1-800-Google

Google finally launched the Google Voice Local Search yesterday!

In the US, 411 is the phone number for local directory assistance, but it's pretty expensive (more than $1). 1-800-FREE-411 is a free service that uses speech recognition to process your request and ads to monetize it.

Read more here.

Show a snapshot of your links to your readers...

Do you want your users to know what content they are going to open by showing a snapshot of it on the mouse over upon links?

Well, Snap is the solution... Snap provides a great feature called Snap Preview Anywhere! which provides high quality link previews for site owners to add an informative and sticky experience for their users. (You can observe the links in this post or on this page! you can actually see a preview of the link if you move your mouse over the small icon next to the link!)

This will definitely keep your users happy by giving them the power to click intelligently and users can browse URLs at a glance, and stay on your site!

Snap Preview Anywhere comes with a simple-to-understand information guide on how to install it on different types of blogs.

Yahoo! decides to go open yet again...

Yahoo! has done it again, some months ago they showed interest towards Open development by giving out the code for their AJAX Libraries, now they take a call to give out the source of one of their legendary and killer service, Yahoo! Mail.

This was announced by Yahoo! officials along with Chad Dickerson, head of the company's software developer relations program, on September 30th 2006.

Lets hope that other Services like GMail, Rediff and Spymac open up too for there are lots of developers in the community who can make all these services better.

Read the full article here.