A survey of which major search engine results in the best conversion rate puts AOL as #1, and Google dead last.

I had the pleasure of sitting down via Skype to talk with the esteemed Steve Gillmor and Dan Farber last week for a Gillmor Daily podcast.

Listening this morning to a BBC World Service radio interview with Peter Robertson, vice-chairman of the Chevron oil company, I was struck in particular by his commentary about a website where the public can join Chevron in an online discussion about the future of energy.

If you’re interested in seeing the future of the Web, look no further than this gigundo list of Web apps developed using Ruby on Rails.

In what could be a landmark moment for citizen journalism, four newspapers plan to syndicate bloggers’ content on their own sites through a new program called Blogburst.

And he’s found that TailRank is sending him more links than Memeorandum is (although Memeorandum is sending more traffic).

Blogs evolve over time. They change even when we aren’t thinking they are changing in any way.

From the popular journal, Nature, an interesting article on how biologists are using Google Earth to support their efforts.

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.