Is Aabaco Small Business ready for prime time? Just got the transfer notice that Yahoo! Small Business has cut over to the new entity. Took some doing to get my account up and running, but so far seems to be pretty similar to Yahoo!  No means for contacting a live human if you are having problems getting your account up and functioning, but probably not much new there.

Will be interested to see how this plays out.

Thanks for nothing, LinkedIn...

Just got a little email from LinkedIn which made me feel special. Looks like a lot of risk for very little reward.

Dear Kurt Taylor,   We recently became aware that some LinkedIn passwords were compromised and posted on a hacker website. We immediately launched an investigation and we have reason to believe that your password was included in the post.   To the best of our knowledge, no email logins associated with the passwords have been published, nor have we received any verified reports of unauthorized access to any member’s account as a result of this event. While a small subset of the passwords was decoded and published, we do not believe yours was among them.   The security of your account is very important to us at LinkedIn. As a precaution, we disabled your password, and advise you to take the following steps to reset it. If you reset your password in the last two days, there is no need for further action.   1. Type www.linkedin.com/settings directly into your browser 2. Type in your email address and press Sign In, no password necessary 3. Follow the on-screen directions to reset your password   Note: Do not reuse your old password when creating your new password. If you have been using your old LinkedIn password on other sites, we recommend that you change those passwords too. We appreciate your immediate attention to resetting your password and apologize for the inconvenience.   Thank you, The LinkedIn Team

Mr. Rogers gets down with some help from Autotune!

This clip of Mr. Rogers gets the ubiquitous Autotune treatment courtesy of melodysheep...

Zynga losing more value, but not only in stock price...

The Zynga CTO has jumped ship to Game Closure...on the same day that about 325 million shares of employee owned Zynga stock gets released from the IPO lockup (as extended). How long can Zynga sustain a pps in excess of $5?

Noise cancellation for restaurants

This article and a similar Gizmodo piece describes how the folks at Meyer Sound in Berkeley have created a nifty system that can control the noise level at a restaurant. While it is not cheap, it would seem to be a must have for a lot of restaurants where chief among patrons complaints is terrible acoustics making it difficult to converse. The modern trend towards high, unfinished ceilings, exposed concrete surfaces and the general industrial chic look creates lots of reflective surfaces which exacerbate unwanted reverberation.

Beautiful!

This collection of autos is worth a look.

NYT blog coverage of FB IPO

This live blog from DealBook at the NYT is interesting.  An amazing amount of ink spilled on this event. Not to mention stock trades.

FB opens quietly...

The most anticipated IPO in 10 years is trading at the opening price of $38 - with 566 million shares changing hands. FB is public. Now what? Did the all night hackathon generate any revenue, or just a hack?

Google's I/O conference sells out faster than Springsteen...

Google's developer conference apparently sold out in 20 minutes. Last year it took an entire hour. Guess it is just hotter this year. But don't worry, if you missed out you can still get a ticket here.

A White, Fat iPhone...Oh No!

You might not have noticed, but apparently the new white iPhone 4 is .2 mm thicker than the black version. No one ever said white was slimming...