A few weeks ago a lot of sites were writing about a web developer program from Microsoft that provided web-related software at no upfront cost. When you end your membership you will, however, have to pay a $100 fee.

I'm not sure how many of you have decided to take part in the Monopoly City Streets game, but one of my friends pointed out something interesting. The game was promoted as being powered by Google Maps, but looking into the FAQ's reveals that the data is not solely coming from Google.

Anyone concerned with the uptime of a website has got to be monitoring its availability one way or another. Previously I had used a service called Site24x7 because it's free, and overall it did a pretty good job. I'm now switching over to Pingdom because they just announced that they are now offering free website monitoring as well.

For the longest time I've been wanting Google to bring all of their services together into some sort of unified interface. A place where I could read my email, manage my calendar, catch up on news in my RSS feeds, search for a place on a map, and so on.

When Google made the announcement of Chrome OS last week we knew that Microsoft had something planned for toady, and they did.

Huge news broke this morning when information got leaked to the press regarding an acquisition of The Pirate Bay. It's said that they got $7.8 million for the site which will be turned over to the buyers, Global Gaming Factory X, in August.

I'm sure you guys will get a kick out of this one. Microsoft has posted a "Get the Facts" page that has a chart comparing some general areas of IE8 versus Firefox and Chrome. Naturally IE8 comes out on top... way on top!

This Friday Gmail Labs will be celebrating its one year anniversary. That's right... those "extras" that you've been enjoying in Gmail all started one year ago when they pulled the curtain off of 13 features that testers could enable in their Gmail accounts.

We've received a lot of requests over the last few months for us to setup a Twitter account that pushes out all the articles we post. The thing that was holding me back from creating one was that I wanted to do it my way. There are services like TwitterFeed that will take in your RSS feed, and post them to your Twitter account, but I didn't like that solution for a few reasons:

I've been playing with Microsoft's Bing search engine over the last day to see how it stacks up to the others. The thing I always find when trying out a new search engine is that it's so hard to find what I'm looking for because I've grown accustomed to formulating Google queries just right.