In my personal blog's web stats, I've been consistently (for the last month and a half) getting five times as much drop-in traffic from MSN Live search users than from Google. Why do you suppose that is? That's completely up-side-down from how it's ever been in my experience.

I saw a note on FriendFeed from Duncan Riley earlier today indicating he'd posted on OmniDrive, the back-up solutions company that's had an uncertain future for quite some time. Duncan and Nik Cubrilovic, both of which who have history at TechCrunch, also have history with each other. I know exactly what it's like to have piss-poor relations with someone in the Web 2.0 world and subsequently blog...

Steve Rubel just twittered an article from today's International Herald Tribune entitled "Google shows vulnerability in Advertising." It's almost a completely ridiculous article, but for the small weaknesses that Google does have in its ad platform. Of course, because the Time Magazine, Digg and Facebook havedecided to go with other ad partners other than Google, it isn't necessarily spelling the...

Hey Rizzn-ites, Have you ever played 20 Questions with a computer or small orb? If so, you know that computers and technology, are very capable of predicting what we'll say and what we're thinking. How does it do it? Greg Blonder, who we interviewed on the show about a month ago, posted on Internet Evolution today not asking how it does it, but noting how it doesn't, and posing a work-a-round for...

Hey Rizzn-ites and gPhone Hounds, Last week I picked up a stray bit from a LiveJournaler about there being 30 rumored pre-beta gPhones wandering around in Mountain View California. Blogger Michael Bazeley recounts an experience he had in an Emeryville Apple store several days ago: So I’m standing in the Emeryville Apple store today trying to troubleshoot a problem with a sales rep when a young woman...

Hey Rizzn-ites, I posted a bit yesterday about the NYT piece on the gPhone. The coverage of the NYT analysis has been spun as wrong as it can possibly be, with the grand take-a-way being that there is no gPhone coming. The original article was a bit off in the first place. I actually got an email from Miguel Helft this morning, responding to my analysis of what he said. I'm puzzled that you call...

digg_url = 'http://www.rizzn.com/2007/10/google-jaiku.asp';I just found out via C.C. Chapman on Twitter, but it would appear that Jaiku has been purchased by Google! This from the Jaiku FAQ today: Jaiku is joining Google. While it's too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you'll find interesting...

Hey Rizzn-ites, Well, if you're like me, you woke up this morning with an inbox full of emails and a Google reader that pointed to mostly links to the New York Times article on the gPhone. Instead of tapping out thirty or forty replies to emails on my comment on the story, I'm simply going to post here, and refer all the bozos who wrote me back to this article. You can hear me talk about this today...

Hey Rizzn-ites and gPhone hounds, Just a bit of gPhone news for the weekend, it has been reported by Alex Lewis over at Network World that Google may have released some 'pre-beta gPhones into the wild': Google has reportedly released approximately 30 pre-beta gPhones to current employees for testing. There are a lot of rumors, but if you hang around Mountain View, CA much you may see one in the wild....

I haven't spoken with "Deep Throat" in a couple of days, so I'll have to ask him about this, but I just picked up an unsubstantiated rumor from a student at Rochester Institute of Technology: So apparently Google's Phone really truly for all times for serious is coming, whether one likes it or not. It seems that there are displays at the Googleplex where people (that is, Google employees) can check...