First off, what is going to happen to all of my song ratings? I have a pretty cool customized radio station now that I have given the thumbs up and thumbs down to so many artist and songs, will that just disappear with this merger (sell out!).

I have also been considering some network audio players, and some of them work with rhapsody and some work with yahoo music (one of the factors that has me leaning towards getting this wireless network audio player) – will that functionality cease to sexist with this transition?

Well in protest of this news I am listening to DI.fm today – which has way fewer commercials anyway.

On the plus side with yahoo today – there was an announcement about them buying FoxyTunes, a company that developed a toolbar plug-in application that enables users to control more than 30 desktop and Web-based music players. – But why get that? Just so you can brand it with real networks? Or maybe this was something separate, with the way yahoo has been handling music and music players it may of been best for them to leave foxy tunes alone. There is hope that miscrosoft will not acquire yahoo for many reasons, and for many of the same reasons I hope that foxytunes is not ruined by yahoo like yahoo music will be when it is taken over by real.

Just my humble opinion – an upset rant that may be edited later, updated, or proven wrong at some point. But I doubt it.

Came accross this great section in Yahoo Tech about cell phones that offers reviews, prices and comparisons of cellular phones and features an excellent how to section for first time cell users. Yahoo users can save any product they feature to their profile. And for those of you curious like me as to what people are looking at or searching for, Yahoo offers tools on the right sidebar to let you see what everyone else is viewing. Another interesting thing I saw was a tag cloud at the top of the page which I thought was a brilliant web design idea becasue it is very user friendly.

“Your invited to join Yahoo Gallery it allows developers to discover and share applications that use Yahoo technology this is just in Beta but you can get your own developers page and anyone familiar with Yahoo services or products should have no problem making all sorts of programs for gadgets and widgets. It also allows you the rate other peoples apps. And if you know of any other developers out there let them know would yea it is totally free”

A BIG thanks to Selena Jackson for the invite

ZD Net Mobile News is reporting that Yahoo is planning on bringing party planning to our mobile devices

But Mixd, launched Thursday, isn’t really social networking in the traditional sense. You aren’t creating a profile a la MySpace and striving to build a bigger and better-looking friends list. Rather, it’s like cattle herding for the partygoer sector: you use Yahoo’s service to organize a group of your friends for a “Mixer” (a party or night out), coordinating it all through text and picture messages.

Mixd is geared toward sociable young people who are already avid text messengers, said Scott Gatz of Yahoo’s Advanced Products Group. “The mobile phone is like a piece of their body,” he said. “It’s inseparable from them.”

1. Google Labs labs.google.com/

2.HP Labs hpl.hp.com/

3. ATT Labs att.com/attlabs/

4. Adobe Labs labs.adobe.com/

5. Opera Labs labs.opera.com

The rollout will begin with the new Nokia 6300, 5200 and 5300 XpressMusic phones, which will have the capacity to sync with Yahoo contacts, tasks and calendar items, in addition to Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger.

These services will soon be added to many of Nokia’s Series 40 phones as well, according to Nokia.

The announcement expands on an earlier partnership between the two companies. In January, they announced plans to make Yahoo Go Mobile, Yahoo’s mobile Web browser, available on Nokia phones for AT&T and Cingular Wireless customers.

Analysts have been predicting that e-mailing from regular cell phones will become prevalent as the technology and services required for mobile Internet becomes more affordable.

While Nokia remains the No. 1 manufacturer and brand worldwide, the Finland-based company has not gained much traction in the United States, according to analysts.