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One of the great things about the internet generally and some of the cool tools you have at your disposal is that everything is instant and very transparent. The inter-connected world can know the minutest detail about your life, sometimes whether you want it to or not. And sometimes the instant-ness of it all can result in huge and very public embarrassment. Take this scenario:

Rich Skrenta's analysis of Google's winner take all positioning in search and advertising is a highly recommended read.

Yahoo! announced the winner of their first-ever Talent Show contest last week: comedic music video maker Rex Hermogino.

I use Gmail for both my personal and business e-mail. The business side of things is relatively new (within the last month or so).

Over the past several months I have been playing around with mobile RSS readers. These include Newsgator Mobile Edition, Bloglines Mobile and My Yahoo! Mobile.

Did I say that this is the only effort Microsoft is making to engage with customers about Longhorn? No.

Microsoft announced that New Zealand-based Ambient Design Ltd., creator of ArtRage, is the $100,000 grand prize winner of the Microsoft Tablet PC Does Your Application Think in Ink? contest, a competition challenging developers to utilize the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Software Developer Kit (SDK) 1.7 to create new applications or ink-enable existing Windows XP-based applications.

With the first part of DarkBlue's SEO challenge already decided, the optimization company announced the winner of the second stage of the challenge. The two-month competition had two stages in which winners could be declared.