Paypal provides a good method of paying for online shopping or conducting any online money transaction. But instead of going to the Paypal site everytime to start a transaction, how about using email, IM, a web browser, a social networking site or a blog? Below are the ten best hand-picked tools and plugins to help you out. Skype Send Money Skype Send Money is a Skype tool through which you can send Paypal money to your Skype contacts. Next time you and your friends or family are on Skype, surprise them by sending them some money though Paypal right there on Skype. To send money through Skype, right-click the contact’s name. This will open the Paypal wizard, which will guide you though the rest of the process. Skype will also alert you whenever you receive any money from your Skype friends though an alert message in your system tray. Paypal Mobile Paypal Mobile allows you to check your balance, send and receive Paypal money, contact Paypal support, and cancel a pending payment by sending a SMS message from your mobile phone. You can also use the Paypal Mobile service to shop from ebay’s mobile site. One interesting benefit of this tool is that you can use it to check your account balance before using your Paypal debit card at an ATM, or maybe even a restaurant. Saves you embarrassment on a date! Payment Request Wizard for Outlook and Outlook Express Payment Request Wizard for Outlook and Outlook Express is a plugin for these email clients that allows you to add a Paypal ‘Pay Now’ button inside the content of an email that you send out to your contacts. Your email recipients can click that button and finish the transaction on the Paypal site. To use this, click the Payment Request Wizard button on your Outlook/ Outlook Express toolbar. This will open the wizard where you can choose from a list of ‘Pay Now’ buttons. Paypal Application for Facebook Paypal application for Facebook allows you to request money from up to 20 of your Facebook friends in one go. You can also use the application to build a customizable badge that you can display on your Facebook profile and request your friends for a donation to a cause, for instance. This might work well if you have a large number of friends. Paypal Browser Toolbars Paypal Browser Toolbars are addons for Internet Explorer and Firefox that add a small Paypal button on your browser. You can click this button to launch a wizard Follow

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Apr 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced today that it will begin a limited test of Google Inc.’s AdSense for Search service, which will deliver relevant Google ads alongside Yahoo!’s own search results. The test will apply only to traffic from yahoo.com in the U.S. and will not include Yahoo!’s extended network of affiliate or premium publisher partners. The test is expected to last up to two weeks and will be limited to no more than 3% of Yahoo! search queries. As previously announced, Yahoo!’s board of directors is exploring strategic alternatives to maximize stockholder value, including exploration of potential commercial business arrangements. The Company noted that the testing does not necessarily mean that Yahoo! will join the AdSense for Search program or that any further commercial relationship with Google will result. The Company further stated that it would not comment on the nature or timing of any potential relationship. Source: http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=303999 Follow