seeking academic knowledge come together to share and upload academic material, discuss what they study and mainly - find tons of quality academic documents, from lecture notes and exam to peer-reviewed articles.

wePapers is a free online web application created by two Israeli students (Hanan Weiskopf and Ehud Zamir), offers academic material from the world’s leading universities, and a knowledge-sharing platform for students and lecturers.

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