Google Helps Kids Get Messages to Next President

Google (specifically Google Docs) has teamed up with the National Writing Project to sponsor a program that lets students around the U.S. write letters to the presidential candidates in a program appropriately titled: Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future.

Social Networking Use Popular At Work

The most popular sites viewed by employees in the United States and United Kingdom while at work include Web 2.0 destinations that feature video, third party applications, and social networking and news sites, according to a new survey from Internet security firm 8e6 Technologies.

Google Expands Another API

As mentioned previously, Google is spending a lot of time "in the clouds" so to sepak. They've been emphasizing cloud computing a lot lately, even going so far as to make a 99.9% guarantee with regarding to up-time for Google Apps.

Rumor Has Yahoo Losing Two More Execs

Jerry Yang's most recent pep talk must be wearing off.  There's word that two more Yahoo execs will be quitting his company this week, and neither of them is supposed to be the kind of person who would have been hit by layoffs, anyway.

Amazon To Reduce Packaging Materials

Amazon.com announced Monday an initiative to reduce the amount of packaging materials some of its products are shipped in with the idea to make them easier for customers to open and to be better for the environment.