Anyone used it / programs using it? In theory, it looks like its a reasonable basic aff system, but real world experience is always better than reading the authors own blurb...

Seriously, that would sell. Or a lightsaber. The Venn diagram of "3d printer owners" and "ST/SW fans" would be 2 circles drawn nearly on top of each other. Charge $15 for the d/l. You'd overheat a T1 line

Copy/paste this to your address bar

➹.ws

Works for me in FF, haven't tried in other browsers

One of Theos' favourites, this : http://www.kongregate.com/games/JuicyBeast/burrito-bison-revenge

Check the "Get more money" button in the shop screen. Get in game currency in return for other virtual currency, and / or actions on social platforms

Right now, I just turned it on, and there's some dude from G being interviewed only moderately incompetently by 2 arts graduate journos about the recent privacy policy changes.

They also have the daily poll showing, "Do interent users have a right to expect privacy?", or similar. 96 : 4 in favour of "yes"

Anyone got any pointers for decent, cheap (ish) image hosting, preferably not sharing IPs with adult stuff? Anyone I should definitely avoid?

Spent a chunk of the morning really playing with it. Now set as default search. It's like someone turned Google back about 10 years. Oh, and took the trouble to ask me which of the more advanced bits I wanted. Awesomwe

Few good names on the speaker list, anyone thinking of haunting the hotel bar etc?

Playing with G+, wants me to start adding people to "circles". Top of my list, ukgimp, Shawn Collins, PaulH, Rupert, Chris Clarkson, Matt Cutts...

Temptation. Nearly. Overwhelming

Econsultancy are incentivising their existing users to sell their products. Live leaderboard here :

http://econsultancy.com/uk/red-friday/leaderboard?utm_campaign=ashley-friedlein&utm_medium=answers&utm_source=staff

A genuinely innovative, social way of using the interwebs. And not a "like" button or farm implement in sight.

An old smoking buddy of mine is now IT support here

http://www.fusionio.com

Short version : Flash memory in the 160GB+ bracket that replaces RAID. For applications where you have heavy I/O requirements (heavy duty d/base lookups etc), can improve access times, reduce latency, reduce I/O bottlenecks etc. They have Wozniak on board as Chief Scientist, apparently

http://themightyadam.blogspot.com/2010/11/dr-seuss-does-star-wars.html

There are no words. I can die fulfilled now

Specifically, herpes. It's not for me, it's for a friend. Yeah. A friend

Any good ones to try, bad ones to avaoid?

Someone I worked with at Cheapflights years ago is looking at moving jobs, and getting back into interweb stuff. She's been doing retail management for the last few years, so not a lot of recent experience, and she would need training up. She is pretty sharp though, keen to learn, excellent work ethic etc. If I were in any position to hire staff, I'd hire her, put it that way.

Anyone got anything, or know someone who does?

Well, it was always going to happen eventually

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/15/google-targets-fashion-market-boutique

They are going after the fashion sector, with a site called boutiques.com. And Sarah Jessica Parker. "Do no evil", my shiny metal ass.... Try putting the domain into your address box for a dose of 401 goodness.

On a (possibly) related note, Ben Edelman is after them for hardcoding themselves on finance and health terms etc, and it will be facinating to see where boutiques.com debuts...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/15/google_accused_of_hard_coding_own_results_into_search/

Upon answering the phone, I was greeted by the dulcet tones of a gentleman from the Indian subcontient, somewhat improbably named "Kevin", who informed me that he was calling on behalf of the Do Not Call Service, who can get you removed from unsolicited telemarketing lists. Is this a cleverly disguised joke about recursion, or a real thing similar to the Telephone Preference Service? We are, of course, already registered with the TPS, for extra irony points

http://searchengineland.com/ask-com-to-focus-on-qa-search-end-web-crawling-55209

It's a shame. I never really used them much, but it was mostlybecause I never liked the layout much. With the way Google has been going, I can see myself looking for a new default SE soon, and my choices ae now one fewer

http://mashable.com/2010/11/10/google-bonus-raise/

Hmmm, that's a desperation move. If you have to use salary to keep the geeks from defecting to FaceBook, you've already lost the fight.

So, how many people here have a standing offer to Matt to name his terms when he finally gets sick of the Kool-Aid? 

http://blogs.digitalpoint.com/entry.php?b=215

Short version, he here details the shady practices he allegedly undertook at eBays own prompting. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure it's not a good idea to talk about the substance of criminal proceedings *before* the trial gets going.

If you've got some popcorn handy, it's laugh out loud funny though

Just seen this in my SERP

Results from people in your social circle for search engine optimisation - BETA

It's pulling data from Gmail, and giving me everything Julie Joyce has written at SEOChicks as a #11 result for loads of SEO related terms, including "search engine optimisation", "matt cutts", "doug heil", "ses london 2010". Seems to be reading her posts, crossreferencing with Gmail, and popping it way down there... for now.

The G / FB thing suddenly makes a lot more sense.