Awash in good intentions, Google’s Matt Cutts paved a hellish road for himself by asking people to fill out a spam report for paid links. Matt followed up over the weekend (and while on vacation) with details that may have saved him some initial grief.
SkypePal Finally Makes its Appearance
At the mesh meetup we had at the Charlotte Room tonight, I ran into Jim Courtney of Skype Journal and he said he had just finished posting something interesting about the new Skype beta — and he was right.
Microsoft Finally Helped New Zealand Police
While seeking evidence that a suspect in New Zealand was the member of a burglary ring, authorities in the country tried obtaining details about the man and were rebuffed by Microsoft.
It took a court order for Microsoft to change its tune about not being subject to laws in New Zealand. Police wanted to identify a man who had provided his name, address, and phone number to Microsoft when attempting to purchase a part for a stolen Xbox 360.
Yahoo Finally Launches Project Panama
The in-development advertising system meant to replace Yahoo’s current product arrived as part of the company’s third quarter financial announcements.
Finally, Somebody Ranks Brand Monitoring Services
If there was ever a research report I’d like to get my hands on, it’s this one from Forrester.
Finally! MSN Search Is No More!
After days of typing in “joe”* into the search box atop MSN.com, I finally got Windows Live Search, instead of MSN Search.
Google Base Finally Gets Automat
The Google Base blog announces that you can now advertise your Google Base items in Google AdWords, finally releasing the “Automat” system we saw in a patent filing last November.
Security Is Happening….Finally
I’ve got to resign myself that I’m cursed with longer eyeballs than most. It seems I’m like a B movie psychic when it comes to IT sometimes – I see whats going to happen, but there’s not much I can do about it.
Finally Got Gmail Chat
Google’s Chat in Gmail has been rolling out slowly to everyone, and now that I’ve got it, here are some screenshots and thoughts.
Apple Finally Debuts iTunes Japan
The oft-rumored iTunes Japan has been launched, and with it comes the release of the Rolling Stones back catalog.