- Live.com to be homepage of Vista, IE7 (Niall Kennedy answers a question I asked at Microsoft Search Champs in January - HUGE news for RSS, search and gadgets)

- Microserfs, Revisted ("perhaps Scoble is the modern equivalent" - of the Microserfs narrator, I think he means...)

- Outlook on software in 2006: Healthy, disruptive (Dion Hinchcliffe summarizes the Software 2006 Industry Report - which is bullish on web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise)

- SEO Spending vs. Google Base (Jeremy suggests a service for inputting content into Google Base, as an SEO tool... I know of at least one vendor with plans to do this)

- The next killer apps on the "connected web" (nice case studies...)

- What's Missing: A Web 2.0 Critique (Stowe Boyd asks for "new and innovative ideas, not just a slightly different riff on meme tracking, or yet another email app, or just a different interface for photo sharing.")

- Subscription Music Services Compared (Frank Gruber is doing great work at TechCrunch... btw I've been seeing interesting tv ads from Nokia about their mobile music service - can't wait to see that.)

- Fred Wilson on Disney releasing tv shows on the Web ("We can't get to Umair's world of microchunked, rebundled media without the critical first step of freeing the content and focusing on monetizing it with new advertising models.")

- PaidContent on new media Emmy Award ("will recognize entertainment programs created specifically online, portable players and mobile content." -- Live 8 on AOL got the most buzz, but the others I don't know much about)

Flickr pic by Niall Kennedy: Bill Gates in a 1985 Windows advertisement.