I'm in Redmond for a few days these weeks for some product group briefings and other meetings. I'm hoping to have some interesting new things to talk about tomorrow. In the meantime, here are a few things that caught my interest earlier today:

Doc Searls: "I think some of what we see in Web 2.0 (a term I've never liked, much as I like Tim, who has done the most to promulgate it… I think it's what we'll call the current bubble and the next crash) is the morality of generosity. At eTech, I saw a preview of a browser-based Photoshop/Album organizing/print product front-end service. The biggest thing the creator wanted to show was how generous Flickr is."

Virtual Server is now free and officially supports Linux for guest operating systems.

Apress has announced "betaBooks". Definitely an interesting concept.

More later.