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| Zoom passengers seek new flights 06:07:46 am , 08-29-2008 Hundreds of travellers left stranded by the collapse of budget airline Zoom attempt to continue their journeys. |
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| Delphi liquidation looms large: report
(Reuters)
06:07:37 am , 08-29-2008 Reuters - Bankrupt U.S. auto parts maker Delphi Corp
may end up being liquidated, with some U.S. plants
being taken over by its former parent General Motors Corp
, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people involved in
the bankruptcy process. |
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| Exploding oxygen bottle behind Qantas mid-air blast: inquiry
(AFP)
06:07:23 am , 08-29-2008 AFP - An exploding oxygen bottle was to blame for a mid-air blast which last month blew a gaping hole in a Qantas jet travelling from Hong Kong to Australia, safety investigators said Friday. |
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| Thai protesters push police off premier's compound
(AP)
06:07:23 am , 08-29-2008 AP - Thai anti-government protesters occupying the grounds of the prime minister's office forced several hundred policemen off the compound early Friday and promised more action in their bid to oust the leader. |
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| Poulter remains in golf's Ryder Cup hunt
(AFP)
06:07:21 am , 08-29-2008 AFP - If Ian Poulter has a lock on a spot with Europe's Ryder Cup team, then somebody better tell Paul Casey. |
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| Probe reveals oxygen bottle burst on Qantas flight
(AP)
06:07:19 am , 08-29-2008 AP - An oxygen tank exploded and blew a car-sized hole in a Qantas jet last month, air safety officials said Friday, but investigators appear to be no closer to figuring out why. |
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| Headless corpses found in Mexico 06:07:02 am , 08-29-2008 Police in the Mexican state of Yucatan have found the bodies of 11 men, decapitated and piled on each other. |
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| College president steps down over beer photo 06:06:35 am , 08-29-2008 Read full story for latest details.
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| Yahoo! Mash Has Been Quashed 06:06:16 am , 08-29-2008
Nearly one year after the launch of Yahoo’s answer to Facebook, Yahoo Mash has decided to close it’s doors. The news comes to us from one of our readers, Mark Palmer who received a terse email from the service, giving the date they’ll end service:
Thank you for trying out our Mash Beta service. We hope you had fun with it.
Please note that we will shut down Mash on September 29, 2008. As a result, your current profile on Mash will no longer be available. We strongly recommend that you return to http://mash.yahoo.com and copy the content that you wish to save onto a separate document.
Matt Warburton
Yahoo! Community Manager
I can’t say I’m particularly surprised. The few times I ever played with the service, I didn’t see anything particularly enthralling about the service over and above what was already offered by the pre-existing social network offering from Yahoo 360, and judging from the traffic patterns, most of the rest of you felt the same way.
I took a look at the Quantcast numbers, which showed an embarrasing slope in usage over the year since it’s launch, ending with an estimated monthly pageview count for the service around 2,000. Not two million. Two thousand.
Clearly not the home-run they were looking for.
I took a poke around on the Yahoo 360 system, which was almost a spitting image of Mash, and they’ve made sure to alert their userbase that it, in fact, will be sticking around in the absence of the newer social network.
Other than that, it’s pretty hard to give the service a decent eulogy. It launched to a false start, was recieved with fairly ho-hum reviews, seemed to be a copy of not only offerings Yahoo already had but others’ social networks, failed to acheive any sort of momentum, was poorly marketed, and was used by virtually no one.
Rest in peace?
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