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Yahoo filed a three year financial plan that's got a pretty rosy outlook. Their presentation looks like it's one big signal to Microsoft about their real worth.

Yahoo buzz is stirring up traffic on the web, and it isn't even out of beta yet. Can the buzz outdigg Digg?

Over at Facebook, they're adding a light chat application and some new privacy controls. It's all part of Mark Zuckerberg's plan.

Chatting online may not be a good idea if you have an internet addiction. A doctor wants to have compulsive internet use classified as a mental disorder. They're already dealing with this kind of addiction in South Korea.

Avast Mateys! Japan has beaten France and the U.K. to become the first country to enforce a ban on people who use the internet for file-sharing.

The Chinese government has blocked the whole country off from CNN and YouTube. They don't want their citizens to see coverage of the Tibetan protest against Chinese rule. Meanwhile, China has become the world's largest online market.

Flickr may be incorporating video uploading capabilities into their site. They want to make sure they can do it in a way that is acceptable to the Flickr community of users.