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Obvious Corp. Buying Odeo

Evan Williams and other Odeo employees buying control of Odeo back from their VCs is definitely an interesting piece of news because it's not that common, and it says something interesting about what some companies are experiencing right now.

Google Named 3rd Most Valuable Tech Company

Google's moving up in the world, and it just passed IBM. The search engine giant now holds the title of "world's third most valuable technology company," and is only about $2.5 billion behind Cisco. Microsoft is still the far-and-away leader of the pack, with a market capitalization of $279 billion (compared to Google's $145 billion).

Use Google As a Verb, You Must Get Spanked

Google's stepping-up its efforts to stop people from using "google" as a verb. They've posted a correct useage guide on the official Google blog, in an attempt to gently persuade people to not use Google incorrectly.

The Day I’ll Yahoo: x 100,000,000 other users

Jeremy Z. points to Google's feather-ruffling "here we go again protecting our trademark" post, and reaction to it that includes one guy telling Google to "shove its lexographical advice up your..."

Adding Social Bookmark Links to ASP.NET Pages

Social bookmarking is often thought of as being something used only on blogs. That's probably because you only see them on blogs, when they in fact could be used at most other types of websites as well.