Top Items:
David / A design and usability blog:
The Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance David — Google has reintroduced their Google Web Accelerator with a vengeance. It was evil enough the first time around, but this time it's downright scary. — In version 1., web masters at least had a fighting chance as the GWA identified …
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Google spam suite primer — Google provides a full suite of services for the entry-level blog spammer. There are plenty of legitimate uses for all of these Google services, but Google's market-leading position in search creates a spam ecosystem that inflates corporate revenues, index size, and user data.
Discussion:
Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com, RatcliffeBlog, Flashpoint, Geek News Central … and house of warwick
RELATED ITEM:
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Something Rotten in AdSense — Google AdSense is a system for web publishers of all sizes, from big newspapers to tiny bloggers. They sign up with Google to place a small box full of text ads on their site. You've probably seen it, but if you haven't, check out Michael's techInterview site for an example.
Tania Ralli / New York Times:
Brand Blogs Capture the Attention of Some Companies — Michael Marx loves Barq's root beer. He frequently wears a Barq's T-shirt. He brings Barq's root beer to parties. — So it should come as no surprise that Mr. Marx, 34, of Gilbert, Ariz., keeps a blog dedicated to Barq's.
Adrants:
BUDGET LAUNCHES BLOG-BASED, SIXTEEN CITY TREASURE HUNT — In a first, Car rental company Budget has launched a blog-based, four-week, 16-city treasure hunt, called UP YOUR BUDGET, which offers a total of $160,000 in prizes. To win, participants must find a sticker which has been placed …
RELATED ITEMS:
Christopher Null / Wired News:
No Longer Safe for Work: Blogs — Robert Mason (not his real name) would love to spend a few minutes during lunch catching up on blog posts from around the web, but his company doesn't allow it. The financial institution where Mason works as a vice president has security filters set …
Business Week:
"Working Late" Won't Work Anymore — New services can track you-or your loved ones-by cell phone — It sounded too Orwellian ever to succeed. In 2000, Korean cellular carrier SK Telecom introduced a service called "find friends" that lets others follow your every move, using a signal beamed from your handset.
Discussion:
Smart Mobs
Marguerite Reardon / ZDNet:
Cisco's new tool for emergency communications … Cisco Systems announced on Monday an Internet Protocol communications system designed to link radio networks used by police, fire, rescue and other public-safety departments. — Today, in most cities and towns, each department has its own radio communications network.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Revisionist curmudgeons — Predictably, the backlashers are trying to make their marks and get their linkjuice by arguing that this web/citizens/blog thing just ain't what it's being blown up to be. But so much of the antihype is even sillier than the hype.
RELATED ITEM:
Jonny Evans / Wired News:
Divvying Up the Download Payload — LONDON — Ever since the Beatles, British music has rocked the world. — But behind the scenes of Cool Britannia, British musicians and labels are fighting bitterly over money as sales of online music change the economics of the industry.
David Hornik / VentureBlog:
Built To Be Bought (Bubble 2.0) — Over the last couple of months I've noticed an increasing sense of unease in the venture community about the trend in Web 2.0 company creation and financing events. While no one is officially willing to peg it Bubble 2.0 for fear of missing the next great opportunity …
Discussion:
A design and usability blog, web2.wsj2.com, TECHNOSIGHT, house of warwick and Venture Chronicles
Financial Times:
US cable groups still wondering about wireless — Comcast and Time Warner, the big US cable operators, have got into the habit at quarterly results presentations of telling investors about the importance of offering their video, internet and phone customers a fourth service - wireless access.
Stephen H. Wildstrom / Business Week:
Why Worms Shun Apple's OSX — Successful assaults by viruses and other malware on the Mac operating system are rare as it has better security and attackers are less keen — Ilya van Sprundel writes: In this article about the Mac Mini (see BW, 2/14/05, "And For Steve Jobs's Next Trick …
geektechnique.org:
how-to turn a digital camera into an IR-camera — First of all, I know this has been done before (with webcams for example), but I thought it would be nice to give you an extensive insight view of how I transferred my old digital camera (which would probably fetch only $30 on ebay or such) into a infrared camera.
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
The End of the Affair — My addictions always run the same course. — One day a few weeks ago, I picked up Burnout: Revenge — the superb new car-racing and -smashing game — and within an hour I was hooked. I abandoned all work, blew my writing deadlines and ignored my wife.
Discussion:
collision detection
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Microsoft Media Center Vs Apple FrontRow — For past few days there is a big debate has exploded over on Apple Matters, about Media Center and Front Row. Thomas Hawk who is an unabashed Windows Media Center Fanboy takes Mac-faithful to task and writes, "Yes, they created a product …
