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So the rumor is that Automattic is for sale, at a value somewhere between $150-300 million. For the 2 of you who don’t know Automattic is Matt Mullenweg’s company, and is behind WordPress (the best blogging platform in the world IMHO), Akismet and now Gravatar. My first reaction when I heard this piece of [...]

Al Gore and the UN Climate change panel has won Nobel Peace Prize. Congratulations to them. This is significant because their efforts had gone a long way in creating the awareness among the masses regarding global warming and its dangerous impact on the earth. Mr. Gore has been the part of this campaign from the [...]

Let’s hope that the video of me playing with a lite saber doesn’t pop up when someone clicks on the location of the Sharper Image store in San Diego. That, of course, is not why the news that Google is going to integrating geo-tagged YouTube videos with Google Earth is burning up the internets

Ever since facebook opened up its application platform, the blogosphere is full of hype paralleled only by the hype during dot com boom days. The hype these days is almost at the delusional levels, with valuations going to 100 billions. I am not an anti-facebook person. I use it extensively. As Robert Scoble [...]

The internet is full of posts telling you what the value of links should be (I am not going to link to any of them) and how you can get links and so on and so forth. Perhaps I am grumpy today, but I almost yelled about loudly as I read yet another one [...]

Marshall had the scoop, and now it is official, Video Units are live, or at least have been announced (I still don’t see the option in my adsense setup). Definitely interested in trying out the ads and seeing how they might serve relevant material on a very niche set of topics.

Here is the press release by OAuth working group
The OAuth Working Group is pleased to announce publication of the Final Draft of the OAuth Core 1.0 Specification. OAuth (pronounced “Oh-Auth”), summarized as “your valet key for the web,” enables developers of web-enabled software to integrate with web services on behalf of a user without requiring [...]

Cross posted to bbgm
The tech blogosphere rarely talks up infrastructure and other non-sexy technology, so all the attention to Amazon’s Dynamo is good to see. I am going to use the headline from Techcrunch to ruminate over what a WebOS means to me, if anything at all.

One of the first places I stop every morning is Gabe Rivera’s Techmeme. Both the blogs I contribute to show up on there from time to time and I remember being quite thrilled the first time it happened. Last night, The Techmeme Leaderboard was unleashed upon us and even before its formal release [...]

The office 2.0 space got crowded today with the news about Microsoft’s online office suite and Adobe’s acquisition of Buzzword and its release of Adobe Share. Techmeme is buzzing along with the news from Adobe and Microsoft. The online office space is pretty crowded now and it bodes well for consumers as competition drives innovation. [...]