Cool – Google CEO Eric Schmidt is standing up against warped gov’t privacy invasion attempts. The Guardian today writes:

Just as it’s important to choose the right colors for your design, it’s also very important to make good choices about the fonts you use in your design.

Google cut off Ionut Alex. Chitu’s only current option of making money from his blog, Google Operating System, by disabling his AdSense.

Google has launched a new blog called Google CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) according to a report by Threadwatch. http://www.threadwatch.org/node/9881 Google plans for the blog site to be a tool to communicate with the general public, advertisers and other agencies. Their …

Steve Rubel over at Micropersuasion has a brief interview he did with Megaphone Mark Cuban, billionaire media mogul and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, in which the two talked about things like the “Long Tail” of the Web (and Mark’s own coinage – the “vert ramp” – and how it affects new media. As is his wont, Mark shot from the hip about what the future holds and where advertisers should be putting their money, saying:

Zack, the three examples you give appear to me as signs that OSS is under attack by vendors who don’t gork the value of an open community & the customer value delivered. Yep, even the MSFT deal with Zend.

About a year ago when Riya first launched with a big splash as a new Web 2.0 company with super exciting facial recognition software I was excited. I was super excited.

The newest 2G iPod Shuffle comes with a convenient clip attached for consumers to, as the commercials demonstrate, clip onto the pocket of a pair of pants. That may seem like a relatively simple and convenient concept, but there’s one …

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has launched an initiative to help increase awareness of countries that actively censor the Internet, and singled out Yahoo’s Jerry Yang for specific complaints about his company’s dealings with oppressive governments.

In case you all were wondering what’s going to become of Google Video now that the YouTube purchase has gone through, I think Google has an answer for you – it’s business as usual. Not only is Google Video going …

Okay, someone explain this to me: Intel, a company that makes microprocessors, is backing and selling - but not profiting from – a suite of “Enterprise 2.0″ software for companies that includes blogging software (Typepad), a wiki (Socialtext), and RSS feed software (Simplefeed and Newsgator), called Suite Two.

TheServerSide has a thread announcing that the Apache Geronimo team has released a performance profile for Geronimo 1.1.1.

Industry analysts have been watching the worldwide web closely over the past few months to see how political ads fared in Election ’06. Surprisingly, it appears that many politicians do not see the value in paying for Internet advertising.

For those of us that reside primarily in geekdom, the state of any major technology, especially of the online variety, is big news.

So Apple released the specs for the new MacBooks today: Just one-inch thin, the new MacBooks are up to 25 percent faster than the previous generation and feature a built-in iSight® video camera for on-the-go video conferencing, Apple’s MagSafe™ Power …

As you probably know, there are a lot of articles on creating link bait. But what is link bait for your customers and how can you create the most efficient content?

It is of little doubt that every new Internet start-up, especially those related to the search industry, would like to emulate the Google success story. Hell, who wouldn’t? However, as a fledgling search engine trying to make a name, if …

So there’s been a lot of talk about widgets and gadgets in the Web.20 landscape. More and more, people want the ability to completely customize their online experience. Operasoft, Mozilla, and Microsoft have all taken steps to incorporate widgets and …

A small dream of mine came true. We’ve been preaching an ecosystem of tools for some time now. We’ve helped customers stitch them together in interesting ways.

As we reported last week, Google has indeed made Checkout free until the end of the year.

Actually, I don’t agree that Configuration Management on its own is a process in a strict BPM sense.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a processor that uses 512 cores to achieve up to 512 billion floating point operations per second.

Google has announced changes to its method of assessing the quality of landing pages as part of its AdWords service. The guidelines for landing page evaluation, however, still remain somewhat of a mystery.

SFGate.com posted a list of the top 10 lies of Web 2.0 which geeky types in particular will find amusing (well, I did).