US Thanksgiving Tech Buzz - November 23, 2007

"I'm feeling lucky button" costs Google $110 million per year: as a matter of fact, it actually represents one percent of the total searches.

Digg the president candidates: Track them, Digg them and Vote for them.

Facebook allow users to vote for news feed: Digg-alike?

Secret behind successful viral video: No, it is more than just spamming

Sunday Tech Buzz - July 22, 2007

Facebook's Fake Revenues: If Facebook goes public, they would have to disclose all their revenues (which probably is not a good idea...)

17 years old spammer pulled in 15k a week: He is retired from spamming and going to publish a book.

Samsung becomes the #2 cell phone maker: Motorola lost the #2 spot and expected to turn a loss year.

Google's cookies expire in two years: The default setting was 38 years...

Happy iPhone Owners: 90% iPhone owners are very satisfied.

MySpace blocks out the letter "i" and replaced by "..": Th..s ..s r..d..culous.

Firefox has 30% in web browsers population in Europe: Watch out IE.

Wednesday Tech Buzz - July 11, 2007

Apple bought iPhone.com: Apple finally bought the domain from the previous owner for $1 million.

eBay's Kijiji competes with Craigslist: Interestingly enough, the only part of Craigslist that isn't under Craig Newmark's ownership belongs to eBay.

eBay and Yahoo get together and build a toolbar: On another note, Mozilla and eBay just launched a new addon.

Access Pay Sites for Free: Disguise as a GoogleBot?

Tuesday Tech Buzz - June 19, 2007

Google ranks lowest for privacy protection practices: People will just continue using it until it hits us one day.

In search of the Fake Steve Jobs: More hints on who is the Fake Steve Jobs.

comScore Widget Matrix: We need to track these Web2.0 hotcakes.

How to take yourself out of Google Map: Need a photoID and a sworn statement.

Mobile YouTube: Mini mobile YouTube launched, "YouTube To GO".

Semel out, Yang in at Yahoo: Yahoo co-founder take over as CEO. Can he do something for Yahoo like Steve Job for the Apple?

Hottest Web Office Suite: Google, MSN Live, Zoho, ThinkFree...

Blogger in Draft: Blogger launched its new lab to test out new features.

Tuesday Tech Buzz - June 5, 2007

Digg Launches a Facebook Application: This Facebook widget displays the last five stories that you’ve dugg.

Person Of The Web: Yahoo may feature your blog if you visited their page using your MyBlogLog profile.

Crazy Video Games Speed Runs: Featured videos showing how some gamers finished a game 90% faster than other people...

Track Your Digg Comments: Instead of tracking your dugg stories, this useful web app helps track how many diggs your comments get.

Social Poster: Helps submit stories to all social sites at once. It is very helpful if you are a social bookmarker that like to submit stories to multiple bookmark sites.

Ask 2.0: The search engine Ask has redesigned their site to make it more Web2.0 look able.

iPhone release date - June 29th: $600 with 2 years contract ... no wonder people are keeping their cell phone longer.

Latest Google and Microsoft Maps: People have been crazy about the new Google Maps. How about the new Microsoft Maps 3D?

Tuesday Tech Buzz - May 29th, 2007

Gmail Users, Younger, Richer than Yahoo Mail & Hotmail users: Gmail has better demographic for email spammers.

Top 10 Dying Computer Skills: To be honest, I have only heard of two of them...

20th Century Fox making The Sims Movie: The movie will feature real life actors instead of animation. Hmm... what is the point of making the movie with "real" actors?

How to avoid typing in your Google password in Facebook: Yes, I fell for that when I sign up Linkedin and Facebook...

Technorati Closed the Door on the Top 100 Favorite Blogs: The site is not showing how many fans a blog has anymore.

Tagging in MyBlogLog: Now you can tag blogs and people in MBL. Is people going to start spam tagging?

YouTube Testing New Players: It looks much better than the old one.

Most Public Person in the World: You can call him the "Visible Man". He shares his current live location, credit card receipts, pictures of all his travels, his breakfast online...

Mike Arrington's Domain Trading Past: Techcrunch's guru was a misspelled domains trading master.

Tuesday Tech Buzz - May 22, 2007

Microsoft Pipes: Microsoft's version of Yahoo Pipes.

Google to target ISPs with Google Apps pack: When was the last time you actually install the stuff that came with the ISP packages?

Google Shuts Down Google Arbitrage: If they paid $0.10 per click on the traffic they sent and made $0.25 per click with AdSense, they made $0.15.

Flickr Has an “e” in it: "Misspelled" domains of popular Web2.0 sites for sale.

Google Online Security Blog: Google launched another blog...

Top 7 Lists Tops Digg: The Top 7 Lists has the best chance to be popular in Digg.

China to back down from "real name" blog rules: How many people use their real name in their blogs?

