Google and AOL- what’s the deal?

John Battelle: “Er, you’ve been an AOL partner - in a very major way - for more than five years. And you’re NOW just getting around to this? AOL has never talked to Google about redirects? Indexing non HTML content? Robots.txt? I find that, well, hard to believe. Something is not quite adding up.”
While Google [...]

Xbox/Atari 3600 Mod

Looks like fun- but I wouldn’t want to risk it on my box.

Indie blog search dead?

Jason Calacanis: “Half of the indie blog search engines will shut down, go out of business, or just stagnate as the major portals take over this space.”
A bunch of Jason’s predictions seem like “look at how smart I am for selling to AOL”, but this one really resonates. There is just no need or demand [...]

Scoble dislikes preachy ex-employees

As do I.
Here’s the thing Mark- while you think Microsoft doesn’t know how to ship software anymore, everyone else knows that working until 4am doesn’t give you any better chance of success in shipping. Why don’t you just add more people to your projects while you’re at it also?

A draw

ZDNet: “The latest clash between Microsoft and Google has ended in a draw”