Google Reader

Google just release another Beta application, Google Reader. It is actually a web-based RSS reader, but by far seems to be the slickest, at least for now. So check it out.

Upcoming Yahoo! Mail

A totally revamped Yahoo! Mail is now in Beta. From what I read from some blogs and review here and here, the new Yahoo! Mail is very impressive. Its been redesigned to look and feel more like your desktop mail program than a webmail. From some of the pictures I've seen, it really made GMail looks antique. Ironically, Cedric recently blog about moving from Outlook to GMail. Maybe he should have waited for the new Yahoo! Mail to move out of Beta before moving.

The Birth of Google

There is a very interesting article on Wired about the birth of Google. It talks about how Larry and Sergey met and how they started Google.

Yahoo! bought Konfabulator

Yahoo! has acquired Konfabulator and made it available for free. I first heard of Konfabulator from the controversy that Apple's Dashboard was copied from Konfabulator when Apple announced their MacOs X Tiger. Seeing how cool Apple's Dashboard is, I wanted to see Konfabulator for myself on Windows. No doubt about it, it was just as cool. After a while, when the cool factor wear off, I find that it just an eye candy. Not much of a use and not worth paying for. Now that Yahoo! has acquired Konfabulator and will be making their massive contents available on it, it will become more useful. What's more you can't beat the price.