Earlier today Bill gates sat down with some of the top bloggers on the Web and Steve Rubel was included in that list. I could only imagine what it would have felt like to meet Bill Gates but I am sure there was a lot of energy in the room. The session lasted just one hour and each of the 14 bloggers were allowed to ask one question.

Matt Cutts, a Google employee, pointed out a site that has a list of things they would like to see from Google. The list has 16 items on it and many of them are respectable requests. Here are a few that I agree with the most:

Okay, this is one of the coolest sites that I have been to in a long time. StumbleVideo is a simple concept that is based off of the popular StumbleUpon for Firefox and Internet Explorer. It will basically shuffle you through videos from MySpace, Google, and YouTube based upon the category that you want to watch.

It has been a little while since we have seen some updates to Google Picasa Web Albums but it looks like there are some nice things just in time for the holidays. Here are the new features that I am sure you'll love:

In September Dell launched a computer recycling program but at the time it was only available for limited markets. The press release from yesterday also says something interesting:

The above image was taken from the PDF for the patent that Google just received for their search interface. I'll warn you right now that there isn't much content in the PDF and the screenshots don't get any clearer from what I have pictured above.

Many of us are aware that Windows Vista has a feature called User Account Control (UAC). This prevents programs from making changes to the registry or doing anything malicious to your computer without you granting the software administrative rights.