This week we showed you some of our hard work from the past six months . Yesterday we held "Yahoo! SearchSpeak," an event for media at our headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., to share Yahoo!'s focus on and commitment to creating an amazing search experience. Our new Senior Vice President of Search Products, Shashi Seth, joined Prabhakar Raghavan, Senior Vice President of Yahoo! Labs and Yahoo!'s Search Strategy, Larry Cornett, Vice President of Search Consumer Products,

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Apple is holding a contest on iTunes called "Countdown to 10 Billion Song Downloads." The user who downloads the 10 billionth song from iTunes will receive a $10,000 gift card from Apple. " iTunes changed the way you buy music, making songs and albums available for download, day or night," Apple said. "Seven years later, we're about to celebrate our biggest milestone for music, yet - 10 billion songs downloaded. Buy a song, and if it's the 10 billionth download,

Today we're celebrating our sixth birthday, and this week there will be 400 million people on Facebook. Just one year ago we served less than half as many people, and thanks to you we've made great progress over the last year towards making the world more open and connected. Facebook began six years ago today as a product that my roommates and I built to help people around us connect easily, share information and understand one another better.

Today is Safer Internet Day in the European Union, a day that promotes safe and responsible use of the Internet and mobile technologies among young people. We asked Childnet International , a member of Facebook's Safety Advisory Board , and its CEO Will Gardner to share more about this year's theme and how the organization is working with young people on Internet safety. When young people discuss the future of the Internet and new technologies, a central theme is keeping safe.

As the Olympics get underway, fans have a lot of options to engage online. Many popular sites on the web are involved in a variety of ways. Google Google allows you to take a virtual tour of the Olympics in 3D . They recently released updates in Google Earth's 3D Buildings layer, which showcase Olympic venues (54 buildings). Models range from downtown event centers to ski lifts and spectator bleachers. The Official site for the Olympics uses the models itself.

When it comes to managing your credit card in adCenter, there are four basic processes you need to know- how to add, how to associate, how to remove, and how to bill your card now. Below is your step by step guide to keep your credit card information current and your ads serving. How to Add a New Credit Card Add a new credit card if your current card is getting ready to expire, or if your card is being declined. After adding the new card information,

Like everyone else on the social web, I just read Seth Godin's new book Linchpin . It's a big book, not so much in number of pages, but in number of ideas. One core theme is the idea of emotional labor " bringing more human feeling and connection to your work, some essential part of yourself that can't be automated or outsourced. It strikes me that this gets to one of the key distinctions between different models for doing business online.

When Google announced Google Buzz earlier this week, the company made it abundantly clear that it was interested in Buzz being as open as possible. Looking at the Google Buzz API page , you'll see that support for Activity Streams, AtomPub, OAuth, PubSubHubbub, Salmon and WebFinger are things that are "coming soon." What all of this means is that Google is working to make Buzz content something that can be used in as many services as possible,

Online video website Veoh has announced it will be shutting down and filing for bankruptcy. Veoh launched in 2005 and its backers included Shelter Capital, Spark Capital, Michael Eisner's Tornante Company, Goldman Sachs, Time Warner, Intel Capital, Adobe, Gordon Crawford, Firefly3 and Jonnathan Dolgen. Those backers supported Veoh with $70 million in investments. Dmitry Shapiro, CEO and founder of Veoh,