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[2006-01-30] Microsoft,Yahoo Among Best Employers
Microsoft and Yahoo scored a place on Fortune Magazines "100 Best Companies To Work For" list for 2006, but the company known for its free meals and volleyball games didn't make the group.
[2006-01-30] Flying Car Via Google Earth Won't Go Away!
The mystery of the flying car in Perth, Australia just won't go away.
[2006-01-29] A Quick Look at ESRI's ArcWeb Explorer Beta
From ESRI... ArcWeb Explorer is a Web-based map viewing application based on Macromedia Flash 8.
[2006-01-28] Mozart Would Flip Over SongTrellis
Dave Luebbert brought his Mac to the geek dinner we held on Thursday night (about 40 people showed up). Why did he do that? So he could compose a song right in front of me during the geek dinner.
[2006-01-26] Malkin Takes On Google With Images
Conservative columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin has launched an effort to collect various Photoshopped Google logos and other images that protest Google's acceptance of government censorship in China.
[2006-01-26] Giving Blogbeat a Try
Brian Benzinger's post on Blogbeat prompted me to give it a try. I've disabled MeasureMap for the time being.
[2006-01-25] Yahoo Search Execs Blast CFO Comments
One may feel sorry for Yahoo CFO Susan Decker, whose comments in an interview regarding Yahoo's place in the search world, ie second to Google, have generated a heated response in the Yahoo Search Blog. Maybe Decker's comments in her chat with Bloomberg were taken out of context, as some bloggers have suggested.
[2006-01-25] The End of Cyberspace
Alex Soojung-Kim and David Pescovitz's article in Wired on Cyberspace is Dead now has a blog:
[2006-01-24] Performancing Updates Blogging Tool
The Firefox extension Performancing for Firefox received an update to 1.1, adding several new features and squashing several bugs in version 1.0.1.
[2006-01-24] Spam Sorts Sundance Successes
Unspam Technologies has a way to determine which entrants into the Sundance Film Festival are destined for stardom or the trash bin; they filter film descriptions through a Bayesian spam filter.
[2006-01-23] Listen to Your Hard Drive and Weep
Weird noises from your hard drive and you're not sure what they mean?
[2006-01-22] Create and Modify Customized Google Maps
An interesting news item this week-end in the Locapoint DIY Map Service, a free online service to modify Google maps and easily place them on a blog or website.
[2006-01-22] Podcast Entertainment
Last week, Shel and I had a great conversation via Skype with Lee Hopkins.
[2006-01-20] Mr. Incredible May Save Mickey Mouse
As discussions and speculation begins about the possibility of the Walt Disney Company making a play for Pixar Animation Studios, it looks like the big winners will be Steve Jobs and Disney itself.
[2006-01-20] Washington Post Ends Blog Comments
Lots of mean people said hurtful things on the Washington Post blog, so the Post said, and in response the Post has turned off comments for the Post.Blog.
[2006-01-19] Who's Got the Biggest Ego?
Mirror, Mirror, on the Web, Who has got the biggest head?
[2006-01-18] Microsoft Max on Channel 9
I love this team: Microsoft Max.
[2006-01-18] A One Stop Shop for Tags
Three easy steps for generating blog tag codes...
[2006-01-17] Private Schools Versus Teen Bloggers
Some private schools have taken extreme steps to quell the use of blogs and social networking sites by their students; teens just want to express themselves.
[2006-01-17] Radio Firefox
Who knew there was a Radio Firefox?
[2006-01-17] Here’s Your Googol
Ever want to see what a Googol looks like?
[2006-01-17] Glypho Open Sources Novel Writing
Here's a new site I learned about via email (see, Steve learns). It's called Glypho.
[2006-01-17] MS Research releases Group Shot for photo groups
This is a fun one to play with.
[2006-01-17] podOmatic
podOmatic is a relatively new service that promises to make podcasting easier.
[2006-01-15] Google Earth Contest?
Wait till January 31 and see for yourself I guess.
[2006-01-14] IE Blogger Clears Tracks and Gathers Comments
The Internet Explorer blog continues to rock and roll.
[2006-01-14] Are You Evil or Not?
I joke with friends that two kids from Stanford stole Microsoft's evil and we want it back.
[2006-01-13] Google Reveals New Product Development Secret
Ok, so this post may not live up to the hype of the title, but admit it, you needed a Friday afternoon chuckle. :-)
[2006-01-13] TaylorMade Golf Launches Two Blogs
TaylorMade Golf, one of the leading equipment manufacturers, has quietly rolled out two blogs.
[2006-01-12] No Room For Copycats In MySpace
Some fans of the social networking site have built domains like MySpaceSupport.com in support of the popular service; MySpace's corporate masters at News Corp have rewarded those fans using MySpace in their domain names with the gift that keeps on giving: cease and desist letters.
