My friend Jenn often complains about her perfect, blonde hair. It’s either “too flat” (’70s, sleekly gorgeous) or “too poufy” (tousled, Victoria’s Secret model-ish), or her highlights are “too obvious” (like Sienna Miller’s).

When I received a frantic voice mail (”What do I do? They discontinued my favorite wave spray and it’s the only thing that makes my hair not-flat-but-not-poufy!”), I almost ignored it. But I figured Jenn would be the ultimate critical-yet-fair test subject for the for-blondes-only spray wax that I—unquestionably a brunette—was never going to try.

A week later, I got another voice mail: “Oh my God—I love it! My hair looks just right. It’s piecey, but it’s under control, and it doesn’t feel like there’s anything in it.”

I’m happy for her; really, I am.

–Dawn Spinner, associate beauty editor

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Yahoo’s latest project is Shine, an online magazine aimed at women in the 25-54 demographics. The site integrates some of Yahoo’s standard social networking features, but it doesn’t go too deep: it’s just your standard collection of articles in a nice, clean, magazine format.

There’s always room for a project like this, especially if it’s executed well and if you already have 40 million women visiting the site each month. Anyway you look at it, one can’t deny that Yahoo is trying hard to increase its value ever since Microsoft’s unsolicited takeover bid. Yahoo Buzz, Yahoo Live, OneConnect, search video ads and now Shine are only a portion of new services, features and upgrades we’ve seen from Yahoo lately. Whether or not will all this make Microsoft add a couple of bucks to that bid remains to be seen.

Chinese authorities have chosen to cease the blanket ban on English-language segment of Wikipedia, and will instead refine their method of “editorial discretion” to put the kibosh on specific elements within the Web-based encyclopedia. Two of topics that China’s is maintaining a no-no policy on are Tibet and Tiananmen Square, Reuters reports.

Despite the lifting of sanctions on the English-language Wikipedia, however, which was confirmed by Web users in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai this weekend, Chinese authorities continue to wholly restrict access to the Chinese-language version.

This partial removable of locks precedes the allowance of full uninhibited access to the Web promised by the Chinese government to the IOC (International Olympic Committee), which recently met with organizers in Beijing and made clear that the Internet “must be open for the duration of the 2008 (Olympic games).” How China will manage to convenience international attendees of the the events to be held this summer as well as ensure that it’s controls on the larger country as a whole are not subverted to any large degree is something that will surely be a subject of contention, especially as a global audience descends on the capital of Beijing in several months’ time.

Update: Facebook has confirmed that it will be conducting a slow, gradual rollout of Facebook Chat, and tells users to expect “fairly soon to notice our Chat bar at the bottom of your browser.”

According to Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook, the widely anticipated Facebook chat function may be released as early as this week. Maybe “in the next day or so,” even.

The new instant messenger application will allow you to chat with your friends wherever you decide to go on Facebook; it will be nested at the bottom of your browser, ready to access at any time. Like the GTalk sidebar in GMail, you won’t need to install anything to get it working, and you can also “pop-out” a chat window for any conversation you’re having, allowing you to do other things within Facebook in the browser window while carrying on your conversation unperturbed. You will also be able to receive notifications from your mini-feed and applications if you choose to, but that is only an option, so you don’t have to be swamped in application invitations if you don’t wish for them.

Alas, soon we will have yet another instant messenger. Do we need one more? Between GTalk, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Jabber, Skype, MySpace and on, don’t we already have enough?

Here’s something to chew on this weekend. There’s word passing around blog land about the discovery of a YouTube plugin for Safari Mobile, the Web browser found a selection of Apple’s mobile devices. The find is apparently burrowed inside the iPhone 2.0 firmware. The Boy Genius Report is positing the idea that this revelation may mean “some sort of ‘Flash’ support” down the line.

Now, I won’t dispute the option that Flash may find itself installed on the iPhone somewhere down the line. I imagine that will happen. It almost seems inevitable. But looking at this new memo, I cannot help but think the plugin is directly attributable to the iPhone’s already-existent YouTube application. It may eventually be revealed that Apple is developing its mobile Safari browser to operate with YouTube’s main page without need for the standalone application currently included in the iPhone’s software catalogue.

It is already known that Google has been busy offering video clips encoded with H.264, and that Apple presently allows Safari Mobile users to view Quicktime-compatible videos without completely exiting the browser. So it seems only logical to assume that Apple is working with Google to deliver an iPhone-friendly YouTube experience, sans any intervention by the local YouTube application on the device. Developing both the browser and website to such a degree would then not necessitate the need for Apple to provide crucial core access to Adobe to establish a full-fledged Flash system on the device.