MySpace Gets 80% of Social Network Visits: As much as people hate it, MySpace is still the giant in social network. How long it takes for someone to overtake that?

Friday Tech Buzz - May 18, 2007

Domain sells for 9.5M: Largest publicly reported all-cash domain sale ever.

Google's New Design: Lots of stuff added to the search interface. Do you like them?

Mashable giving out social networks beta invites: Check out Mashable if you want to check out some new web2.0 social sites.

How Google handles Malware: A historical overview by Matt Cutts.

Cutts talks about Paid Links: You have to read this if you buy/sell paid links.

Google patenting Game Ads that evaluates user action: Come on, stop throwing ads to me please :)

Skype entering the online game VOIP competition: Trying to take on Teamspeak and Vent? As good as it is, it is kinda too late ...

WordPress2.2 released: WP users need to upgrade again...

Yahoo to give MyBlogLog an upgrade: Make it more Yahoo?

Top 20 Social Bookmarking Sites: I'm using the top 5.

Microsoft giving out 500MB online storage: You read it right ... it is 500MB.

Thursday Tech Buzz - May 10, 2007

Pearl Crescent Page Saver: This FireFox plugin allows you to take full page screen shot.

Digg's Founder Starting Another Company: Kevin Rose is working on a new IM tool (Twitter killer?) in his new company, he actually have talked about this idea back in 2005.

Google PageRank Datacenter Watch: You can find out the Page Rank of your sites from different Google datacenters. [via Blog-Op]

Joost Gets More Funding: $45M from different VC around the Globe. As Steve mentioned in his post, lots of good content possibly coming.

Secrets Behind Google Sandbox: Look behind the Sandbox from their Patent.

New Google Analytics: Google released a new version of Analytics.

PhotoShop CS3 Review: Ken wrote a nice review on the latest release of CS3. While you were there, check out his review on MathPoints too!

Friday Tech Buzz - May 4, 2007

Comic Strips Feed: Follow your comic via RSS feed.

Google send out superman cape to frustrated user: Do you think they would send it to Canada too?

Hidden Text on the VW site: It is a No No for Google, nice catch by Barry... I wondered if they hired the same people that done SEO for BMW before :)

Microsoft May Acquire Yahoo: Talking about an upward $50 Billion deal.

NBA Playoff Video Download on NBA.com: Not for free though...

Cingular and Verizon don't welcome links: Okay, I won't link to them then. Google, Yahoo, MSN should take them out of index before they get into trouble... Hurry!

Twitter + MyBlogLog = Crazy Delicious: Twitter is getting lots of love and hate lately. MBL+Twitter is going to be cool.

Digg, HD DVD key, Overflow

Forget about the take down of top Digg user list, this is definitely the most incredible thing that ever happened in Digg.

It looks like Digg censored some sensitive stories that contain HD DVD encryption key, which their CEO explained it may get them into trouble against the intellectual property law...
but the Digg mob is not giving in and fight back with the power of people.

All the stories that made it to the front page are related to this topic and lots of other HD DVD keys stories floating around as well.

I am sure Digg and the crowd would remember the power of social media.

*Update*

Kevin Rose made it clear they WON'T delete anymore stories contain the code! [via Digg Blog]
Yes, Digg is compromising with the crowd!

Related links:
Digg Shutdown
Blogger: Digg Banned me for Typing a Number
32 Digits Driving Digg Crazy
Mob Takes Over at Digg, Widespread User Revolt
Scenes from the Digg Implosion

Tech Buzz - April 29, 2007

Rejuvenate Your Old Links: Did you know that incoming links to your blog are no longer counted by Technorati after 6 months?

Google is Watching: Google is tracking any site you visit whether you searched for it or not.

7 Cool Applications Built on the Digg API: These are a couple of cool things that were built on the Digg API.

Google Maps Worlds of Warcraft: Using the Google Map API, we can map the real world, but potentially mapping the virtual world like Worlds of Warcraft and 2nd Life.

Niche Social Media Sites: There are big name social media like Digg, Reddit, Netscape, but there are lots of niche social media sites out there too. Use them wisely to send traffic to your own site...

The Definitive Guide to Google PageRank: What you need to know about Google PageRank.

Web2.0 Tech Buzz - April 25, 2007

Why Digg is more popular than Delicious? A look at the users, traffic, popularity of both sites.

America's top 10 bloggiest neighborhood: I don't see any big name blogger came from these areas though.

6 Degrees of Computer Science: The relationships between computer science, computer engineering, math/physics ...

CSS Slicing Guide: Turn a Photoshop template into a fully sliced, coded and XHTML and CSS valid web page.

The Expansion of Social Networks: Finding the "sweet spot" in growing the user base and revenue for social networking sites.

Fastest Internet Speed Record: A group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has broken Internet speed records (faster download speed).

