New chat features for Gmail should begin rolling out to its users over the next few weeks, as Google tightens the integration between its Talk and Gmail services.

Some interesting post Super Bowl activity this week:

Apparently, users of the popular Firefox extension AdBlock, which stops advertisements from being displayed in the browser, does not play nice with the newly announced Gmail Chat feature.

Marketing Experiments has announced a “Back of a Napkin” business planning contest. They say they are are looking for the next Google’.

Did you hear that MyComments was released last week? Nope? Weird.

New data from Gallup notes that one in five Americans say they consult blogs “frequently” or at least “occasionally.”

A new search engine that debuted at Demo 2006 focuses on the needs of programmers to help find source code and other technical content.

Google software could be pre-installed on PCs from Dell, which could place a lot of Google’s alternatives to Microsoft on millions of personal computers by default.

The folks at LearField Creative take a swing at simplifying RSS, adding to the conversation started here. (They define it as a “personal media outlet.”) But I still think we’ve a ways to go before adoption is widespread based on that idea.

Telecoms like Verizon and AT&T have been pushing harder to get their dreams of a two-tiered Internet supported by Congress and content providers.

Cnet reports that Google is merging its Google Talk with Gmail to form Gmail Chat.

The main reason webmasters fail to make their websites accessible is because they don’t understand the concept of an “accessible website” in the first place.

SVT, the Swedish public service broadcaster, has started Pod-TV.

InternetWeek and InformationWeek have a good in-depth article on enterprise wikis.

SAP AG announced on Friday an expansion of its mySAP Customer Relationship Management (mySAP CRM) solution to include an on-demand option. The SAP CRM on-demand solution is designed for large and midsize organizations to manage sales, service and marketing in an easy-to-use solution delivered directly via the Internet, offered through a subscription-based licensing model.

British DJ Flavorjenkins wants a job at Google, so to prove he deserves it, he’s showing off a music video he made in Google Earth.

Instead of waiting to pick up a copy of the Friday newspaper to read what critics have to say about new releases at the theater, fans have moved their attention online.

The Opera 9 Technology Preview 2 will integrate support for the BitTorrent protocol and should be available soon for testing.

I’ve been following the growing blogosphere buzz during the past week about 30 Boxes, a new online calendar application that some are saying is the killer calendar application.

FON wants users to sign up to share their wireless broadband access with others, an idea that has netted the company some $21.7 million from Google, Skype, Sequoia Capital, and Index Ventures.

Consumerist and BoingBoing are indicating that Nvidia may (note: speculation) be working with firm AEG to create faux online personnas to develop positive reputations in online communities to pitch Nvidia products.

Here are actual comment spams I received on Sunday:

The French Police Force has chosen to replace installations of Internet Explorer on its network with the open source Firefox browser.

It’s nice to hear this can happen to the unfathomably wealthy also. Sergey Brin and Larry Page reportedly had their credit cards rejected in a Brazilian restaurant. Their bill: approximately $53.