Yet Another Time Sink

I'm on Twitter now. Not sure if I'll do much with it, though...

If any of you are already Twitterers, care to share your usernames?

(Dis)Organized Thoughts on the Internet

• Short Attention Spans
• Tumblr
• Twitter
• What will be the ultimate conclusion of this trend?
• Google vs. Yahoo
• Yahoo
• Cool UI stuff (YUI shares the shininess)
• Cool tagging systems
• Del.icio.us
• Flickr (tag clusters are nifty)
• Will any of this improve their search?
• Is this the next way to create a web catalog, since the hierarchal system doesn't work so well?
• Google
• Local search becomes augmented reality (Google Maps + GPS-Enabled Smartphone = Win)
• Innovative approach to tagging
• Translation with a statistical focus --> natural language understanding (they're certainly hiring AI programmers left and right)
• Focusing on internet security, what's this all about? (That plus customized Firefox running off of a USB key = awesome.)
• Google Gears = webapps that work offline
• Yahoo vs. Google = explicit vs. implicit metadata? Cool thought, but certainly an oversimplification.
• Customization to the max
• Firefox plus extensions
• Greasemonkey = custom JavaScript, make sites do what you want
• Stylish = custom CSS, make sites look how you want
• Adblock Plus + Filterset.g Updater = block unwanted ads (letting less technically savvy people subsidize your surfing?
• Many more...
• I have yet to try writing my own
• Custom start pages
• Google has the newly renamed iGoogle
• I still think Netvibes is the best (and it grows ever shinier)
• Will such customization (to a less obsessive extent) ever be adopted by general audiences?
• Unrelated notes
• eBay has bought StumbleUpon and will likely drive it into the ground.
• Not related to the internet per se, but Microsoft has a new product (including a new OS?) that looks awesome. Innovation? From today's Microsoft? I'm stunned... Seriously, if those things sell for $5K-10K, they will be well worth it. Go and check out the video.