When we are young, all we learn we learn through play. Why should it stop there?

The Texas-based computer maker not only has a hot brand with appeal to big-spending hardcore gamers, but a line of products with AMD processors instead of the Intel chipsets that dominate Dell’s computer lineup.

Google Reader has a new feature: You can share your starred items, or any label, with others, or you can show them in a widget on your blog.

We all know the frustration of poorly designed automated systems. You email customer service only to receive an automated response that doesn’t answer your question.

Google has released a new version of their Gmail Notifier for the Mac. It’s a Universal Binary version, so it works nicely on both Power PC and Intel Macs.

The worldwide sports leader and the online travel site have a website in development that will literally make it easier to follow a favorite team around during the season.

Whether it is C or C# or C++, somewhere there is a website that can help the vaunted programmer find some useful bit for his or her work.

eBay is now offering RSS feeds for any search result you conduct. Fantastic!

Delicious is a social bookmarking system, that is notable, not only for its unusual web address http://del.icio.us, but for its unusual approach to content building that is becoming increasingly popular.

One of my (few) pet peeves is getting emails from people with the canned Plaxo message.

Interesting (and long) article at eWeek looks at steps Google is taking to help retailers get their content found by the search engine.

Bob Cagill sees a trend. First, Union Square Ventures shed its Web site entirely in favor of going all blog.

When the Internet first began its boom, the technologies used in design were forgiving. W3-Compliance wasn’t as necessary because there were fewer browsers, fewer users, and overall fewer technologies in use.

Not many people expected the “replace your proprietary OS with Linux” movement to strike a blow against the engineers in Cupertino instead of Redmond, but that is just what one educator has done.

Through the use of a free client download from Ipwalk, users can enable realtime monitoring of their website’s uptime and any other user can check that status online.

“…entrepreneurs need to interact with their target market and then communicate effectively with them in order to build any relationships that may lead to a sale. How do you reach your customer if you can’t afford well-placed advertising, need a larger budget to produce a radio or tv spot and want more of a connection than one night networking events?…”

As IT specialists, a big way to differentiate yourself is to make sure that you’re branding your company. Focus on selling your company name with its new industry twist.

comScore and Google have released a new study – “The Role of Search in Consumer Buying” – which examined holiday related purchases to see which completed online and which offline.

Dropping in on Wheeling, West Virginia yesterday to rally support for the Iraqi War, President Bush also dropped a word that maybe even surprised himself: blogs. The armchair warriors at home whispered among themselves, “did he just say blogs?’”

eWeek reports Google may consider joining Eclipse.

Good news from Mapquest about their latest challenge to developers… the MapQuest OpenAPI Developers Challenge eligibility has been extended to Canada (excluding Quebec).

The venerable CBS news show celebrated Mike Wallace’s departure by inking a deal to place expanded content from “60 Minutes” on Yahoo after the broadcast.

AjaxWrite offers a functional word processor compatible with Microsoft Word documents, and even exports documents into PDF.

Just received a whole host of interesting stats from a study by Yahoo Search Marketing.