Fire Eagle, Yahoo’s new geolocation service, is fresh out of the company’s Brickhouse development team, and third parties are lining up to cut deals. Who can deny that location is going to become increasingly important for Web services? In the initial rush of coverage, MG Siegler correctly noted that Fire Eagle essentially serves as the intermediary between services offering that geolocation capability and those wishing to make use of it. (Fire Eagle’s not an original idea. There’s also Loopt, a cell phone-based service that allows people to track and communicate with friends, as well as Whrrl and Brightkite.)

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Britney Spears says she is a “cleaning fanatic”. The ‘Toxic’ singer - who has sons two-year-old Sean Preston and Jayden James, 23 months, with her ex-husband Kevin Federline - confessed she loves doing housework and particularly enjoys cleaning windows and making dinner.

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The world of tennis, as we know it, spun off its axis a bit here Thursday night in front of thousands of enthusiastic Chinese fans. This is the Beijing Olympics, not Wimbledon or another Grand Slam tournament. No ivy-covered walls here, no red clay or echoes of Jimmy Connors under the lights in the Big Apple. The stadium is a big, circular chunk of concrete. It has all the charm of a freeway ramp.

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Four commonly used moisturizers promoted skin cancers in mouse studies. Mice are not men. But the unexpected finding suggests that these — and perhaps other products — may not be as safe as they’re thought to be. The moisturizers tested in the study were Dermabase, Dermovan (a wholesale-only product discontinued in 2006), Eucerin Original Moisturizing Cream, and Vanicream.

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