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New features at Yahoo! Personals continue to pop up unannounced. Here we see the ability to select which information is displayed at the top of people’s profiles. I changed mine up immediately, the previously-displayed information wasn’t right for me, now I can quickly see the few datapoints that get me to keep reading.

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That’s more like it.

Nice job on this. I wonder who is going to replace Susan Mernit at Y! Personals, if anyone? My condolences to anyone who was repositioned out of Yahoo recently. My Plaxo rolodex keeps pinging me as ex-Yahooligans seek out new consulting gigs and full-time positions elsewhere.

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