You don’t often hear about .Mac (aside from the rare outage or upgrade), Apple’s online services offering/division. And yet, the services offer an interesting value proposition, especially for Mac owners. .Mac is a bundle of online services, nicely (neatly?) integrated…

Susan Mernit points to this press release from Somacon, announcing their new service, which allows Yahoo! Store participants to automatically flow their product feed into Google’s Froogle service.

Dan Gillmor sets the stage with the first of three planned Sunday articles on politics and the effects on technology and the tech economy. Dan takes a fairly neutral perspective, thus I’m forwarding it on (this blog isn’t intended to…

There was a lot of back and forth this week on AOL’s new RSA double authentication login announcement. Frankly, I was quite surprised to see some people criticizing AOL for offering this service, and claiming that it was unnecessary. While…

Susan Mernit has a nice wrap-up (with 14 links) on all of the rumor mongering going on about Google fielding a browser, or as Scoble hints, perhaps something even bigger… Considering everything Google offers after 6 years (save Search) is…

Yahoo Search Blog runs a post titled May The Buzz Be With You, highlighting some interesting trends in movie searches. Taken at its face, it points to pop culture tendencies in consumers, which is certainly interesting in and of itself.…

Battelle notes that a search on a Google SVP’s name turns up an Adwords ad for someone selling a private Caribbean island. (The ad has since disappeared, likely after someone’s account was depleted or the exec in question caught wind…)…

Deeje Cooley points to a press release from 21 Publish announcing that they are releasing an OEM service that allows licensees to create private communities of interconnected blogs. While the details are a bit sparse (and I’ve yet had a…

Battelle riffs on an article in the WSJ about Comcast’s upcoming VOD offering: “I’ve long fantasized about having a web-like search interface to video (who wouldn’t want to type “The Office” Season 2 into a Google video search, and get…

Just a quick heads up that posts will be a bit lighter, as I’m focusing most of my efforts on getting a new service up and running… something I hope all of you will value. I’m hoping to catch up…