UPDATE 4/5/2005 (post + 6 months): Google Maps now includes a satellite view courtesy of Keyhole’s technology No surprise here; after I called them a Local Search Sleeper after the Web 2.0 conference, Google announced this morning that they had…

John Battelle has an excellent write-up on Mary Meeker’s latest analysis. It’s good enough as is that I’m just going to point to it and hold comments until I’ve had a chance to reflect… John’s post here Mary Meeker’s analysis…

Apple announces iPod Photo(!), in 40GB ($499) and 60GB ($599) models. The new player offers 15 hours of music playback, or, 5 hours of photo slideshows. This is great news for the microcontent publishing meme (and sites like Flickr). Here’s…

FeedBurner.com has announced “SmartCast“, a new way for FeedBurner’s service to tweak your RSS or Atom feed. What is it (and why should you care)? It allows those who don’t have an easy way of building an RSS feed that…

Everyone’s running the AP story (link in headline), so I’ll try to add a few thoughts: 1) If I search, it’s through the Google search toolbar; it’s on any machine that I use regularly. The thought of having to go…

News.com reports that Akimbo will soon be selling their Video On Demand (“Queue and View”) solution on Amazon.com; Amazon will have an exclusive through December. As noted, this is not the rumored Amazon Movie Rental offering. The best part of…

Deeje Cooley points to a BlogHeard post about BlogFlix. While I’ve only looked at the brief demos on the site, what I saw was pretty impressive. More importantly, these folks aren’t trying to be your ‘shoebox’. The service works with…

Does anyone (Roland Tanglao?) know if PayPal is actually aggregating these micropayments into a larger bill (ala Apple’s iTunes store), or if they are actually processing the individual purchases? Either way, given Yahoo!’s retreat from PayDirect, PayPal’s dominance continues unabated.…

I had a nice chat this morning with Steven Lavine, CEO of Transparensee Systems, about his company’s new offering, the Discover Search Engine (DSE). DSE uses fuzzy matching to analyze database content and structure, so that it can return results…

Tod Maffin lays out some good thoughts on the future of Podcasting. Again… just abstract away blog content, podcasting content, etc, and understand what this all means from the boader context. Very exciting stuff.