Rent-A-Book, Anyone?

**Amazon, with all their inventory and knowledge, is well placed to create a substantial book rental market**

Quirks of Google Suggest

Congratulations to google for proving it’s still possible to innovate in simple but powerful ways. Google Suggest brings auto-completion to the world of search. Simple idea, albeit technically challenge to scale, and amazing that none of the Google wannabees can’t...

Election 2008: The RSS Effect

Fascinating panel (Joho) with e-campaign managers Michale Turk - for Bush - and Joe Trippi - for Dean). Except … where’s the podcasting? If one thing is certain about US Election 2008, it’s time-shifted speeches and discussions.

Dynamic Java Summit: it’s gotta be Groovy Baby

Dynamic Java can’t come fast enough. So it’s good to see a Dynamic Java summit (via The Server Side was held by Sun,. It brought together several dynamic language heavyweights, including leads of Python (Guido), Perl (Wall), and Groovy (Strachan)....