80% of all Blogs Contain "Offensive" Content: Maybe that's the main reason why blogs getting so popular!

Friday Tech Buzz - April 20, 2007

World's Longest Tunnel to Be Built From Russia to Alaska: So, can we take a train from North America to Asia when it is finished?

eBay acquires StumpleUpon: Is it their first step to web2.0? Probably not ...

MySpace launched MySpace News: Let's see if the MySpace users going to bite this time.

Get Relevant Google Ads on your Blog: Enhance the Google ads that appeared on your blog.

Most Powerful Sites on Digg: Analyzing which domain names hit the homepage most often (from Mar 14 - Apr 14). My tips- submit the stories from these sites to increase your chance hitting the front page.

The Sorry Page of the Internet Giants: Who has the best Server Error page?

Google acquired Performics in the DoubleClick Deal: Performics is one of the largest SEO company in the world. Conflict of interests? Yes ... and I really want to see how it turns out. Bottom line, Google is making more money out of this.

Black Friday Tech Buzz - April 13, 2007

Canada's Mobile Data Access Rate: Canada rank among the 3rd world countries. It is not surprising though, when you take a look at how much the carriers are charging people.

The Rise of Facebook: An interview of Facebook's CEO/founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Hottest Startup: Again, Facebook ranked #1 for the latest internet startup...

Top 10 Firefox extensions to "avoid": We always hear the top 10 to get, what about the top 10 to avoid?

China's Strategy to the Game Addicts: Yep, the government censors the Internet and they are looking to monitor online gaming too.

Create your Twin with MyCyberTwin: Train your virtual self to chat with your friends!

ESPN Fantasy Baseball "Lost" Season

With only a week in the baseball season, ESPN already declared it is a lost season for their fantasy baseball game. ESPN has a glitch in their system that doesn't allow the users to make roster moves in their lineup in the first week.

ESPN said it will refund fees to paying fantasy baseball customers because its online service hasn't allowed team owners to change their rosters. The network, which sells a fantasy baseball product on its website for about $30 and also has a free version, said it expects the computer malfunction will be repaired today.

There are about 15 million fans play fantasy sports game with the majority of them using Yahoo. Baseball is the most popular with half of the fans playing it worldwide. It looks like it is the least ESPN could do to refund the money to their users and call it a lost season.

Easter Sunday Tech Buzz - April 8, 2007

Technorati Gets New Widgets: Three new widgets, top searches, top tags and the authority blogs widgets.

My Google Maps: Google Maps added a new feature known as My Maps which allows users to tag, save, share a map.

MySpace Worth $2.71 Billion: But Making $271 million/year?

Cool Mini Icons: Trade/download high quality icons.

MyBlogLog testing 20 daily messages limit: MBL testing the new daily messages sent limit in an effort to fight spam.

Tuesday Tech Buzz - April 3, 2007

Sneaky way to get cheap links: You may not aware of the "sponsor link" in a widget.

All April Fools pranks on the Internet: A nice wrap up of all the internet April Fools pranks from 2004 to 2007.

Google Goes Back to Pre-Katrina Maps: Google replaced post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery with pictures taken before the storm, fueling suspicions of a conspiracy.

Google Responds to Yahoo by Increasing Gmail Storage to Infinity Plus One: Google to Yahoo, "I hate you to infinity plus one!"

April Fool's Tech Buzz - April 1, 2007

Check Your Website Design In Different Browsers: Zigire mentioned a free tool "Browsershots " that can make screen shots of your web design in different browsers.

Thinking about Stripe Generator: Seth Godin's view on the Stripe Generator. I am pretty sure you have seen the Stripe Generator on Digg or Stumbled on it. If not, it is here.

Microsoft Error Message: "This Operation Has Completed Successfully".

Twitter is Hot: David shows that Twitter is catching Digg on the buzzometer. Blogpulse is a very neat tool by the way.

Pac-Xon: A Flash game that I stumbled on.

GTA IV Trailer Released: The much hyped video game Grand Theft Auto IV's trailer is released. Lots of expectations to the fourth installment of this series. I don't think people would be disappointed.

Wednesday Tech Buzz - March 28, 2007

Google test Pay-Per-Action: Google testing a new pricing model, Pay-per-action. It would for sure attract more advertisers using Adwords.

Social Networking Visits Increase 11.5 Percent From January To February: iMeem and Bebo are the Fastest Movers.

Yahoo Unlimited Email Storage: Yahoo is trying to get ahead of Google in the Email game.

Still space for one more social network profile?: 45% social networkers say they would be willing to participate in at least four social networks and 7% would join 10 or more.

Google domains predict the future: A list of all the domains Google owns and the interesting things behind them.

Get Your Picture On The Cover of the Wired Magazine: You can actually get your face on the cover of WIRED. It is a WIRED magazine promotion.