Thoughts from the other side…

Fwded by someone at work… pretty funny,  but I still prefer the first interview they did (http://www.google-watch.org/playboy.html) especially given its consequences

April 1, 2006

Playboy Contributing Editor Dan Schlep met again with the Google founders at the Googleplex for a reunion interview. "As was the case the last time, Brin was playing a sweaty game of volleyball when I arrived,” reported [...]

are the buzzword [...]

via scobleizer: http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/03/19/what-is-web-20-heres-a-list/Sacred Cow Dung has a great list of *hundreds* of Web 2.0 services that are available now. He covers most of my favorites: flickr, del.icio.us and live but forgot to mention gmail. The only obscure one I know that they’ve missed [...]

Problem:

The Wife hears a hot new hiphop tune on TV and wants a copy for herself.
Given that we’re entertaining some friends later in the day, bonus points for
getting them to listen to it as well.

Ye Olde Solution:

In the good old days, this meant

A
drive down to the local music store.
Buying
[...]

MSN Spaces just added the ability for us to profit from our spaces! If you sign up to list ads in your spaces, you’ll get paid ( a few cents) every time someone clicks on your sponsored ads.So, go ahead and help me support my sponsors! Click the ads above [...]

Chris Prillo has a good list of things he doesn’t like about the Xbox 360 at http://chris.pirillo.com/blog/_archives/2005/12/16/1453035.html.
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My take on this:
#2: You can only download one thing at one time. This is incredibly annoying! especially the first time you boot up a legacy game like Halo 2 which then start to download each map pack one by [...]

Nicole from the MSN Messenger group has a great aricle up about how to create your own MSN Messenger bot. http://spaces.msn.com/messengersays/Blog/cns!5B410F7FD930829E!7335.entry
Download away and write your own [...]

One of the first things I did with the Nokia 6630 after I got it last year was use it to listen to podcasts. Given the relatively small number of podcasts I listened to, I just copied them over to the Nokia using Bluetooth.
Now, I’ve been looking for a better solution since

Transferring a 20MB mp3 over [...]

A friend of mine sent me a link to the google blog and felt it was totally cool: http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/12/polar-expression.html.

Is it just me or does anyone else think that the ‘googleblog’ is pathetic? I’ve seen nothing of note there in the 6 months of its existence and it’s filled with watered down PR statements that totally misses [...]