Once an old iPod story on kottke.org got Dugg, visitors streamed to the story; then Slashdot picked up the story and the fun really began.

Okay, since I’m apparently in “2006 doom and gloom” mode here’s another observation that I can re-brand as a 2006 prediction.

Another day, another startup splashes online. All of the Silicon Valley insiders and the beautiful people on Memeorandum have been writing about Wink.com today, so we’ll add our two cents from the heart of the Bluegrass as well.

The wildly popular tech site, where stories get approved or dumped based on the views of the userbase, plans to branch out into other categories and formats.

CNET News: A major U.K. retail store and three of the largest PC vendors worldwide still have no plans to sell the version of Microsoft Windows that does not contain its media player, five months after the version was released.

As reported in several sources Oracle has acquired Innobase Oy for an undisclosed sum of money.

Companies have a mission statement and most of them have a philosophy on how they and their business approach the world. Google is no different in that respect. They’ve had both those in place for some years now but sometimes, companies must adapt statements to suit necessary changes. Google is also no different there either.

The DayPass, offered by Slashdot’s parent Open Source Technology Group, will give users the chance to see new stories and content first.

Arfa Karim Randhawa has been getting a lot of press lately as Microsoft’s youngest Certified Professional at just ten years of age.

I just thought it was cool that Findory, still the only news site I find worth visiting, got a cool mention on Slashdot.

Google’s “Summer of Code” has been such a popular program that Google has been forced to double the funding for the program to accept 400 students, reports Slashdot.

Every so often, even a big guy gets knocked down. Such is the case with Google’s newest tool for webmasters, at least temporarily.

Henk Van Ess has started off a new blog, Search Bistro, with a scoop he claims to have found: Google’s evaluation labs.

Back when Microsoft’s stock was booming, and lots of employees where cashing in stock options for megabucks, Microsoft was minting millionaires daily.

An Apple employee (at least he claims to be an Apple employee) is over on Slashdot saying some interesting things…

I’ve been asked to restart “Team 99.” What was that? Well, Longhorn got its name from the bar that’s between Whistler and Blackcomb up in British Columbia.

Alan Coopersmith, who works at Sun Microsystems, blogs about how Microsoft’s blogs are changing his opinion of his competitor …

According to Microsoft Watch, Mark Lucovsky, one of Microsoft’s key Windows architects, has defected to Google.

BusinessWeek is running a piece on Slashdot’s diminishing “slashdot effect” – citing analysts and site owners that are saying a link from the grandfather tech site no longer means what it once did to the sites it links to.

The Slashdot folks are reporting on a recent Amazon A9 patent for personal search which allows for …

According to Wikimedia, Google has made a proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects.