Tools & Technology

Microsoft recently announced the release of multi point touch surface computers, which allow you to control the computer with your hands.

RFIDs are likely to become increasingly insidious. Equally concerning is the fact that people may think they're protecting themselves when really they might not be, according to this blogger.

Last week Google published a study called The Ghost in the Browser: Analysis of Web-based Malware (PDF link) to war

The BBC reports that Google's Checkout payment service is now available to UK businesses.

Now, by just entering the URL to your Sitemaps XML URL listing in your robots.txt file, *all* search engines can automatically discovery it! Much more convenient than manually pinging each engine.

Frank Schilling suggests that Google could and should offer .goog domain names, in order to further their interne

From the Y! Search blog - Yahoo! Search Crawler, Slurp, is moving

Anyone who has seen their web server logs, has seen the Yahoo! crawler come by and leave its mark. It identifies itself as 'Yahoo! Slurp' and its domain is inktomisearch.com. For those of you who follow the search space, you can easily guess that this is one of the last historic remnants from our acquisition of Inktomi a few years ago. Well, the crawler finally decided to move and find a new home. We are moving our crawler from inktomisearch.com to crawl.yahoo.net.

MSN pulls a Google and breaks the link command

Live Search's WebLog : We are flattered, but...

For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:, you may have noticed that this functionality has been recently turned off. We have been seeing broad use of these features by legitimate users but unfortunately also what appears to be mass automated usage for data mining. So for now, we have made the tough call to block all queries with these operators.

www.friendadder.com, one of the oldest Myspace bot developers, sent out an email earlier today telling resellers to cease promoting its bots via myspace and 5 hours later sends a follow up letter that simply says: "We are unplugging the site due to the recent myspace news and communications."

I'm "advising" on a blog setup for SME. For safety-in-numbers, I told them to use WP. They'll need multi-author capability, trackback & comment spam protection, seo urls. They know jack about html, so some sort of wysiwyg editor (FCKeditor available for WP?).

Kevin Federline aka Mr Ex-Brittney Spears has launched his own branded search engine Search with Kevin, by searching you are entered in a contest and the "winner" gets a chance to party K-Fed at his birthday bash.

Joost created a script, which you can use to add some data to the Google Webmaster Central Link tool page.

BidBuddy lets the world see your bids:

BidBuddy, an Adwords bid management tool created by The Search Works leaks valuable Adwords data, such as CPC through its cookies. The bid management tool redirects visitors through the domain tsw0.com where it sets a cookie with the Adwords data.

Launched on Feb 20th, QuotationsBook is my new favorite quotations resource. A very cool 2.0 app.

Feedburner gives some context to the recent changes from google reader and how they affect your subscriber numbers. It's worth a read if that's an important metric for you FeedBurner's View of the Feed Market

You would have thought with all the negative press from the Blake Ross Google Self Promotion fiasco they would be a little gun shy. However today I noticed Google adding "note this" to the SERP listings when you are logged into your google account

Read/Write Web posted that the next major version of Firefox will support online applications offline:

Robert O’Callahan from Mozilla, who is based in NZ but drives the rendering engine of Mozilla/FireFox, spoke about how Firefox 3 will deliver support for offline applications. This is significant because you'll be able to use your web apps - like Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, etc - in the browser even when offline.

While many people are still trying to get their heads wrapped around social media one of the most under rated players in the game StumbleUpon is getting ready to move onto Wii gaming console. via TechCrunch

A company called Powerset is talking a big talk about slapping Google around and 'propelling' themselves past G courtesy of a 'natural language' engine that they will be launching later this year.

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