Database of search engine strings

Here’s a handy little site that I stumbled on that has an extensive database of remote strings and operators for search engines of all kinds. Ever want to write a little script that executes an embedded search? Add a search engine to your browser’s search bar?

Technorati Tags: scripting, search

Enterprise 2.0, looking deeper

Socialtext is featured in a new article in the MIT Sloan Management Review. What's interesting about this is that the author looks not only at what the technology is and how it is being implemented, but also considers the implications for the traditional enterprise as unilateral management control breaks down. Ross' blog has a lot [...]

State of the Blogosphere

Technorati's quarterly blog growth numbers are out. From my point of view, it is time to de-emphasize the total number of blogs and the net new blogs, and start putting greater emphasis on a more granular dissection of the existing blogs along with a qualitative analysis. The quality component is difficult because who is anyone [...]

Benkler: The Wealth of Networks

If you know me or have heard me speak you probably realize that I am a huge fan of Yochai Benkler (and Eric von Hippel as the two seem to fit together rather well). Benkler's new book, The Wealth of Networks, is out as a wiki and a downloadable PDF. Of course, if you can afford [...]

France Finance Minister calls critics full of crap

The French Trade Minister Christine Lagarde lashed out at critics of the French labor and political policies, saying: "I don't want the crap," Lagarde said. "It annoys me when France is portrayed as an awkward, backward country. It is not." While reform is needed in the labor market, French commerce is on firm footing and [...]

Microsoft Office Live beta

Microsoft is making their Office Live beta available to anyone, and they are also hosting your domain for free as part of the process.

Akismet

I have been having a lot of problems with comment and trackback spam lately, for whatever reason the things that were getting trapped in wordpress' spam filter were getting through and I was spending up to 45 minutes a day cleaning it up.I installed Automattic's Askismet plugin last night and this morning I didn't have [...]

California Taxes and Apple Moving to Nevada

Apple itself isn't moving to Nevada, but the investment vehicle they just established is based in Reno. Braeburn Capital will benefit from favorable tax treatment in Nevada compared to California. It's interesting that the linked Businessweek article also points to Intel Capital as another example of corporate investment funds, interesting because Intel Capital like the [...]

Echo

Google comes out with a calendar service… the entire blogosphere has something to say about it (apparently).

Greenspan on SarbOx

Never one to act before things get really out of hand, Greenspan now says SarbOx needs reform. FT.com / World / US - Greenspan predicts US governance revamp "I am nevertheless acutely aware and disturbed by the fact that initial public offerings have moved away from the US - and to a large extent have moved [...]

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