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Google seems to be coming out with a great new service every week. Here are 3 you should try out:
Google Desktop Search: Not only does it enable you to search your files on your computer fast and efficiently (much better than the native XP search), but I have found it most useful in searching …

I went to a talk at the Silicon Valley Common Wealth Club last night which posed the questions: “Are blogs a valid grassroots form of journalism? Or is there too much chance for inaccuracy and not enough fact-checking?” with a panel of uberbloggers:
DAN GILLMOR, Grassroots Media
DAVID PESCOVITZ, co-editor, BoingBoing.net
JUDE BARRY, Catapult Strategies, www.sanjoseinside.com
DAVID SATTERFIELD, Managing …

The other night I went to a fascinating panel discussion at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, famous for the mouse and other technological breakthroughs) hosted by BayCHI. There were 5 panelists, representing the cream of today's Search Engines (conspicuously absent was MSN):
Peter Norvig, Director of Search Quality at Google
Ken Norton, Director of Product …

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I came across a fascinating site, the Annotated New York Times, which tracks online discussions on NYTimes articles. We get the physical version of the paper every morning, and occasionally I even have time to read it. I often wonder what kind of reaction certain articles provoke, and now there's a great way to find …

Since the beginning of the internet in the early nineties, browser market share has wildly fluctuated. As an excellent article on the browser wars at evolt.org explains:
In the First Era of browser history Mosaic and the other early browsers ruled. The Second Era was that of Netscape dominance. Microsoft's challenge to Netscape marked the beginning …