buzz shit

Interest-based advertising uses information about the web pages people visit to make the online ads they see more relevant. Relevant advertising, in turn, has fueled the content, products and services available on the Internet today.... and the privacy issues around it

a test case

tech-spec comparison of the three mobile 'big hitters'. Nokia vs Google vs Apple. Apple wins.

google street view on your mobile. cheesey ad, but exciting prospect.

Watch out Apple... touchscreen, better apps and cheaper...

breaking news plotted on a world map.... cool. Maybe adding a heatmap of really 'newsy' places would be more interesting.

Google Knol opened up to the public. Thought i'd check out some of its articles. Really thorough one here in the making, on usability, focusing on HCI

I;m kinda surprised by jon's take on this - I thought he'd be in the long tail economics camp with regard to the text based adwords model. odd. but more interesting and thought provoking for all that.

A mashup of Google Maps and Twitter to show the latest tweets related to ARG, The Lost Ring

Useful tutorial on how to search for relevant material on the web. How to make the most of Google.

"top down semantic solutions". this space is becoming very 'enterprise' and corporate very quickly. which is probably a good thing for solutions that work, but what are the algorithms hard coding into our information economy?

Kevin goes round the houses a bit to describe the usp of Google's social cloud. As rel= becomes standard will it become harder to churn friends and contacts you no longer want?