Google Addiction reports that Google is building a calendar app.

Frank Barnako quotes Alfred Tolles of Lycos on Technorati as a desirable acquisition target: “This is the kind of company we are looking at, seeing if they are acquisition potentials or whether we have the ability to do the same thing ourselves.” (Via Paid Content) Susan sez: Think this comment will fuel (another) acquisition bubble?

Gary Price has a good write-up of Rollyo, a new tool to organize and narrow searches and provide focused results. More comments from Rex Hammond, Steve Rubel, Library Clips, and founder Dave Pell, among others. Susan sez: There are other roll your own search tools in development, with more launches coming this month. Will be… Continue Reading

AOL UK Study: Brit kids go online at school more than at home (this is so different than the US!) Seattle Business Journal: Merrill Brown advising Curious Office Partners, a new venture incubator funding a Brit RSS company called FeedDigest whose home page says :”With FeedDigest, mix, filter and republish or syndicate feeds to HTML,… Continue Reading

More interesting comments on Web 2.0 and definition of: Richard MacManus (who will be in the Bay area momentarily) likes my post and has good words of his own. Silkworm blog says: “I believe Web 2.0 is like many other things, that are compared to love – you can’t satisfactorily describe it to anyone but… Continue Reading

The conference center T-3 (!) went down this morning, so I am now in a crunchy coffee shop in Estes Park, feeding my digital addictions aka checking email and blogging. Did ya miss me? No, don’t answer that, please.

Proof that blogging, like yoga, is infectious: B.K.S. Iyengar, father of yoga in the West, checks out the Yoga Journal conference blog in our own little blogging room.

Dave Winer says: Web 2.0 is really simple, it’s RSS 2.0, but I would venture to disagree. While RSS is an amazing tool, to me the heart of Web 2.0 is the user. The enduring lesson of all of the social media and emerging technologies is that we’ve created an a la carte, do it… Continue Reading

Tim writes: “In order to preserve the principles of journalism, we must change its practices and form. We must create journalism we can sell. We must commit journalism by any means necessary. [Read: Journalism by Every Means Necessary.] The future of news belongs to those who build it. Journalists are not excluded from this process… Continue Reading

The frequently numerical Tristan Louis has an interesting post about the size of Google’s index and the idea the company now sees MSN as its nearest competitor (no surprise there.) Google has 24 billion items indexed, considers MSN search nearest Yahoo says its index is over 20 billion items, but as John Battelle points out,… Continue Reading