Yahoo has announced that the company has acquired Citizen Sports, which mostly deals with fantasy games and offers a variety of sports products as well, including apps for the iPhone and Google Android as well.

Citizen Sports has raised $10 million so far, and the acquisition price is rumored to be in the $30 million range. Yahoo will add it to its Yahoo Sports division.

New social gaming startup MetroGames has announced that they’ve raised $5 million in Series A funding from Playdom, one of the larger social game developers.

While it’s a new startup, MetroGames doesn’t seem new to the social gaming landscape: the company has over 30 games available on Facebook and

Tracking and estimating corrects web statistics isn’t particularly easy, there are plenty of trackers — Compete, Alexa, Hitwise — each with their own systems and their own rankings. Google.com has long been known as the most visited site in the US, but now, according to Hitwise, it’s been pushed to second place, with Facebook now at the top spot. Yahoo Mail is third and Yahoo is fourth.

Yahoo’s popular Contacts service has added Facebook connect as a standard feature now, and Facebook connect will almost take over the whole process now, with easy import of friends and their details from Facebook.

Last month, Yahoo added Twitter support as well, and we’ll see how much else they’re going to integrate in their systems.

The European Commission and the Department of Justice have finally cleared the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, where they stuck a search deal last year, which would bring Microsoft search to Yahoo pages.

Two years ago, Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo for $45 billion, but the deal never went through, and subsequent negotiations fell through as well.

It is official! Facebook has now surpassed Yahoo and is now the second most-visited website in the United States. Number one of course still belongs to Google but if the trend continues, do not be surprised if Facebook suddenly overtakes Google too.

Facebook attracted nearly 134 million unique visitors in January alone. Yahoo’s traffic declined in January to 132 million unique visitors. Google had over 147 million unique visitors in January.

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I don’t know if you’ve ever been here, but Yahoo Answers represents the strangest concept I’ve seen lately–try the human powered search engine.  How it works is, essentially, you pose a question to the Yahoo Answers community and wait a few days.  Come back and check it, and it’s entirely possible that people have answered your questions.  Some answers are excellent, well-reasoned and clearly well thought out, while others are utter garbage.

But where this comes in for you is that, if you become one of those people, and one of those excellent, well-reasoned, and well thought out responses, you get to establish yourself, if only for a short while, as someone who knows what they’re talking about.  And if you include a link back to your blog, you can continue to show the Yahoo Answers folks that you really know your stuff.

And convincing a community the size of Yahoo Answers that you are indeed an expert in your field of choice can’t help but light a fire under your readership counts.

You are unlikely to be the only blog in your particular niche, unless you have managed to corner such a narrow market that no one else writes in the space.  So assuming you have competitor blogs in your space wouldn’t it be nice to know who links to them ?

Why, you might ask would you want to know who was linking to your competitors blog? It’s important because if they are getting valuable inbound links that will positively impact their google page rank and of course drive traffic to them.

Once you know where their inbound links are coming from you can start to work on getting the same sites to link to you. So how do you get that information?

Use Yahoo as your search tool and the little known “linkdomain” command to reveal this information. It is used in the following format:

linkdomain:website address

For example if I want to see all the sites linking to this one I would type linkdomain:slyvisions.com

The drawback to that is it will show all referring links, including internal ones, to remove the internal links we simply add -slyvisions.com at the end, so we have linkdomain:slyvisions.com -slyvisions.com

How will you get more traffic from sites linking to your competitors?