Yahoo Glee Over Bartz is Over?

1 Billion from virtual goods

1 billion of revenues for virtual goods in 2009 and more than double than last year. Who would have thought? But then who would have thought, looking back, that kids would make their parents pay to collect sticky cards to put in albums?
I still haven't bought a farm on farmville but given the fact that I spend about 5 inutes on it everyday (just to see what it is like of course), and my time being valuable, paying 10$ to get a brand new barn does seem cheap indeed :-)
More details at Venture Beat

Google Wave is out

Supposed to be the next killer app replacing e-mail (yes e-mails are already 20 years old!!!), a blend between instant messaging, google doc, twitter and all the rest of the user-unfriendly project management tools, Google Wave is pre-released and invites are sold on e-bay despite Google's opposition.

* Read at Mediapost and take a first preview look at Lifehacker