The Los Angeles Times has come up with an intriguing new use for a tag cloud.

The “Wizard of Redmond” better known as Bill Gates announced this week Microsoft would increase funding for its Unlimited Potential (UP) program while delivering the keynote address at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum Europe in Lisbon, Portugal.

Dave Winer is worried that Microsoft is going to throw its weight around when it comes to RSS. I worry about that too. A lot.

It used to be a big deal when you got a great review in one of the computer magazines.

Wiki Wednesday London was an absolute blast. Good turnout of wiki enthusiasts, geek girls and folks I’ve met before.

How much is a Windows vulnerability worth to you?

Steven Sinofsky, check this out! (Steven is the guy who runs the Microsoft Office team and I believe is the highest ranking blogger currently at Microsoft).

Does Google want to have it all?? It sure seems that way at times.

Executives from the search advertising company blamed a higher than anticipated tax rate for most of the gap between its actual earnings and annual estimates, but some now claim taxes were only responsible for half of that difference.

Google has stated before it has no interest in becoming a provider of network services, but a job posting on its site solicits applications for Strategic Negotiators with “negotiation of dark fiber contracts” listed as part of the desired candidates’ experience.

If you want to build links to your blog, take a look at Jackwhisper’s latest post, titled “5 Things Steve Jobs Has Misled Us About In The Last 30 Years.

Yesterday, the German enterprise software vendor SAP announced it is entering the hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) market with the expansion of its mySAP CRM offering to include a hosted option.

This week I participated in forward looking internal seminar at Nokia hosted by CTO Yrj Neuvo.

The critic for Ad Age has covered Super Bowl advertising for 24 years, and in a recent interview huffed over the Rolling Stones’ participation in the big game as halftime entertainment.

Despite acceding to Beijing’s censorship requirements, which yielded Google access to the Chinese market, users of Google.cn in China found the site blocked at the government backbone server.

BlogPulse Live is a graphical real-time view of the most popular topics bloggers are posting about across several broad categories -

Instead of the February 27th showdown between the Department of Justice and Google over federal subpoenas taking place, the sitting judge has moved the date back two weeks.

Google’s Inside Adwords blog makes the excellent point that advertisers paying millions for a Super Bowl ad need to cover their bases on the online front, too.

In the United States, companies worth over $1 billion are handling about 147 lawsuits. That’s more good news for lawyers, but it’s also good news for the data storage and electronic discovery industry that manages and scrounges up data among petabytes of information.

Though the vast majority of AdWords advertisers will not have commercials running during Super Bowl XL on Sunday, they can still learn a lesson about ad targeting for on- and off-line media.

BBC News: Danish-Swedish dairy giant Arla Foods says the ongoing boycott of Danish products in the Middle East had so far cost it between 40m and 50m.

Don Dodge, former executive with AltaVista (the search engine Google basically killed off), interviews Gabe Rivera, founder of Memeorandum.