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AOL and Yahoo are considering merging, rumours say. Many have tried before to combine the two companies, to no avail. It would do Yahoo well to be led by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, as they have been having issues with leadership after Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was fired recently. I think this is a splendid idea, as it will solve Yahoo's problems with finding a CEO, while simultaneously having one of the best companies in the Internet business. This could turn out to be one of the best merges of all time, and we should track the progress of this developing merger.

Facebook is not the most secure site for your private information, and it's about to get a whole lot worse. At F8, the event in which Facebook makes announcements about upcoming improvements to the site, it was announced that the company wants to "extend the site". This means integrating this social network into just about everything you do online, which was once done by AOL, and we can see how popular that service is today.

Pidgin is a open source messaging program that allows your to use many messenger services at once just with this one program. The program is free and all your have to do it download it. it supports 17 networks with favourites such as AOL MSN and many more.  Other chat clients such as skype and facebook can be used if you have the plugin.