Mary found her successful business at a major crossroads.

Beta 2 of FeedDemon 2, the RSS aggregator for Windows, was released this week.

I’ve been reading more and more bloggers assert that the blogroll is a bankrupt idea and should be deleted from blogs.

OK, I am totally hooked on two memetrackers, memeorandum and TailRank. I can’t decide which one is better.

graywolf has made some good observations about definitions appearing above the organic search results in Google.

Steve Rubel has coined a great term: “Silver Medals“, for those secondary results Google will sometimes show on searches. Don’t be surprised if you hear that being thrown around a bit.

Young people like MySpace, but love their cellphones; MySpace wants to tap into that love with a line of mobile phones and a service so users can carry their brand wherever they go.

Charlene Li gives an overview of Forrester’s new “Social Computing” report. Key “tenets of social computing” outlined by Charlene:

Sun Microsystems announced the release of the Beta release of their new Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6). They called the effort Project Mustang. They’ve added some features and improved on others to improve developers’ Java experience.

Google’s Inside AdWords blog says that Google has extended the deadline for submitting ads for its print advertising program four days to February 24.

Opera has done a minor release, going from 8.51 to 8.52. They fixed some minor security and performance issues, and one thing that was near and dear to me: Bloglines.

Doing anything for the next 15 mins? That’s how long you’ll need to read the Financial Times article on the rise of blogging as a publishing medium and challenger to print.

Can you guess VoIP company Vonage’s latest selling point? Nope. Try again. Sorry, no. It’s cheaper phone sex. Seriously. No, really, it is.

Paul Adams (via Seth) wonders “why radio stations can’t ping you by sms or even phone when they play a song you request.

Bradley Horowitz, who manages the Technology Development Group at Yahoo, has been bitten by the blogging bug.

Reuters is hosting a Financial Glossary Wiki, a fascinating case study for the way enterprises will host professional communities.

A contact from Sprint tipped us off about this one…

Steve Jobs will take the big blue and yellow signs along with the customer lists Blockbuster owns and turn them into an Apple digital video empire, in a scenario contemplated by pundit Robert X. Cringely.

As a recovering product manager, Jeremy’s post (drawn from this one by Tom Coates) on the “Future of Web Apps” rang true in many ways.

Have trouble making purchase decisions? Toshiba has developed a mobile phone technology that scans product bar codes and collects an overall product rating based on what the blogosphere has to say about it.

In ten days, HBO plans to go live with a Google Maps mashup that will help viewers track the actions on the Sopranos.

An online place for dealing Beanie Babies and Happy Meal toys now spans a far-flung ecosystem of PowerSellers, Affiliates, and brick-and-mortar storefronts.

I just got off a conference call with David McInnis, founder of PRWeb, where he announced several recent and brand new services.

What did we do for fun before the Internet? Oh yeah, other stuff. Pew Internet and American Life reports that the number of Internet users going online every day for no particular reason (a.k.a. surfing the Web) other than to kill time has matched the number that go online for news.