I've just been mucking around with the Google Chart API, a straightforward way to produce graphs. Just for fun, here's a graph of new bookmarks of the Habari Project web site on del.icio.us.

Now we just have to make sure that we need to change the values on the y-axis by a couple of orders of magnitude by the end of the year.

While cruising the intarweb's verdant tubes recently, Google warned me that a site might install malware onto my computer, and helpfully provided a link to assist me in learning about evil web sites. Maybe I've been living under a rock—quiet you at the back—but I haven't seen this warning before. I was too lazy to investigate, but if this is a false positive, I wonder how this blogger feels about being tarred with this brush by Mr Google. [Update: Well, here's how someone felt about being marked as malware, and about Mr Google's response.]
Anyone who stays after a MS purchase won't be working there for the love of the company, that's for sure.
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Google today announced a new strategic initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal. The newly created initiative, known as RE<C, will focus initially on advanced solar thermal power, wind power technologies, enhanced geothermal systems and other potential breakthrough technologies.
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Tim Bray points to an interesting and detailed criticism of Google's Android. I don't pretend to grok the mobile landscape, but I do know that the mobile user experience sucks, and sucks needlessly. I've never bothered trying to develop anything for mobile platforms because none of it has ever looked remotely developer friendly.
Mozilla has released its 2006 audited financials and that little Google search box in the top right of Firefox is the gift that keeps giving. [...] Mozilla gets 85 percent of its revenue from Google.
There's quite a difference between the terms of use of Google's and Yahoo!'s search APIs. While both say you're not allowed to do anything illegal or mission critical (I especially like Yahoo! saying you can't rely on the API if you're operating nuclear facilities), they differ in terms of what you're allowed to do with the results. Google spends a lot of time saying what you're not allowed to do once you get results (you can only retrieve a small number of results (8 at the moment), you can't use them as the main content on your ...
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[The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission] claimed Google did not clearly distinguish between regular - "organic" - search results and ads at the top of the results page, which Google calls "Sponsored Links".
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I'm finding more and more feeds are being returned from Google. This seems like stupid behaviour to me. You use a search engine to meet an information need. I want to know something about Ferret, I'm likely to use a search engine to find it. Do I want to subscribe to a feed? No, that's way too much commitment. If I find what I'm after and the site looks interesting I'll poke around a bit and then I might decide it's interesting enough to subscribe to. The correct behaviour would be for Google to return a link to the ...
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