Blogger Finally has labels....almost

For those waiting on pins and needles, it appears that Blogger has implemented a decent solution. The only problem is, you can only test it out in their Beta version. Which means you have to create a new account, pick a new template and only allowed to post to their blogspot host. But for the purpose of testing, you can see that the final output is decent. Along with adding label support, the spell check is greatly improved and the photo upload function is much more dependable.

Will this be enough to sway me away from Word Press? Depends on how lazy I feel. If they can make it an easy transition then yeah, I'll hang around. But if there is any converting effort, then my time will be spent converting to Word Press.

It's official, Youtube is old news

There where many reasons sited why Youtube.com was beating out Google's Video hosting attempt. One reason I thought had merit was "Big Money". Once there were deep pockets, expect the lawsuits to start or a great purging of the questionable content. Appears this is now true as reported at Broadband that YouTube begins copyrighted purge.

Egad, could Mark Cuban have been right? This stinks at sooo many levels.

Web Office Tools

There has been a lot of write ups about the use of Web Office applications to date. I've been playing with Google's offerings of course, along with their email domain hosting option. It appears that Microsoft's Exchange Server is safe for now, as these apps while offering a cute web 2.0 interface just can't compete with the collaboration tools that users have come to expect from Exchange. But the Web Office world is slowly making some ground as seen with Google's offerings. I'm still suspect on the idea of relying on an Internet connecting to get work done, and allowing a 3rd party to host my content. I hope that MS can capitalize on this and add to their MS Live efforts.

But one tool I think I could really use today at work and home is an on-line Word Processor. I'm getting tired of taking notes by hand only to never set eyes on them again. Case in point I'm breaking down a database report and underlying queries for like the 4th time. So I will be making an effort to throw away the notepad and document my analysis with an on-line collaborate tool that I can access from multiple locations. A tool that I can search and find specific information that I don't have to re-do again in the future. I'll report back if this effort falls squarely in its/my face.

However, I'm surprised that Google hasn't offered a fully featured on-line word processor at this time. I guess I've become too impatient to wait on them, so I remembered a familiar offering at www.writely.com. So far I'm very impressed with the features. The common word processor functionality is there, along with Collaboration, Publish and blogging tools. Well, the blogging option caught my eye with the ability to directly publish to my blog. This could be my new favorite web 2 app. Ok, one beef so far, Writely doesn't support image links. Not a show stopper for sure, but this may not turn into my blog publishing tool....just yet.

And yes NoWood Matt, Word Press is supported. cool eh?

The Top 100 on Wikipedia

I've all but given up on trying to list the top rated keywords used on search engines. Week after weeks it's the same smut. Can't you people search for something else?!! This is getting old!! But found the following link that list the Top 100 Wiki articles most often viewed. Oh, and wouldn't you know it, at least half of the top 10 are sex related. Oh, there is a big surprise.