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Snapster. Best original idea I’ve heard in quite a while. (Buy music, go public, share assets among shareholders)

Maybe corporate elephants can dance. Can dead horses?

I’ve taken my longest break from this blog. Three reasons: work has been good, Age of Empires has been exciting, and the Web has become boring. But having heard from so many of you (thanks!), I’m going to continue the blog a bit. But I’m thinking of a new format, in the meantime. So please bear with infrequent posts till I get there.

The end of error-message advertising. Bonzi has been ordered by the courts to stop advertising popups that look like Windows error messages. I’ve been conned a few times by these too.

The Code Book by Simon Singh is the last book I read. It’s also the only non-fiction I managed to finish in two years.

Microsoft iLoo. Yes, it’s what you think it is. No, it’s not a hoax, though at one point, Microsoft itself thought it was.

Now you can pay for railway tickets online.

Scope is an interesting new Microsoft technology. It lets you see your e-mail, tasks, calendar and alerts on a circular panel. The items are positioned by priority around the circle (centre is more important than periphery), and the shape of the item (circle, star, etc) determines whom it’s from (work, family, only to me or to other people also, etc.) See their demo to get a better idea on how it works.

The 591 spellings of Britney Spears on Google searches. What’s also interesting is to read the sites that have linked to the mis-spellings.

Google is fiddling around with algorithms to make PageRank 5 times faster. Wonder why they want to do it. The article mentions something about personalised search engines, but I don’t quite get it.