Where do search engines get data

Jeremy Zawodny has a really good post about the amazing number of distractions that keep pulling us away from work. It’s so true.

There’s a possibility that we might be attending the Web 2.0 Expo, and if we do, we’re planning to spend some time networking with potential customers of our product. We’re going to be attending along with several people from Viddler. The show is on April 15th through the 18th in San Francisco. It will be…

File this under “I completely understand.” IT experts are more likely to suffer from stress than any other professional, according to the survey. A staggering 97 percent of people working in IT claim to find their life at work stressful on a daily basis. Four out of five IT consultants feel stressed before they even…

Spreading around today but worth posting about. How companies got their names. My favorites are: “eBay – Pierre Omidyar, who had created the Auction Web trading website, had formed a web consulting concern called Echo Bay Technology Group. “Echo Bay” didn’t refer to the town in Nevada, the nature area close to Lake Mead, or…

AT&T is introducing a new service called CallVantage which basically is a phone that attaches to your home high-speed internet and allows you to make phone calls. For discussion: is this the future? Will phones be like this in the coming decades? Would you sign up?

Would you ever be able to justify using a 50mbps download speed connection? You would be able to download 24 hours worth of music in about 8 minutes at that speed. That’s amazing. Is it really necessary though? What’s too-fast? There’s some good discussion and a good post about this topic up at Om Malik’s…