Google is usually on the cutting edge, or at least near it. The company’s latest “innovations” are intentionally out of date, though. Google Earth will now feature historical maps dating back as far as the 17th century.

Quintura updated their website to allow you to use their keyword research tool right from there home page, without needing to download any software.

Here’s a useful app for any content publishers and even you geobloggers out there… enter HubDog

Internet Explorer 7 has been primed for release through Microsoft’s Automatic Updates, while the Mozilla Foundation unveiled Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 for their users.

Versions 1.5.0.7 of the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client have been appearing on user PCs as Mozilla tweaks a few security issues with both products.

One website has collected the best of comments by Google engineer Matt Cutts into a list of 21 great tips from the best known engineer from the Googleplex who doesn’t own a jumbo jet.

The Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (wow! spiffy name!) is now available for download. Just go to this page.

The French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT) has reported a pair of vulnerabilities in Webmin and Usermin that could be exploited by remote attackers.

Webmaster fans of Yahoo’s Site Explorer will enjoy the service’s biggest update since December 2005, as Yahoo responds to feedback and requests.

The Summer of Code continues at Google, which presented a midterm report on the state of the project during the recently-held OSCON 2006.

Stylus Studio is offering a free full demo of its newly launched set of enterprise XML tools until July 14. The company says Stylus Studio 2006 Release 3 XML Enterprise Edition has enhanced support for data processing components for XQuery, EDI, XSL: FO and XSLT.

The developers of this open source project have just released a new CD and flyer…

Some news, hot off the presses on the Haystack front.

A bunch of news on the Haystack front. In addition to moving to a new infrastructure provider, have put in a load of new capabilities.

Word on the street has it that Google has added loads of new data to the offerings available for viewing via Google Earth.

A recent update to the Keyword Tool in AdWords allows advertisers to view additional information about keywords the client may wish to select for a campaign.

Rob Shanks (President, GlobeXplorer) maintains a blog to provide an insight into his company’s mapping and online imagery services.

The MyWeb Development Team fills us in on some recent updates to My Web 2.0.

Microsoft has announced seven patches coming next week’s Patch Tuesday, according to Bink.

The Yahoo My Web 2.0 team delivered several functionality updates and performance tweaks to its bookmark sharing site.

The user-generated content republic has implemented three small changes to Digg’s functionality for its devoted user base.