Google continues to push consumers to use their products by offering web site owners more money for referrals. You can now earn $2 for getting a user to install Google Pack or $1 for getting a user to install Google Picasa.

With WinHEC right around the corner (about two weeks away) people are starting to find out which build of Vista Microsoft will hand out to attendees. Paul Thurrott has said that Microsoft is going to hand out Vista 5381 and this will be branded as Beta 2. Here is what he had to say: Microsoft continues work on Vista build 5381, which will be finalized as Beta 2 on May 22.