Sohaib Thiab – The Story of an Internet Entrepreneur

It seems that Yahoo! is continuing its trimming policy and closing more of its services, Yahoo! announced closing the Yahoo Publisher Network as of April 30.
Below is the email they sent out to their publishers:
Dear Publisher,
Yahoo! continuously evaluates and prioritizes our products and services, in alignment with business goals and our continued commitment to deliver the best consumer and advertiser experiences. After conducting an extensive review of the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta program, we have decided to close the program effective April 30, 2010. We expect to deliver final publisher payments for the month ending April 30, 2010 to publishers no later than May 31, 2010. All publishers eligible for 1099s for the 2010 tax year will have those mailed by January 31, 2011.
Because our content will no longer be delivered to your ad unit spaces after April 30, 2010, we recommend removing all YPN ad code from your pages by that date.
For the opportunity to continue earning revenue, we suggest using Chitika, a leading advertising network that syndicates Yahoo! Content Match and Sponsored Search ads. Chitika has set up a special process for YPNO beta publishers to participate in its platform. Click here for more information.
We thank you for your participation in the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta. If you have any questions regarding this announcement, please contact our Support Team at (866) 785-2636, Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PDT. Sincerely,

Your Partners at Yahoo!
This is not the 1st service that Yahoo! closes, one of the most recent services they closed was GeoCities, and their Briefcase Online Storage Service.
Yahoo! is recommending their exciting publishers to move to Chitika which has already setup a welcome page.
This is clearly big news! allot of YPN publishers will have to remove their ad code by no later than April 30 and they have to find another alternative, I remember when YPN 1st opened and the rush to getting accepted and making big bucks with them…
Another questions comes to my mind is Yahoo’s recent acquisition of Maktoob.com, will this policy of closing secondary or non-important services be implemented over there as well?

I received the preview of the new design that my partner is working on today, and boy was I impressed, the new theme is going to be an excellent move towards the revamp I talked about earlier, this theme is way fresher and I just love it. Check out the below low quality preview!

Of course the network home revamp isnt just a pretty design, lots of new updates are going in the design such as member profiles and a social networking system.

On another note, I currently have 87 followers on twitter, which isnt bad in my opinion considering for being there for 5 days, twitter is a great marketing tool so far with lots of potential however its filled with spam, which brings me Twitblock, you can learn more about their service on this Rev2 review,  basically it helps allot with clearing spam profiles in your twitter follower list. Hope it helps you get rid of the spam in your twitter account!

Here is a cool video that friend sent me that might help you answer the question

PS. Sorry for the lack of posts, I have a couple of posts in my drafts that I should be finished real soon.

Here Comes Another Bubble – The top video clips of the week are here

A friend mentioned this video were Micheal Arrington interviews 12 web2.0 CEO startups, the main question in these interviews is whether web2.0 is a buble similar to the web1.0 buble. This post introduces the new Web2.0 category on my blog!