Hmmm, Bill Gates is reported to have said “we’re back kind of in Internet-bubble era in terms of people thinking: OK, traffic. We want traffic. We want traffic. There are still some areas where it is unclear what’s going to come out of that.”

Nick Denton’s not too pleased with the path Nick Douglas was taking Valleywag, so he’s kicked him out, changed the look of the site and announced a new focus on more hard-hitting news.

No doubt you may have heard already, none the less, ArcGIS 9.2 is now shipping. Highlights of the ArcGIS 9.2 release include the following:

InfoSpace, Inc an online provider of search and directory services has launched a new search engine aimed at children between the ages of 8 to 13. The new search engine is called Zoo.com. The goal is minimize the exposure to explicit content while providing a solid search engine.

10 Zen Monkeys is out with a post chroniciling the latest in the Nick Douglas / Valleywag “change in employment” situation and they do a pretty good job giving us the story so far.

Somewhere along the way with Socialtext, I found myself partially in the events business.

Guy Kawasaki delivered the opening keynote address at this year’s PubCon. In his talk, he gave a detailed overview outlining ten specific points that innovative companies should heed when developing new products and services.

Of the 175-plus feeds I track using Bloglines, it can be daunting to look at all of them at once. They might as well be stacks of magazines piled up on my desk.

Two of eBusiness’s most “informal” companies are top performers when it comes to making good use of their money, according to a new study. It may not come as a surprise, but Google and Apple are both extremely efficient at translating their research and development funds into products.

Do you ever wonder what’s the traffic of ProBlogger, GeekZone or The Bastardly ?

In a survey conducted by the American Advertising Federation results show that most advertisers are reaching out to new media to improve advertising strategies. Ad executives see a trend toward more advertising in online video. 53% of the 168 respondents said they believe that 20% or more of their TV advertising budgets will move to online video by 2010.

Much has been written about the impact of social media on the mainstream media and the advertising industry. We’ve all seen survey-after-survey and study-after-study show declines in readership (and therefore advertising) amongst the print media, local and national broadcast television news, etc.

Yessirreee, Google sure is doing a good job of getting rid of those arbitrage links from the ad space.

As of late, the press and reviews for Microsoft’s digitial music player Zune have been less than stellar. Bearing that in mind, does that give Microsoft the right to disassociate itself from websites or bloggers which they consider disparaging?

At present, there is a growing nuisance for users and administrators alike of sites that ruin web servers and more particularly, blogs.

Learning UNIX is a seemingly daunting task, there are thousands of commands out there, each with hundreds of options. But in reality you only need to know a few of them.

If you’re using Safari to access Google Docs & Spreadsheets, you’ll end up on the unsupported browsers page, telling you “Sorry, but this browser does not support web word-processing.” However, as John Wiley found out, Google also tells you (my emphasis)…

For a long time now, Google Web Search API result have been flaky – you search, nothing appears, then you refresh the same search, and you get a result.

Google’s assortment of software for computer users now includes Skype, eBay’s multi-billion dollar VoIP acquisition, as an option alongside Google Talk.

Mozilla users nearly took to the streets in protest when confronted with the news that Microsoft had acquired the increasingly popular Firefox web browser. Fortunately for Firefox users, reports of Mozilla’s death have been greatly exaggerated.

After a weekend to reflect, I’ve come up with the Top 10 Things I Learned at the Web 2.0 Summit that was put on by O’Reilly and hosted by John Battelle.

Someday I’ll get Adobe Blogger John Nack on but here I video Peter Ryce.

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I’m giving up on version numbering. The future of the Web is Web 0.