My NZ 2.0 buddy Ben Nolan is selling one of his web apps, bubbletwo, on eBay. There he is pictured on the left, pretending he's zooming down the Silicon Valley

I've long been suspicious of some of the stats that certain companies and bloggers push. We all know by now that industry stats tool alexa.com must be taken with a

Google has acquired what I chose as the 'best of breed' Web-based word processing app in my recent ZDNet post Web Office Suite [news via TechCrunch] The Writely blog is

Today I spoke to JotSpot co-founder and CEO Joe Kraus about their latest product release, pre-packaged "wiki applications". We also discussed the Web Office, which I will post about separately

Yahoo has announced four new APIs for its Developer Network: Photos, Calendar, MyWeb and Shopping. The Shopping 2.0 API is available now, while the Photos, Calendar and MyWeb read/write APIs

The Register investigates. [via] Full whiteboard image here I knew Google was up to something big. It's always the quiet ones you need to watch...

Live.com, Microsoft's personalized start page, has just been upgraded with some impressive new features. Live.com program manager Sanaz Ahari sent me details of the release this evening. It was good timing,

TechCrunch has obtained screenshots of the as yet unreleased Google Calendar, called CL2. The leak came via Google's closed beta of about 200 participants. Apparently CL2 is a long way

Microsoft has just released (or is about to) a series of new products: Windows Live Search Beta, Windows Live Toolbar Beta and the next version of Live.com. Details on my

ETech 2006 has started and it's the one conference this year which people kept telling me I should be at (but oddly, no one offered to pay my airfare...). Oh