Six time best selling author, Seth Godin speaks to Google as part of their Authors@Google series.

Google’s Book Search project got major kudos from University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman speaking from within “the lion’s den” also known as the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The AAP launched a lawsuit against Google in October 2005 alleging copyright infringement as a result of the search company’s massive book digitization project.

The new photocasting feature in Apple’s iPhoto doesn’t comply with RSS standards, a shortcoming the RSS community has pointed out vociferously.

Some of Unveil Technologies’ intellectual property pertaining to speech recognition has been purchased by Microsoft.

The boundaries of free speech are oft debated and rarely decided conclusively. The issue with Traffic-Power is no different. The search-marketing firm has had some troubles recently. The company is going after two websites in a high stakes free speech issue they may help define and determine the future of what people can say on the Internet.

As it is imperative that this particular brand of document not fall into the hands of the enemy, it will self-destruct in 3 minutes. So read fast, and let no one know you received it via Reporters Without Borders.

Around the world, those who had quietly smoldered for fear of offending the powers that be have found a voice in blogs. For many, the blogosphere has become an anonymous cry to the masses. For the brave, not so anonymous, but equally as scathing, sounding boards are giving them words they hadn’t dared utter in public.

The Blog Herald doesn’t get what I was trying to say: What about free speech Scoble …

The product has been built on Windows and .Net; a future version of Exchange will be speech enabled.

Microsoft has released some pretty pictures as part of its Windows Vista virtual press kit. Check em out (and click to enlarge)…

While I have been attending the OMMA West Conference, I was able to go see John Battelle’s keynote speech.

We need to position blogs correctly, now more than ever, as businesses realize their potential….

Richard Silverstein had a commenter leave some hate speech on his blog and he’s writing about what happened when he tried to get his blog provider to remove it.

Their goal is to better enable contact centers to do their work without a live customer service representative in the mix.

Pithy commentary in Business Week on the fall from grace of CNN news head Eason Jordan over his remarks that US troops target journalists in Iraq …

Password resets are the second most common reason workers call help desks, accounting for about one in four help desk requests, according to the Gartner Group, an IT research company.

Speech Search, available in pre-beta stages at Google Labs, is an attempt to give users the ability to search Google through a voice interface. Speech Search gives users who are not at a computer the ability to search for driving directions, restaurant information, and even the aisle location of an item in your local supermarket.

At this morning’s Search Engine Strategies session, Google’s Craig Silverstein shared his vision of the future of search.

Danny Sullivan discussed his “Invisible Tabs” theory during his keynote speech at the Search Engine Strategies conference. Google’s recent release of their book search lends credibility to this theory, and points in the direction Google’s heading.

For most people, public speaking is a challenge, but even once you’ve mastered the techniques, and the part about just getting up there, you’re work isn’t done.

Writing good web content is a lot like planning a big dinner party. You’re looking forward to having lots of guests, but you’re not sure about when they’ll arrive or how hungry they’ll be. You know Deborah will only nibble on the salad, Laura will snack on the chicken, and Dan will cheerfully devour everything you serve. As an experienced party planner, you’ll accommodate your guests’ diverse appetites. A good web writer does the same thing – accommodates the appetites of all content-hungry visitors by providing different amounts of content for different users.