For years, the major search engines have been building membership lists by offering a diverse range of services to registered users.

Valleywag proves that they’re not just interested in who has the hottest body in the Valley.

The two companies submitted competing bids during San Francisco’s call for wireless broadband proposals, but have now teamed on a single proposal that will offer two tiers of service.

HBO is planning to promote the new season of “Sopranos” by using Google Maps. Time Warner’s cable network plans to form interactive maps of New Jersey to keep track of the characters and where events occur, as well as a way to help viewers remember old storylines.

If you’ve got questions, the users at Yahoo Answers don’t have blank stares; they may have answered your question already, and the Yahoo Answers engineers have made it easier to find that answer with the wonders of Ajax programming.

Technorati’s Dave Sifry has a word of advice for blogger upstarts: find your niche and aim for “The Magic Middle.” Sifry says there’s a middle ground, where topic specialization, a modest number of inbound links, and a little help from some new features can be enough to climb the ladder of blog success.

If you are curious about how ads from the forthcoming adCenter service will look after it replaces Overture this summer, a testing site lets visitors glimpse the future according to adCenter.

What it doesn’t show: the prospect of a leveled-off online ad marketplace.

The MyWeb Development Team fills us in on some recent updates to My Web 2.0.

After Microsoft’s Robert Scoble instructed his blog readers to place the word “brrreeeport” on their own blogs to test the various blog engines, the blogosphere reacted quickly and Technorati was quick to toot its own horn as the winner. Feedster begs to differ and thinks Yahoo should kiss its…

The Well co-founder Larry Brilliant has accepted the position as the executive director of Google’s philanthropic endeavor, Google.org. Larry Brilliant brings a combination of medical background and technological savvy to his new job…

Spending for Windows servers passed that for Unix servers in the fourth quarter of 2005, as Windows passed the venerable operating system in the global market for the first time.

Microsoft has released Microsoft Dynamics Snap, a collection of programs that “snap” into Microsoft Office 2003.

You can pat yourself on the back if you’re one of the thousands of small business professionals that have set up a blog to communicate with your potential clients.

“In spite of the huge benefit search engines like Google provide”, US District Court Judge, A Howard Matz has ruled that that images drawn from a pornographic, membership based site Perfect10, might violate US copyright laws.

Yahoo’s Matt McAlister discovers that both the Washingtonpost.com and CJRDaily have added “Bookmark with del.icio.us” buttons to their article templates today.

Publicis, a massive conglomerate of advertising and PR agencies, has formed a new standalone consultancy to help clients “exploit the rapidly changing digital, interactive and mobile communication environment.”

A tablet pc is a personal computer that has a touch screen. Much lighter and more manageable in small spaces than a laptop, a tablet pc is a truly personal computer.

The long legal feud between IBM and SCO over alleged infringement of source code owned by SCO took a dramatic step in its discovery phase.

The Pew Internet & American Life Project released data last week that shows 40% of Americans go online with no specific purpose.

A new study from Infonetics Research reported big numbers for secure routers in 2005. While price pressure drove prices down along with overall revenues, the number of units moved climbed 121%.

Google suffered a setback in court last Friday as US District Judge Howard Matz ruled that thumbnail displays retrieved by the company’s image search feature were a likely violation of copyright law. Links to third party sites and the practice of “framing” the image above those sites, however, were not considered to be in violation.

A new feature on the Technorati blog search site lets users dub blogs as Favorites; users can track those blogs for updates and share those Favorites with others.

But Will They Send Them Too?

Technorati continues to crank out services faster than the Keelber’s can crank out cookies.