Forget waiting for your favorite website to create a Google Toolbar button, Matt Cutts shows you how to make your own.

Google’s financial report seems to have disappointed Wall Street.

Charlene Li: My definition of a blogging solution is a software or service that enables the online publication and management of a blog. At a minimum, the solution should allow the user to set up a Web page, write posts, and manage them. Blog support services like FeedBurner or aggregators like NewsGator don’t fall into this category.

May as well put a hockey mask on the face of the Google operating system stories that keep cropping up; another version of the story that will not die contends an internally developed version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution from Google is in the works.

IDG News reports that Microsoft has revamped its blogging policy after many employees expressed outrage over the company’s abrupt censoring of a Chinese blogger.

On-demand entertainment like gaming, videos, and music should see consumers spend more and more on them over the next five years, reaching $9 billion by 2010.

According to Nathan Weinberg, Dateline NBC is courting certain tech bloggers to link to a special live blog they are hosting in conjunction with their series on sexual predators.

Lots of people have been downloading the chatter about Google possibly buying the Napster music service, but Google said it’s not happening.

The Internet Explorer team released a new version which includes our new RSS platform.

Open source marketing is a great notion, but it’s slow to catch on.

A report on Mobile Search branding has released some interesting findings.

Goodmail Systems announced that AOL and Yahoo are going to implement their pay-to-play email authentication system. With the Goodmail service AOL, Yahoo and eventually numerous ISP’s would charge permission based newsletter publishers a fraction of a cent per email in …

Aaron posts a great rundown on Google Toolbar 4 for Internet Explorer and what it means for search engine optimization.

Over on the Google Adsense blog they are providing invaluable tips on how to optimize your Adsense ads to make more money.

BoingBoing points to The ThoughtSafe, a USB stick that is encrypted and contains a custom version of MSN Messenger.

Corporate users of Microsoft’s productivity suites Office XP and Office 2003 will have to upgrade their software, in the wake of Microsoft’s court loss in a patent suit.

There’s been a lot of talk about the 25 percent.

Wikipedia has blocked certain US Congressional IP addresses over allegations that certain staffers repeatedly ignored community policy and edited out certain passages of articles they object to.

Jeff Jarvis’ rant the other day about conferences strikes a chord for me as I’m involved in speaking at quite a few during the next few months (see the links in the left-hand column).

If you are like most bloggers, you often discover that finding time to blog can be an issue.

Aaron Pratt turns out another great SEO interview.

After General Motors made a call to television viewers to “Google” the Pontiac brand name, it didn’t take long for Mazda to launch a keyword counterattack. Sponsored search results carried the echo of Mazda marketing snickers as Pontiac searchers were invited to a side-by-side comparison under the link title “Pontiac vs. Mazda.”

Surprise, surprise. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney appointed a successor to the departed CIO of the state’s Information Technology Division, Peter Quinn, and stood behind the current plan to implement OpenDocument Format support by January 2007.

In the world of web development, the choice of which development language to use commonly comes down to two popular choices.