Slav Ben Ari sends in this news bit from his blog – I cannot read Hebrew and can’t confirm this info:

Google’s online storage service will enter a competitive field of similar offerings from Microsoft, whenever it enters the field, that is.

Aggressive advertising, unwanted friends, and employer-snooping into social networking profiles may dull the edge of being on sites like Facebook and MySpace.

Customers with credit cards to burn found some of Yahoo’s merchants unable to process orders due to problems with the underlying technology.

The broadening growth of Fox Interactive Media’s many properties has prompted News Corp to prepare FIM Serve, an online ad network, for deployment in and out of the company’s Internet reach.

Dilbert’s creator has been a regular blogger, contributing frequently to his site to the delight of his fans, but there will be less delight coming from Adams in the future.

There’s seems to be some small, subtle thing that keeps Google from succeeding in China.  Unfortunately, I can’t identify it (the ability to do that is probably worth a lot of money).  But as further proof of its existence, a Chinese YouTube clone just received $25 million in funding.

The competition has a slightly goofy name – “Hunger Bytes” – and a strange logo – a globe with two pointy teeth.  But this YouTube-centric contest is for a good cause, and it’s backed by the United Nations World Food Program.

As a search competitor, Microsoft is pretty much a failure – both comScore and Hitwise saw a drop in its already-small market share during October.  The corporation is far from finished, however, and it seems that traffic to Microsoft’s many sites actually rose.

First impressions are important, and as people, we prove ourselves with handshakes and “hello”s.  In Google’s search results, websites are represented by a paragraph or so of information, and the company’s own Matt Cutts recently took a few minutes to discuss these snippets.

It’s hard to find anybody to agree with the logic, and certainly the only people that appear to be writing about it have done so to heap ridicule and scorn, but (apparently) the same person to bring us WhyFirefoxIsBlocked.com has now introduced WhyDiggIsBlocked.com.

Syrians can no longer use Facebook to keep in touch with people, or more importantly, groups that criticize the government.