Winners and finalists were announced today in 21 categories by SOA Web Services Journal.

I highlighted this meme in my links tonight, but it’s so darn funny that I think it deserves its own post.

Google has once again answered my prayers for a mobile RSS reader with the launch of the Google Mobile Personalized homepage.

Google may have an online e-book store in the works. CEO Eric Schmidt implied this to reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, according to BBC News.

Here’s another RSS reader I saw in my server logs – it’s called Blogofy.

Are blogs a waste of your time and that of your business or clients?

I am going to MacWorld on Friday. Why? To be a little less boring.

I noticed this morning a link on Google’s home page to Google Pack, a collection of “essentials to make your PC just work.”

Niall Kennedy breaks the news that Google is getting ready to offer a feed reader API to allow third-party developers to build new views of feed data on top of Google’s backend.

Adoption of RSS feeds by those unfamiliar with it should get a boost when Microsoft unveils its latest iteration of Outlook, its email/calendar/contact application that is a staple in most businesses.

The next API Google opens to developers will be for its RSS feed reading service, Google Reader.

Backbase has a whole bunch of AJAX web applications that you can test drive.

So you’re wondering what to get the information supageek who needs something else? Perhaps you’re the one who can never get enough information? Can’t do without the news for even one moment? Boy is there a gift for you. It’s a new form of RSS reader. It’s called the RSSTroom Reader.

Gmail has added a mini RSS reader to all Gmail accounts. It was previously in a limited beta.

As part of the weekly speaker series that our Technology Development Group runs (well, really Chad does all the work), John Battelle visited to speak of a room packed full of Yahoos.

Fun thing. Today we were at Dunne and Crscenzi. Let’s see, we’re at an Italian restaurant in Ireland

I just got an email from Neville letting me know he had submitted our podcast, For Immediate Release, to Podzinger.

Doug Edwards has been joined by Ron Garret at Xoogler, the ex-Googler blog, surprising even naive’ me who thought his request for more ex-Googlers would fall on deaf ears.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, here comes a tag sale tale. From the always credible PR Web, comes this gem of a press release.

Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research has an article about the Xbox 360′s Media Center capabilities, and declares that, "[m]ost consumers simply will either lack the technology or skills to make this thing connect properly".

TDavid wins the “come up with a cool new word of the week” award for noticing “accidense.”…