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Yahoo! Mash was a social network service launched by Yahoo! during the early part of September 2007, to compete with other social networking sites by offering "mashups" of existing web services on a single-user interface. On August 28, 2008, Yahoo! announced via email to its subscribing members that Mash would be shut down on September 28.^[1]

Yahoo! Mash had the unusual feature of allowing a user to edit other users' pages, except in cases where the other users have switched the feature off.

It is thought that the Yahoo! Mash social network was created after plans for a merger of Yahoo! and Facebook failed. ^[2]

Modules[link]

Yahoo! Mash pages were composed of modules that could be added by their users or their contacts.

One module that could be added to a page (or a friend's page) was able to show photographs from Yahoo!'s photograph-sharing web site Flickr.

As with other social networks, pages that were not in a user's control could contain a "Common Friends" module that showed any mutual friends. Users were also able to communicate using a private messaging system.

See also[link]

• Microsoft Popfly
• Mozilla Ubiquity
• Yahoo pipes

References[link]

1. ^ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10029135-36.html
2. ^ DailyTech - Yahoo Begins Testing New Social Networking Service

External links[link]

• Official Yahoo! Mash Blog
• Yahoo Invites us into Mash, Its New Social Network

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Allan Arbus (born February 15, 1918) is an American actor notable for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the television series M*A*S*H.

Early life[link]

Arbus was born in New York City of Jewish background,^[1] the son of stockbroker Harry Arbus and his wife Rose (née Goldberg).^[2] He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he first developed an interest in acting while appearing in a student play.^[3]

Arbus was also a music lover. Prior to becoming an actor, he was reportedly so taken by Benny Goodman's recordings that he took up playing the clarinet.^[3]

Photography career with Diane Arbus[link]

During the 1940s, Arbus became a photographer for the United States Army. After completing his military service, he and his first wife, photographer Diane Arbus (née Nemerov, whom he had married in 1941) started a photographic advertising business in Manhattan in 1946. Arbus was primarily known for advertising photography that appeared in Glamour, Seventeen, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and other magazines, as well as the weekly newspaper advertising photography for Russek's, a Fifth Avenue department store owned by Diane's father.^[4] Edward Steichen's noted photo exhibition The Family of Man includes a photograph credited to the couple.^[5] The Arbus' professional partnership ended in 1956, when Diane quit the business; the couple formally separated three years later. Allan Arbus continued on for a number of years as a solo photographer, but was out of the business by the time the couple divorced in 1969.

Diane and Allan Arbus' studio/living quarters were at one time at 319 East 72nd Street in New York City. Their neighbor and friend was Robert Brown, an actor from the TV show Here Come the Brides.

Acting career[link]

After the breakup of his first marriage and the dissolution of his business, Arbus decided to leave photography behind and embark on a new career, acting. His new career took off after he landed the lead role in Robert Downey Sr.'s cult film Greaser's Palace in 1972, in which his character kills the character played by Robert Downey, Jr. (who would go on to star as Diane Arbus' muse in Fur, a fictional account of the end of the Arbuses' marriage). Arbus also starred opposite Bette Davis in Scream, Pretty Peggy in 1973, and was featured as Gregory LaCava in W.C. Fields and Me in 1976. These led to his continuing role as Maj. Sidney Freedman on M*A*S*H, although in an early episode, titled "Radar's Report" (1973) he was called "Milton Freedman".

Arbus' work on M*A*S*H helped him to take on a career as a character actor, appearing in more than 70 TV shows and movies.^[6] Among his film roles are a brief appearance in the 1973 film Cinderella Liberty as a drunken sailor; another 1973 film, Coffy (starring Pam Grier), features Arbus as a drug-dealer with strange sexual needs; in the 1978 movie Damien: Omen II, he plays Pasarian, one of Damien's many victims in The Omen trilogy.

Arbus is far better known for his television work, which includes over 45 titles and works as recent as Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2000.^[6] Among Arbus' non-M*A*S*H TV work are guest and recurring roles in such television series as Law & Order, L.A. Law, Matlock, Starsky and Hutch, and Judging Amy.

Personal life[link]

Allan and Diane Arbus had two children, photographer Amy Arbus and writer and art director Doon Arbus. The couple separated in 1959 and divorced in 1969, two years prior to Diane Arbus' suicide in 1971.

Arbus took Irish-American actress Mariclare Costello as his second wife in 1977. The couple have one daughter, Arin Arbus.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Allan Arbus at the Internet Movie Database
• Allan Arbus at AllRovi