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That's how I always start.
And I have written two, including one for billion-dollar "start-up," The Ecko Unlimited Company. Also, read thishttp://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-st artups.asp and thishttp://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/the_zen_of _busi.html>.

Skype have definitely got something going on, everything you read about Skype is positive. Everything you read about their compeitors is terrible!

Evan Williams and his team, of Blogger fame (bought by Google last year), developed a 'Plogging' app called Pyra back in 2000. Work on it got halted when Blogger started to take off, but I remember trying out a beta version and it rocked. There's a little info still around on Pyra, but not much, and people seem to miss it; the Pyra.com site is now just a brochure for their company, which was also called Pyra.

I guess the market just wasn't ready for this app in 2000. Credit to Williams and his team for their vision, I guess!

Google is now giving Gmail accounts to active users of its blogger.com service. As seen here (Ev, of Blogger)

We could all use them to reduce our needed interaction with the suits.

This shouldn't surprise many people, but as far as I know, Orlowski is full of crap. Again. If Google didn't find that blogs improved the results (and I don't know, I would assume they test these things, like, constantly), do you suppose they'd increase the frequency at which they crawl them, or decrease it? Yes, that's what I think.

Which is why Google is not eliminating them entirely, just moving them over to their own search.

Google hasn't announced any such thing. The whole story is made up by Andrew Orlowski, the IT equivalent of "The weekly world news" (Elvis gives birth to 300 pound baby; Google to filter blogs). He manufactures attention grabbing stories because it draws a lot of links and traffic from places that don't bother to check stories (like slashdot).

Here's a comment from Ev, of Blogger/Google.

Google hasn't announced any such thing, at least as far as removing weblog content from the main search is concerned. If you read the article, you'll note that it's Orlowski speculating about a Slashdot comment, of all things - specifically, a comment from the William Gibson blog thread. evhead posted about this Register article on Friday.

If Google didn't find that blogs improved the results (and I don't know, I would assume they test these things, like, constantly), do you suppose they'd increase the frequency at which they crawl them, or decrease it? Yes, that's what I think.

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<!-- Andrew Orlowski strikes with another brilliant theory designed to get attention from bloggers (even though the number of their readers is of course "statistically insignificant"). Well shit, I'm biting.

Based on Eric Schmidt's mentioning of a blog search, Orlowski suggests that Google will remove blogs from the main index.

This shouldn't surprise many people, but as far as I know, Orlowski is full of crap. Again. If Google didn't find that blogs improved the results (and I don't know, I would assume they test these things, like, constantly), do you suppose they'd increase the frequency at which they crawl them, or decrease it? Yes, that's what I think.

Too bad my headline isn't any truer than the Register's.-->

I think Google is the perfect Pyra buyer because their user-driven mentality is right in line with Evan's mentality. Google Labs is full of cool ideas that three-person Google teams come up with, and the ones that get a lot of user attention and use get funded further and get ramped up for mainstream use. It makes perfect sense to me that Google would be attracted to the best extra-googliar example of this mentality: Blogger, the first large-scale hosted blog application.

Curiosities I have are how Google will deal with it's first for-pay service, and what, if any, value-adds Google will give to Blogger blogs: Higher rankings in search results? Possibly. Live posting into Google's search index? Probably. I'm sure there are ideas that haven't even been thought of yet.

I can't wait to see where this goes! I just wish I was a part of it.

Read it yourself:

You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia or their products of services, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of these parties, violate any state, federal, or international law, or promote racism, hatred or pornography.

(And I feel all stupid because I didn't preview before posting)

source: mspur.pdf found via google by way of ev and infoworld.

You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia or their products of services, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of these parties, violate any state, federal, or international law, or promote racism, hatred or pornography.
source: mspur.pdf found via google by way of ev and infoworld.

I feel all smart 'cause I scooped /.