Google Celebrates India’s 60th

Time zones aside, India achieved its independence exactly 60 years ago, and the country is now in the midst of numerous celebrations.  So is Google, for that matter; Orkut, YouTube, and various branches of the central company have all given their congratulations to India.

Oodle Shakes Its BandTracker

Online classifieds site Oodle has launched a concert listings service called BandTracker out of beta. If a favorite band plays near you, BandTracker will let you know.

Wikiscanner Shows Whodunnit

If you want anonymity online, you might as well just turn off the computer. Not only is not happening, but it's getting easier to track things. In this case, it's used for good, but like most purer things, it's ripe for some corruption.

Gloob Fights The Glob

They may not have meant for the association, but globs, lube, gunk and goo came to mind, which, if you stretch the metaphor, seem to be the yin to Gloob.tv's yang. The operators (well, spin-meisters) of the site assert that searching for video on YouTube "doesn't have to be like digging through a trash heap…"