In another step towards the future, a page on the past is closed: GeoCities is being shuttered today by Yahoo, which purchased the free website host in 1999.
GeoCities circa 1996:
In a move that puts more emphasis on the bottom line, Yahoo is nudging new customers to its paid hosting service.
Of course, there’s another giant that still has a free, although not as well-known, hosting service: Google.
RIP GeoCities.
ComScore shows Yahoo Mail is still the world’s leader in e-mail services, but the bad news (for Yahoo) is that Google’s Gmail is the fastest growing service. Hotmail is still #2, and AOL just slipped to #4 after Gmail who leapfrogged them to go to #3.
Four years ago when we sized up Hotmail vs Yahoo vs Gmail, Gmail was the clear winner and has only become progressively better. Witness all of the improvements and feature additions that they’ve [Google] have put into Gmail.
For example, this week Google showed off another killer feature – the ability to import your e-mail from other accounts into Gmail.
Do yourself a favor and get a Gmail account.
Gmail has 2 cool new features. The first can be really useful for those of us who frequently get e-mail from all over the world – language translation. Just head into your Gmail Labs section, look for Message Translation and enable. Messages in foreign languages will now have a link to translate. I was surprised that some Chinese messages were translated into very readable text.
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Palringo, a mobile Instant Messenger aggregator, is now available for the Android platform.
Palringo handles IM services like MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber and more in 1 client.
You can get the app on the Android Market.