[2006-01-12] Reporters Without Borders Want Your Help
Reporters Without Boaders is a public interest group established to protect the right of reporters, journalists, and bloggers to witness and report on events.
[2006-01-12] The Return Of Google GLAT
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter David A. Vise's book, "The Google Story," brings back an old Google favorite, the Google Labs Aptitude Test.
[2006-01-12] Blogging Outreach for the US Army
Well, when you are running a successful blogging initiative in a successful PR firm, companies and organizations are going to come to you for advice, and to lead blogging initiatives.
[2006-01-12] Coca-Cola's Reputation-Damaging Fake Blog
I don't have a problem, in principle, with character blogs and fake blogs.
[2006-01-12] A List of New PR Bloggers
Thanks to Constantin Basturea, we have links to a whole new batch of PR blogs.
[2006-01-11] Keep Cool With egoSurf
Via Steve Rubel, news of egoSurf, a tool that searches Google and other engines against your name and blog or website, and calculates your ego ranking.
[2006-01-11] Jim Boykin Blog on Fire
Not "really" on fire, but lots of great info on Jim Boykin's blog lately.
[2006-01-11] Blogofy Prototype Smart News Reader Debuts
Here's another RSS reader I saw in my server logs - it's called Blogofy.
[2006-01-11] Movie Debuts On Google Video
Well, there is one bright spot on Google Video this week: The film "Waterborne", which one an Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival, is available on Google video, streaming for free for the first week and available as a $3.99 purchase.
[2006-01-10] Digg Crowd Becomes A Mob
The 'wisdom of crowds' theory experienced a setback when the community of users for the popular Digg.com tech site focused their ire on an O'Reilly editor, accusing him of stealing source code.
[2006-01-10] What to Watch With Google Video
The Google Video store is finally open and the Google Blog lists some of its content providers.
[2006-01-10] NHL Close to an iTunes Distribution Deal
Here comes sports for your video iPod. Now we're talking.
[2006-01-10] AmazonBay
If you liked EPIC 2014, the Googlezon film, and have dreams of perfect liquidity, you will love Sean Park's AmazonBay 2015 -- a future film on Financial Services disrupted by the net.
[2006-01-10] GM Videocasts New Concept Car
"What do you think of it?" asks General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz in a post yesterday on the GM FastLane Blog.
[2006-01-09] Facebook Users Stick It To The Man
Campus police have been using Facebook to track down on-campus parties, but some students decided to turn Facebook against their tormentors with a prank that got big-time media coverage.
[2006-01-09] Measure Bloggers with EgoSurf
I'm not sure how scientifically accurate this is, but it sure is fun.
[2006-01-09] Yahoo! Acquires Webjay, Launches Yahoo! Music Blog
I know that Steve Rubel outed the Yahoo! Music Blog back when it was... in beta (yeah, that's it!).
[2006-01-06] Sun Microsystems Sees Blog Benefit
Rubel reports Jonathan Schwartz, President and COO of Sun Microsystems is a big fan of blogging.
[2006-01-06] Ziff-Davis Offers Nifty Blogger Relations Tool
Organizations should be looking for ways to get their content into the hands of bloggers who might want to write about them.
[2006-01-05] Ex-Googler Finds Lawyers Under The Tree
Ron Garret, a former Google staffer contributing to the Xooglers blog, hasn't been posting workplace anecdotes recently; it seems some legal types with big Gs on their Louis Vuitton attaches want a brief word with him.
[2006-01-04] Oppression For Blogs In China, Germany
Microsoft takes down a Chinese language blog on MSN Spaces, while a German blogger's appearance in Google rankings for a court's name earns him a cease-and-desist letter from the court.
[2006-01-04] Print Media Sobs Bitterly About Bloggers
A Tucson Weekly columnist put forth the half-joking suggestion that real journalists should take a year off and give bloggers nothing to borrow, as I'm doing here.
[2006-01-04] The Big Thing in 2006 to be Communication?
Don Dodge, former exec at AltaVista and Napster, tells us what the next big thing in 2006 will be.
[2006-01-04] Book Chapter By Wiki
Philipp Lenssen is in the midst of writing a book "55 Ways To Have Fun With Google".
[2006-01-03] Fortune Interactive Publishes Corporate Blog
We've decided to put our money where our collective mouths are and launch a Fortune Interactive corporate blog.
[2006-01-02] Yet Another 2006 Tech Predictions List
Many experienced, thoughtful authors in the tech world attempt to forecast what's likely to happen in the forthcoming year; we're glad they've done that so we can focus on getting a few cheap laughs at the expense of others.