Has Google just increased the value of every property in SF? Om Malik has some very interesting news: breaking…. Google is making a bid to build a San Francisco-wide free wifi network , according to company officials. The company today filed documents...

Nick Bradbury says probably the most sensible thing I've heard all week. "Clarify the OPML spec, and we can skip another prolonged format battle."

I pointed to some Virtual Earth hacks recently. John Musser highlights some more I haven't seen. Update: CNet has published a review of MSN Virtual Earth (via Chandu Thota of the MapPoint team) Chandu also points out a very cool mash-up idea...

VC Adventure: Why Microsoft needs RSS . (via Nick Bradbury ) "Enter the Internet age and people have discovered the power of unstructured data. Google built an entire service around it in the form of Gmail (lots of storage is great, but their...

DMNews : "Senior analyst Charlene Li raised an interesting issue yesterday at Forrester Research's Consumer Forum 2005: What do blogs, RSS and search engines have in common? Li's answer : "They require marketers to give up a degree of control...

James Governor, analyst at Redmonk discusses the topic of intra-blogware triggered by news that Lotus has lost to a blogware outfit in a blogging platform pitch. Correctly in my view, he advises Microsoft and others to take note: "One other...

Inside Microsoft: Microsoft Asks Hackers For Help With IE7 "IT World reports that Microsoft showed off IE7 Beta 2 at a hacker conference in Malaysia, and says they got some great feedback on it."

Came across this comprehensive personal blog discaimer by peterskim.org . Also listed on that disclaimer are other disclaimers worth musing: "Thanks for taking the time to read this blog disclaimer. These are mostly my ideas but also inspired...

(Update: 2 Oct 2005: Steve just pointed out the Costco offer is now closed.) Happy days. Just ordered my Xbox 360 (a belated birthday present) at Costco . :-) Bundle includes: Xbox 360 Game Console Wireless Controller...

Groovy Mother points to a Wikipedia list of British English words not used in American English . Since moving to Redmond, I've had to learn some of these the hard way. Recent examples of words I've used in conversation and got back a blank stare...

For the last couple of weeks I've been using memeorendum , encouraged by a number of recommendations and mentions I've seen posted (as well as referrers to the blog). I could see the memerendum's potential, a bit, but it wasn't until tonight that...

The Web 2.0 . meme seems to have close to hit tipping point today . Everywhere I look, its either Web 2.0 this , or Web 2.0 not that . Much to the dismay of some, no doubt. I realise, going through my RSS reader today that I've surrounded myself...

It really is all about the semantics today ... This time, Jonathan Korman gets frothed up (ok, he doesn't really get frothed, just a little bit foamy though - its a good article) about the definitions and differences of Interaction Design (IxD...where...

I have a feeling I'm going disappear up my own singularity on this one. oh well.... Some frothing going on . Dare : "The meme map is visual indication that "Web 2.0" has joined "SOA" as a buzzword that is too ill-defined to have a serious...

"Web2.0到底是什么，它与Web1.0之间存在哪些区别，什么样的网站可以称之为Web2.0？这些问题似乎现在还没有一个大家比较公认的答案。del.icio.us上的 Web2.0标签 中也可以看到很多各式各样的网站，到底Web2.0为什么是Web2.0，它的特性是什么，收集整理了一些人的观点，作为自己学习的资料。 文章较长，就不在首页放全文了。" More here . (Btw, I posted this from 34,00 feet on flight...

eMarketer reports that China internet users has reached the 100 million mark : "In its "16th Statistical Survey Report on Internet Development in China," the agency put the total number of Internet users at 103 million as of July 2005. China is...

Silicon.com reports on the estimated number of wi-fi spots globally by end of 2005 . "The number of Wi-Fi hot spots looks set to break the six-figure barrier by the end of the year, according to analysts. A new report from research firm Informa...

Jensen Harris has posted his first post in a series of, er, posts relating to the new Office UI . "...the roots of the early Microsoft Office programs were rooted in the Mac and of course, the user interface reflected that. As the Mac's first...

Frankie Fresh points to DJ Ballmer Fresh . (Er, when they said 'web mash-ups' , I don't think this is what they meant...)

Philip Richardson, you asked for it .

I like this new simple matrix / interface into the Web 2.0 APIs directory John Mussey of ProgrammableWeb has put together. (I blogged the directory couple of weeks back ). One thought: this format works well if you have two axes (two APIs recombined...

Press release at PR Newswire announces MSN's new paid-search service, MSN adCenter: "NEW YORK, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of the MSN(R) Information Services & Merchant Platform division, opened...

Nicholas Carr shares his most recent thoughts regarding his 'Does IT Matter?' essay and book. Carr's answer to his own question has for sometime been an emphatic 'no!' . His answers has changed though... maybe he listened to Bob Metcalfe? Anyway, s eems...

Tim Yang tells it how it is - the real top 10 tips for anonymous blogging: "As many of you know, Reporters without Borders released a PDF handbook about blogging for dissident bloggers . Actually a lot of it also deals with making a good blog...

Noticed something this morning. Let me try to explain.... Mary Jo Foley (of Microsoft Watch ) is carrying ads in her RSS feed (in fact this is provided via ZiffDavis.com - MW is a ZD company)) - no news there I think. What's funny is that her RSS feed...