MytickerTickers have been around for while - I remember during Push 1.0 everyone was downloading a stock or news ticker app for their desktop. Then everyone uninstalled it - it crashed the PC or made it unbearably slow, or was simply irritating and a waste of screen real estate.

Well, every good idea deserves another chance, and this time Yahoo's on the case with a beta of a new kind of ticker, one that rolls not just stock info, but just about anything in RSS - so you can monitor, say, Technorati tags or Yahoo News alerts. Oh, and it has a search box, natch. As usual, it's PC only, IE only. Sigh. More on the Yahoo Search Blog.