... I promise to store them correctly.

Would you enter your Gmail (Yahoo!, MSN, etc) password in facebook for it to import your contacts or for any other reason? If we take a look at the numerous web sites that ask for our passwords of other services it looks like most of us do. I'm convinced that this is something that should not be done. There are others who think the same.  When we begin to say that its OK to enter credentials in just about any login box you see, what we are doing is paving the road for more and more phishing attackers.

However things may be changing in the right direction. Yesterday when I created myself a Plaxo account and went to the sync settings here is what i saw

What you'd see just about everywhere.

and this:

There may be hope yet. Yahoo! is trying to make sure that if you're going to enter your yahoo credentials, its always going to be on a Yahoo! site! and nowhere else.

The IE7 marketing sites on Google and Yahoo have been quite interesting! Nothing to do with the browser itself, but about google copying the Yahoo's site design.

Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo correctly points out that Google had initially plagiarized the Yahoo site design! He had posted some screenshots with the post to show the resemblance. hmm.. wicked!

Matt Cutts of Google apologizes for the incident (not on behalf of Google of course!) and goes on to say "In my personal opinion, it sucks when someone else copies a page layout without attribution". His post doesn't end there. Matt goes on to show how bad things are with an example of how Yahoo has been coping Google AdWords ad layouts!