The 1954 vision of a 2004 home PC. What will the home computer of 2054 look like? Do scientists make good visionaries?

Search engine, LookSmart, just bought a service called Furl.

Google News does not carry stories that would be considered contentious by Chinese authorities!

Meet Kalpen Modi (a.k.a. Kal Penn).

Tow, tow, tow your car
Gently down the road
Tow it tow it tow it
To the tire store

-Rishi Krishnamurthy, 3.5 years

[you will remember his debut poem- stones, stones, I need bones]

My student- Matthew Carmean- produces an unofficial Starbucks commercial.

Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi.

Electoral Vote Predictor. Neat application.

Google, circa 1960.

Blogger's invitation process is terrible.  I have tried using it with limited success.  It especially does not work well if you have a Hotmail a/c.  The official help page admits this.  I am currently trying to persuade Blogger that their invitation process is BROKEN.  They are still in denial, I think.  I thought all Google's technology was supposed to work reliably.  Well, this does not.  It is really a shame. 

Most wanted Gmail features. What an easy way to do market research!

Meet Jimmy Wales- the man who created WikiPedia.

An academic conference asks- "Does marketing need reform?".

Heard of Googles.com? It is a kid's site, folks. Why didn't Google buy this domain out in the early days?

A student- Frederic Ingold- pointed me to Ujiko. It is excellent. The most interesting feature is this. If on visit 1, you click on a link that was ranked 5th, that particular link will show up as # 1 on your next visit.

Yahoo has a research lab? Really?

My class blog is # 2 if you search for "search & the web" on Google.

Mozilla Firefox is better!

My class blog has taken off.

A student referred to hyperlinks as hydrolinks in a quiz yesterday!