Deeje Cooley and I had dinner tonight to catch up on life, shared interests, and of course all things technology. Amongst a variety of trends spotted, product futures foreseen and ideas generated, one question in particular stands out in my…

Pamela Parker gets the scoop the other big outlets missed in announcing AOL’s new Shopping Search offering. In addition to providing the online comparison shopping services that everyone has already reported, AOL will also return local offline “steals and deals”…

“ID:Entity”, a frequent commentor on John Battelle’s Search Blog, replied to my post on Search Engines and Active Listening, originated by Jeremy Zawodny. Here’s his reply: Tony, I agree, but what happens if you swtich search provider, how long till…

I’ve got a ‘slew’ of what I consider to be timely, accurate and insightful blogs and traditional media outlets for Search, RSS, consumer electronics and general technology blogs, but am still searching for e-commerce and social software/media sources. I came…

Search Engines that Talk Back (Jeremy Zawodny’s blog) Jeremy’s thoughts on search as a “skill” are interesting. His conclusion, based on his considerable knowledge, is that search shouldn’t have to be a ‘skill’; it should just work. This is an…

Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger Scoble has an excellent write-up on how to get your blog “discovered” by potential readers, fellow bloggers, et al. I’ve already been doing most everything that he recommends, save actually clicking through on my links to…

Rock the Vote — Online Voter Registration Every time I’ve tried to use California’s state government site to find information on registering to vote (primaries, nationals, etc), I’ve ended up frustrated. Missing files, broken links, you name it. And so,…

I recently sent the following note to Blogger support: I have a blog that I currently publish to my domain (www.buzzhit.com) via Blogger. The main page is pushed as a child page of my domain (i.e., www.buzzhit.com/buzzblog.html). What I’d like…

I attended The Kelsey Group’s DD:ILM (Drilling Down: Interactive Local Media) conference in Santa Clara, CA during my time with KRD, and was impressed with the caliber of the discussions (and therefore, the attendees). The show was sold out (and…

Hot on the heels of announcing that it was going to enforce tough new rules on credit card advertisers, a new report shows just how easy it is to use Google to find live credit card numbers. Surely I’m not…