Don't shoot the (Yahoo) Messenger!

Written by Jakob Jelling


By Jakob Jelling http://www.sitetube.com

Most anyone whose kids have become teenagers overrepparttar last few years has almost certainly at least heard of "IM". It's become a verb among not only teens, but many adult surfers too. As in "IM me later!". For anyone who doesn't know, IM, or Instant Messaging, is software that lets people communicate overrepparttar 118576 Internet, well, instantly. Or nearly so - with only slight delays most ofrepparttar 118577 time, instant messaging has always allowed users to type messages back and forth overrepparttar 118578 Internet. It's a lot like passing a note in class, with new parts of a conversation added on torepparttar 118579 end of previous parts. Yahoo Messenger was one ofrepparttar 118580 first to offer both IM software and a lane onrepparttar 118581 information superhighway for IM messages to travel.

But asrepparttar 118582 kids have grown, so has Yahoo Messenger. It's a lot more than a mere teen toy now. Yahoo, in an effort to attract and retain loyalty to it's brand, offers email, a personalized My Yahoo Portal, an address book, calendar, maps, bookmarks, a toolbar, and other services, many of them integrated to work together. But they seem to have paid special attention to Yahoo Messenger, especially recently. As more surfers have moved to high-speed internet connections, Yahoo has upgraded Yahoo Messenger to include Launchcast Radio, Yahoo Games, and of course, a considerable selection of customization options.

Paypal primer

Written by Jakob Jelling


By Jakob Jelling http://www.sitetube.com

To conduct business onrepparttar Internet, whether informal, one-time only transactions between two friends, or a full-fledged business selling products or services, payment arrangements have to be made. Before 1998, this often meant either checks sent through snail-mail, or very expensive, and often hard-to-obtain, merchant accounts for online credit card processing. In 1998, PayPal was introduced to fillrepparttar 118575 payment processing gap.

PayPal now has about 50 million members, but was originally introduced to provide a payment processing service for online auction buyers and sellers, in particular, eBay. Since then, PayPal has grown intorepparttar 118576 premier third-party payment processing service. In fact, PayPal was so successful that eBay boughtrepparttar 118577 company in 2002, replacing their own Billpoint service withrepparttar 118578 far superior PayPal service.

PayPal is free to join, although buyers are no longer required to join in order to pay for goods and services from seller members. Many people are still afraid to do business online, and won't provide their credit card information. Scams certainly abound in cyberspace, but PayPal is a solid, reputable company, and there is little to fear.

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