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MySpace has been renovating their site over the past 6 months and you'll begin seeing the rollout today. There's new navigation tools, profile editor and search capability - as well as some changes to the MySpace TV player. Look for a brand new streamlined homepage on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Facebook has tied MySpace with 115MM monthly users worldwide. MySpace is still twice as popular here in the U.S. though, and right now, that's where the ad revenues are. U.K. and European users aren't worth as much...

Tomorrow is download day! Mozilla wants to make Firefox 3 the most downloaded piece of first-day software - and put it in the Guinness Book of World Records. Right now the current record holder is... okay, well there isn't one. You can pledge to download it at their website. Firefox 3 is more than parties and world records - tech bloggers are saying that it's better than IE and Safari. For now.

It's over. Really? Yes. Microsoft wanted to buy Yahoo's search assets for a billion dollars, but that's not going to happen now...

...because Yahoo cut a deal with Google. Google will now sell and display ads on Yahoo searches which could bring Yahoo 800 million dollars additional revenue. Yahoo can walk away from the deal but they have to pay a 250 million dollar termination fee. Microsoft is crying monopoly, and the NY Times is calling for the head of Jerry Yang.

Poor Pluto. Once our 9th planet, then demoted two years ago to a "dwarf planet." Now it's being called a "plutoid" too. But many astronomers take issue with all of these classifications. Things are going to be HEATED at the International Astronomical Union's general assembly in 2009.