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[2006-03-31] Funny Photos from Mix06
Albert Lai, yesterday, released a bunch of new features for his Bubbleshare photo service.
[2006-03-30] What Will Google Do for April Fools Day?
April Fools Day is just two days away, and the question on everyone's lips is (if by everyone, you myopically only mean me), what will Google do?
[2006-03-30] iPod In Google Maps… Or Not
This looks funnier than it is, what appears a lot like an iPod in Google Maps.
[2006-03-30] April Fools Starting Early at MSN?
Is April Fools starting a day early over on MSN? Check out this fun search for my name.
[2006-03-28] Video Podcast of Jack Black in Nacho Libre
Nacho Libre is a new film by Jack Black, coming to theatres June - but you can watch his video confessionals via his video podcast (requires iTunes) or an Internet exclusive trailer now.
[2006-03-28] Good Nighttime Media and Other Fun Discoveries
Indie music by the Los Shoegazers (that's Valerie Landau's son Camilio - I know Valerie through NextNow, a group of intellectuals who hang out with Douglas Englebart, among other smart people).
[2006-03-27] CNN Resets Its Home Page
Several changes on CNN's website embrace a look and feel that puts a lot of emphasis on above-the-fold navigation and presentation options.
[2006-03-27] New IE7 Feedback Site
The IE team has started up a feedback site for submitting and tracking bugs for Internet Explorer 7, inspired by Mozilla's Bugzilla.
[2006-03-24] Problems Sprout For Nature Over Wikipedia
The Encyclopedia Brittanica has expressed its extreme displeasure with the Nature science journal over its comparison of Britannica to Wikipedia.
[2006-03-24] Mapguide with Google Earth Integration
James Fee has reminded us about some nifty applications developed using Mapguide Open Source - thanks for the head-sup James!
[2006-03-24] RSS How-to Series
CT Biz Blogs is putting together a nice tutorial series on using RSS...
[2006-03-23] Bill Brantley Groks Haystack
Bill Brantley writes:
[2006-03-21] Gary Price Is The New Jeeves
I like the idea that Gary Price has replaced Jeeves as the go-to guy for information from Ask.com.
[2006-03-21] Living Virtually
I messed up the other day when I linked to SuperTour (I linked to the wrong page, this is the right link).
[2006-03-21] ZoneTag Can Geocode Photos
I had missed this earlier, but Yahoo recently rolled out a great new moblogging application called ZoneTag.
[2006-03-20] Family Feuds On The Internet
The eternal struggle between parents and offspring over keeping a bedroom clean moved online, where Dad embarrassed Daughter and Daughter took revenge on Dad.
[2006-03-20] Cancer Mosaic
A friend of mine started a very cool fundraising site benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
[2006-03-17] The Sun Also Rises On MySpace
News Corp's British tabloid The Sun will offer various online services like blogging and media sharing through a "MySun" portal powered by MySpace.
[2006-03-17] Now Google Says The FCC Doesn't Suck
Andrew McLaughlin, senior policy counsel with everyone's favorite search advertising company, claims he was horribly misquoted by a Light Reading reporter who gave lots of writers a great headline.
[2006-03-17] Wanna Chat With Googlebot?
Googlebot loves surfing the web. He follows from link to link, discovering new pages along the way and adding them to Google's index.
[2006-03-15] Google Idol
Yeah, I don't get this, but I'm sure some people probably think its the greatest thing since… that other thing.
[2006-03-15] AOL In2TV Begins Its Broadcast Day
Warner Bros and AOL officially opened up In2TV, and have a variety of classic programming available to their online viewers.
[2006-03-14] iTunes Goes Mad For March Basketball
Alumni and fans alike will be able to purchase next-day access to condensed men's college basketball broadcasts from iTunes for playback on the computer or a video iPod.
[2006-03-13] Kids Virtually Visit Open Heart Surgery
High school students from Ohio and Michigan watched an open heart surgery procedure as part of an interactive videoconference.
[2006-03-11] Excellent hack for K2 WordPress theme
One of the things I continue to find a bit tricky with WordPress and the customized K2 theme I have on this blog is tweaking the sidebar to include or exclude elements on certain pages.
[2006-03-10] MySpace Adds Film To Music
Long known as a site for music fans as well as its heavy Internet traffic and social networking, MySpace hopes to draw filmmakers as it has bands to its domain.
[2006-03-09] PersonMaps Google Mashup
Always the mashup fan on the look for cool new apps., check out PersonMaps.
[2006-03-08] CNBC has Origami
CNBC has video of the Origami. Well, one of them. Channel 9 will have almost an hour with Origami's architect, Otto Berkes.
[2006-03-08] No RSS? Feed43 lets you make your own
This is gonna be controversial, that's for sure. Your favorite site doesn't provide news feeds?
[2006-03-07] Seeing Through The MySpace Mirage
A controversial article featuring research by Jupiter Research claimed active membership at MySpace was far below the number of registered users for the site.
[2006-03-07] Find Your Way to Ask Maps
Ask wants you to take the "taste test" and compare their maps tool to Google's and Yahoo's.
[2006-03-06] Digg Gives Thumbs Up To Comments
An updated comment system for the Digg user-contributed news site offers several new features, including ratings for comments and a three-minute window to edit the comments one makes on a story.
[2006-03-06] Google Logo Causing Stock Hit
The Onion ran one of their faux "man on the street" pieces last Thursday, asking "Google recently suffered a 13% percent drop in stock price, the sharpest drop in the history of the company.
[2006-03-06] Fox Offers Blogs to Idol Fans
Fox has launched a program that give American Idol fans their own blogs on the Fox site.
[2006-03-02] Wunder Blog: A blog for Weather Junkies
For years now, the Weather Underground has been my first choice for on-line weather.