Worried that when you comment on a blog, you’ll either forget about the conversation or, worse still, your comment will be an orphan, left to fend for itself?

Garett Rogers at ZDNet notices that hidden within Gmail source code are hints that Google is developing a future version of Gmail, “Caribou”, that will allow people to point their domain DNS servers at Google to use Gmail.

An intrepid blogger delved deep into the JavaScript underpinning Google’s Gmail service, and found a snippet of code pointing to a potential feature.

Nathan has detailed screenshots of the new features offered in Google Desktop 3.

It’s all over for C. Ruby and Python have replaced C as the programming language of choice for developers who aren’t churning out Visual Basic daily. At least, that’s what the rumor mill suggests.

The search advertising company has expanded its magazine ad test to a broader number of magazines in three of its vertical markets. Google’s test of magazine ads began last summer, and involved two computer-oriented publications.

Mozilla released an update to the Firefox browser earlier this month which, the release notes say, provides improved stability, improved support for Mac OS X, fixes for several memory leaks and several security enhancements among other things.

If nothing else, this piece in the WSJ underscores the argument that bloggers are not journalists, or as Brian Oberkirch rightly puts it, “personal blogs are not media.”

Click on the image to see the slightly larger (and better in-focus) original on Flickr.

I got an early look at Edgeio a few months back at one of those famous TechCrunch parties but I was sworn to secrecy.

Devin Reams did some fancy math-o-matics and found that Google actually runs a higher percentage of ads on search results than MySpace does on its home page.

While Yahoo isn’t implementing Bill Gates suggestion that search engines should consider paying their users, Yahoo is thinking about giving some goodies to people who make Yahoo their primary search engine.

Remember back in your Psych 101 class when you learned about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? Bet you never expected to see it again in the business world, but… ta da!

Elinor Mills posts that Yahoo sent out a survey asking what people would require in order to switch full time to using Yahoo Search.

George Deutsch joined the US space agency via a White House appointment, and tried to get a staffer at NASA to add the word “theory” to every instance of Big Bang on NASA’s web sites.

Here, do a search for Memetrackers (Google, MSN, Yahoo). Now, why are none of their numbers accurate?

Sometimes I wonder if a company reaches a certain size and suddenly, almost like magic, they wake up one day and figure the normal boundaries of reality don’t apply to them anymore.

If you’re still not monitoring what is being said about your company, maybe this chilling article in The Economist will be your wake-up call.

At Apple’s in the eye of flaw finders, Mac users are warned that the growing popularity of the platform will attract viruses and security hacks.

Google has released a new version of its desktop search / sidebar suite. Google Desktop 3 has some cool new features:

Battelle extracts a useful snippet from a recent Gallup poll on internet usage.

The Oakland-based search engine has been working on its Continental flair, by adding a research center in Italy to complement the debut of two new search sites in Europe.

There’s no better way to cure writer’s block then to blog about some cool Firefox goodies.

The Internet Explorer blog tips that, besides using the handy status bar control in the bottom right corner, you can zoom in IE7 with just the keyboard.