Top Items:
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE PURCHASES ADDING "HIGH QUALITY" MERCHANTS — Another scoop from a quality tipster: Google sent out a notice to testers recently that they are holding a confidential beta of a system to make purchases from "high-quality merchants" using their Google Accounts.
RELATED ITEMS:
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Welcome to Google Checkout, that will be $3.14 — The first time I looked up the domain "GDrive.com" it appeared that someone other than Google had it registered. A trip down memory lane takes us to my very first article that describes how I determined GDrive.com is in fact owned by Google, despite what it looks like on the surface.
Sara Ivry / New York Times:
Squabble Over Name Ruffles a Web Utopia — Web 2.0, a term that has come to represent the latest incarnation of the Internet, a place where Web sites are more dynamic and interactive, has a certain Internet utopianism at its heart. But that image took a hit last week when a dispute broke out over who was allowed to use the term.
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End — The World Wide Web is the most democratic mass medium there has ever been. Freedom of the press, as the saying goes, belongs only to those who own one. Radio and television are controlled by those rich enough to buy a broadcast license.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Software to Look for Experts Among Your Friends — PALO ALTO, Calif., May 27 — For anyone who has hesitated before making a purchase on a Web site, uncertain which brand is preferable, Tacit Software is preparing to introduce an online service that will make it simple to pick the brains …
maxconsole.net:
STICKY: Undiluted Platinum - World's First PSP Modchip - Install Pic & Features List! — Just a few short days ago, we broke the news to the world of a World's First PSP Modchip called Undiluted Platinum. Of course there were skeptics out there, but we are now delighted to share …
Discussion:
Kotaku
RELATED ITEMS:
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Big Web Site Gives Lift to a Littler One — A reader who trolls around on The New York Observer Web site for a while may spot something unusual: a green-and-white box of headlines with links to news and opinion articles, all crowded under the title "Huff Post."
Tony Glover / thebusinessonline.com:
Threat to traditional broadcasters — GOOGLE is planning a new version of its search engine - designed for TV screens - that the company's co-founder and its chief executive believe will rival traditional broadcasting. — Chief executive Eric Schmidt told The Business …
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Online Memorials Bring Strangers and Friends Together in Community of Grief — Days after his wife's death from inflammatory breast cancer in 2004, Michael Bloomer set up a Web page memorial. An old co-worker from Florida signed Kim Bloomer's online guest book. So did a high school classmate in Michigan.
Discussion:
IP Democracy
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
All Good Things... All good things come to an end. Or to a long pause, or to a ride off into the sunset, or to at least a substantial hibernation (preferably on a holiday weekend, to make the least amount of noise). — I don't often talk or write to other people about what I do here.
Discussion:
Todd Bishop's Microsoft …
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
From a Small Stream, a Gusher of Movie Facts — THE closest that Col Needham gets to corporate life is the Dilbert calendar in his neat office — a converted bedroom in a quaint house in the ancient village of Stoke Gifford, a suburb of Bristol, the harbor city that is 90 minutes west of London by train.
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
Quick Indications of Low Quality Search Spam — As more and more of the web becomes spam (as a total % of the web) engines are going to get more selective about what they let in their indexes and people are going to be more selective about what they are willing to link at.
Ogle Earth:
Pin in the map — In the mapping simplicity stakes, there is a new player: Pin in the map, a Google Maps API-based web app announced with a press release by UK developers Eden Development. — Pin in the map is nothing less (or more) than one-click placemarking, to which you can add text …
Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
Joystiq poll: Will the PS3 price affect your console combo? — Remember back in January when we asked you about your preferred console combo plan? We were operating under two assumptions then: that Nintendo's strategy involved being the second console of choice; and that the PS3 and Xbox 360 would be evenly priced.
Discussion:
Gadgetophile
Associated Press:
Just Give Me a Simple Phone — OVERLAND PARK, Kansas — Nathan Bales represents a troubling trend for cellular phone carriers. The Kansas City-area countertop installer recently traded in a number of feature-laden phones for a stripped-down model. He said he didn't like using them to surf the internet …
