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title: "links for 2008-02-12"
canonical: https://www.hatch.org/2008/02/12/links-for-2008-02-12/
author: "Steve Hatch"
date: 2008-02-12
categories: ["Links"]
---

# links for 2008-02-12

- [Not So Crazy: Yahoo May Partner With AOL To Escape Microsoft](http://searchengineland.com/080211-063526.php): “Don’t forget that Google owns 5 percent of AOL and … wants to stop the Yahoo-Microsoft tie-up, might be able to sweeten the idea of Yahoo getting AOL by reducing its rights or potential payout as part of that agreement.” *(tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Google, Business, merger, Acquisitions, Search, Advertising, applications)*
- [Sniff browser history for improved user experience](http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/02/browser-history-sniff.html): “In this post I will teach you how to mine the rich treasure trove of personalization data sitting inside your visitor’s browser history for deep personalization experiences.” *(tags: UX, usability, Browser, CSS, JavaScript, development, socialnetworking, webdesign, webdev, recommendations)*
- [FuseOverAmazon – s3fs – Google Code](http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/wiki/FuseOverAmazon): “s3fs is a fuse filesystem that allows you to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a local filesystem.” *(tags: Amazon, backup, s3, storage)*
- [Podcasting News » Internet Advertising Growing Like Mad](http://www.podcastingnews.com/2008/02/11/internet-advertising-growing-mad/): “U.S. Internet advertising is growing like mad – up by 25% in 2007 to over 25 billion dollars. And the money’s not all going to Google.” *(tags: Advertising, media, Business, internet)*
- [Returnil – Simple, Smart and Strong Approach to PC Safety](http://www.returnilvirtualsystem.com/index_files/rvspersonal.htm): Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition is a powerful virtualization technology that completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the Syste *(tags: Windows, XP, Freeware, software, utilities, virtualization)*