New TWiT.. Good Links.. Google still kicking ass and Interesting Conversations

There's a new TWiT out this week which I thought was one of the more interesting ones I've heard in a while. Check it out. Some of the better topics are a website called Yelp which uses social bookmarking combined with restaurant reviews and other things. Kind of an interesting use of social networking. Ron, a co-worker, also pointed me to this Web 2.0 website, http://www.tagworld.com, that is similar to del.icio.us and blogger and flickr.

After reading this article in eweek about the buying of "virtual items" and using third world slave labor to build up characters in MMORPG's in order to sell these items, a co-worker, Randy B. (named changed to protect the innocent), took it one step further and thought about starting his own Sim-Life website using slave labor. Think of the joy you could have knowing that you are causing some kid in china to jump up and down for hours a day by paying him $.25.

Google released their ZeitGeist for 2005. This shows all of the most popular searches of the year. Pretty interesting stuff.

I'll be attending CES this year for the first time. As the weekend gets closer, and the emails keep coming in regarding what will be unveiled, I'm gettin more excited. I've heard rumblings about using slingbox with your cell phone to get tv shows delivered from your home directly to you. Jason sent this link talking about the topic.

I'm hoping to post my OPML file soon so that both of you that read this webpage can track what geek stuff I'm reading daily.

HEY GOOGLE! Why not allow OMPL imports and exports from my personalized google page to make this easier?