Time it around Spring this year, that Yahoo Publisher Network will open it’s doors to International Publishers… as taken from the search engine journal’s article on Y!PN’s expansion plans this spring…

4. International Rollout : Global expansion beyond the United States to English and non-English speaking countries

Yahoo has been treading slowly on it’s Y!PN suite, which competes directly with Google’s adsense, by accepting only US based publishers by invitation during it’s beta phase.

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From tech.memeorandum

It’s official…Disney Buys Pixar for $7.4 billion…which lands Apple’s Steve Jobs a seat on the board of Disney and makes Pixar’s John Lasseter chief creative officer of the animation studios…

Considering that Steve Jobs originally bought Pixar from George Lucas for$10 Million… talk about valuation… *snicker*

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From CNET

So what’s with zillow?…

A stealth startup that’s suppossed to be VC funded by up to $144 Million (reminds me of the pre dot-com bust excitement)… the reason that they are so well funded is because their business model is touted to be a paradigm shift for the real estate brokerage industry… not to mention that they have the former expedia guys calling the shots for them.

That just about leaves current brokers quaking right now because it might leave them without a profession if they manage to get buyers and sellers directly together…

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A friend once remarked that he wanted to throw his wife out a window when she was pregnant because she was just too damn cranky and sensitive… well I can assure you that no wife tossing ever occurred after that statement.

Now of course I can attest that I can relate to him… not that I’m wanting to prove whether pregnant wives are aerodynamic or not… but rather that pregnant women are indeed a sensitive bunch.

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