Yahoo Pulse

Yahoo has release Yahoo Pulse
It is an improved version of Yahoo profiles
It has all features facebook has and potentially more powerfull, you can liverage existing contacts in yahoo messenger and yahoo mail.
It has integration with other social sites like facebook.
Check it out.
Find more information at http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3SHZRE5ZB5GBICWXIPB4DJOPUY/blog/articles/183315

Maintaining your contact list

With the proliferation of social networks social medias. Your contact list is distributed in different sites/applications like yahoo mail, gmail, facebook, orkut, linkedin etc. Many times you will have lot of duplicate entries in the contact list for the same person.
You can consolidate all your contacts using address.yahoo.com
In address.yahoo.com home page you can see two links.
a) Fix duplicate entries. This will list all potential duplicate entries in your yahoo address book, you will be able review, edit and merge duplicate entries.
b) Import contacts. This will help you to import contacts from other applications/sites to your yahoo address book.
These are long awaited very useful feature.
Wishlist: There should be a way to identify obsolete email addresses and delete these.

Podcasts for programmers

Recently I have been listening to podcasts for programmers. It is a good way of spending your time while commuting to and from office (especaially if you are working in bangalore). Following are two very good podcast sites
se-radio.net ( http://se-radio.net/ ) - lot of good podcasts on architecture, design, interview with great programmers etc. The main anchor Markus himself is a very good programmer.
stackoverflow podcasts ( http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/series/stackoverflow.html ) - discussion between Jeff atwood and Joel spolky on various topics on programming and software development in general.
this link list a long list of other podcasts on software development
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1644/what-good-technology-podcasts-are-out-there