The Social Software Weblog

Yahoo, eBay partner - May 25, 2006

Filed under: YahooA multi-year agreement has been made between Yahoo and eBay to bundle many of the two company's services together. Here's the Seattle PI in case you haven't seen the story yet. Watch the discussion unfold over the day at Techmeme. Update: Mick Weinstein of Seeking Alpha precedes his summary of blogosphere reactions with this noe. "Note that JP Morgan Securities had a report (.pdf) out just two days ago predicting such a eBay-Yahoo alliance as the most..
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/05/25/yahoo-ebay-partner/

FON to split private, public environs in routers - May 24, 2006

Filed under: wireless mediaFON, the experiment in shared wireless internet access that allows members to use each others' connections and nonmembers to pay for access, has announced a key software adaptation that responds to users' concerns about security. The company just announced on its blog that its next release will include two different environments using the same router, one public and one private. By using two separate SSIDs, or service set identifiers, FON appears to be...
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/05/24/fon-to-split-private-public-environs-in-ro...