Online Oddities: Fact or Fiction Edition

W's AOL search records, orangutan dating site, Firefox crop circles, and Microsoft on LSD. Chalk these incongruent pairings up for what makes this week in August 2006, the best online week ever.

Webtop – The Future of Computing

A number of people have thrown around the word "webtop" - but in doing so, I think they miss what the future of the web might have in store for us.

YouTube Breaks Down, Breaks Out

A service outage of several hours represented some growing pains for the YouTube video sharing service, which has become so popular that it is now part of the comScore Media Metrix Top 50.