John Battelle’s Searchblog: NEWS: A9, Amazon’s Search Portal, Goes Live: Reverberations Felt in Valley And… it rocks. – Good search results (licensed from Google!) – Very nice integration of Amazon commerce (just books for now)/Search-Inside-The-Book – Optional Search History tied…

Yahoo! News – ‘Apprentice’ Star Omarosa Fired 4 Times I’m long overdue for some serious blogging, which I hope to do soon, but I just can’t pass this up. I’ve watched The Apprentice faithfully (and am looking forward to next…

“There Goes the Neighborhood” by Benjamin Wallace-Wells — While you may not agree with Benjamin’s analysis of Greenspan’s words and actions, the facts & figures he shares in this article are insightful and profoundly scary. More so then ever, I’m…

USATODAY.com – Google sets up e-mail make that, Gmail — Google just declared war… free email, with 1GB of storage, all contextual (adsense) supported… attacks a primary revenue stream of Yahoo’s in a major way. Storage is a huge pain…

Sorry for this note, but I wanted to make you aware that your expression of happiness (sex groaning) has been really loud. It actually woke me up this morning, and nothing ever wakes me up besides an alarm clock or…

Data Storage Today – Next-Gen Storage – Toshiba Builds World’s Smallest Hard Drive: “The 0.85-inch measurement refers to the diameter of the magnetic disk to which data is recorded. Its initial capacity will be 2-4 gigabytes. Toshiba expects to start…

John Battelle’s Searchblog: FeedBurner: Know Your RSS Readers Deeje will like this one… John Battelle reports on FeedBurner, one of what will be a long string of enhancements (either directly, or via service businesses) that a) provide RSS feed usage…

The Salt Lake Tribune — FDA asks for better calorie labels IMO, all consumable items, whether sold at a store or restaurant, ought to have what I will now start calling complete “nutritional transparency”. The FDA needs to put some…

Pocatello Idaho State Journal: Local incident highlights pervasiveness of identity theft If you haven’t already heard, there’s a more aggresive means of identity theft & credit card number snatching going on… thieves are now using devices called Skimmers (aka Wedges)…

John Battelle’s Searchblog: Just 1 in 9 Small Business Know About Paid Search: “Just 1 in 9 Small Business Know About Paid Search According to this Kelsey/ConStat report. Those that do quickly put 23% of their marketing chips in the…