Probably an April Fool’s joke, but when I went to Google insider, Matt Cutts, blog tonight I found this:

It looks good though. Almost got me.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

pingpong_fiasco is making this prediction:
“I call that Google will surpass Websters and the OED as the de facto standard for correct spelling.”

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-I agree with this. I already use Google for all my spelling and thesaurus needs. Good solid call.

Just received this spam in the morn.

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Check this out. Someone at the PR firm for TIME Magazine decided to use some inside info to make a little money. Yes they were betting/predicting who would be TIME magazine’s person of the year. The people who made these bets are obviously rookies to placing bets when the bookie is at a disadvantage. Lets see where they went wrong. Maximum allowable bet?! Are you kidding me. If you ever wanted to draw suspicion to yourselves, congratulations.

They could’ve bet half that and done it 3 or 4 times more. It would not have triggered the alerts that a max bet would. Hey next time you PR firms want to use inside information to make money off of offshore sportsbooks ask for some obvious advice. Geez. You guys could’ve been raking it in, laughing all the way to the copy machine. But no, you had to blow it. How about spreading your bet across multiple sportsbooks? Well maybe you did that. I hope so. Its called diversification.

Note: I do not bet on sports. Anymore. Haven’t in years. 8 years precisely. Long before sports wagering was common online.

Sportsbook.com, the world’s largest online sportsbook, has been forced to halt wagering on Time Magazine’s Person of the Year and Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year due to suspicious betting activity. Upon further investigation by Sportsbook.com, the first and only sportsbook to offer odds on the annual designations, it appears employees of a public relations agency linked to Time Warner have used inside information to place the maximum allowable bet on this year’s winners.

On the afternoon of Friday, December 2, a number of suspicious wagers, originating primarily from New York and New Jersey, were posted on Mother Nature to be named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2005. These wagers have been traced back to e-mail addresses of a New York-based PR agency that lists Time Warner as one of its clients.

This decision followed on the heels of similarly suspicious betting activity on the 2005 recipient of Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year. Since the odds were posted on the annual designation several weeks ago, numerous wagers from the same sources for the maximum allowable bet were placed on New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. Later in the evening of December 2, a leak emerged that Tom Brady would, in fact, be this year’s
winner.

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–Brilliant.

Google and San Francisco sitting in a tree. K I SS I NG. First comes love, then comes marriage, then Wi Fi access all over the Bay Area.

Google, your love for San Francisco is undeniable.

It seems like a nice pro-bono/marketing thing, but why not do this in place where Google is not the most used brand already? Say, California, Missouri, ok I kid, but seriously, how about another joint?

Should Google create a Wi-Fi network in San Francisco or where you live instead?

What is the $100 Laptop, really?
The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen laptop that will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data. These rugged laptops will be WiFi- and cell phone-enabled, and have USB ports galore. Its current specifications are: 500MHz, 1GB, 1 Megapixel.

I predict third world wi-fi hackers…

$100 Laptop

Today China announced something that pretty much went against all things Google (including me and the rest of computer nerds everywhere). Internet censorship.

China set new regulations on Internet news content on Sunday, widening a campaign of controls it has imposed on other Web sites, such as discussion groups.

“The state bans the spreading of any news with content that is against national security and public interest,” the official Xinhua news agency said in announcing the new rules, which took effect immediately.

The news agency did not detail the rules, but said Internet news sites must “be directed toward serving the people and socialism and insist on correct guidance of public opinion for maintaining national and public interests.”

Established news media needed permission to run a news Web site, it said. New operators had to register themselves with government information offices.

China has a dedicated band of cyber police who patrol the Internet with the aim of regulating content. Postings that criticize the government or address sensitive topics are quickly removed.

China Censorship

What does this mean to you? The rest of the world? Are you worried the people of China won’t get to view this post on ICalledIt.com?

Microsoft Corp. said Friday that the next version of its Windows operating system will have built-in support for Internet data feeds, an increasingly popular way to get news and other information channeled straight to a computer.

RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, hasn’t broken into widespread use yet, but the world’s largest software maker believes it will become a mainstay.

“We really believe that RSS is key to how people will be using the Internet in the future,” said Megan Kidd, a Windows product manager.

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-Microsoft is really on the ball with this one. I mean right out in front of the curve. I heard the makers of Firefox were said to have responded with a “yawn”.

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I never noticed this before and Csara failed to mention to me that she suggested Subway should add shredded carrots to their toppings list on 01-30-2003.

Well guess what, someone was listening. Subway added shredded carrots between 2003 and 2005. We failed to notice this correlation before.

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