Official Google Blog: Google Finance in Canada. excellent.

NBC+FOX YouTube Killer Signs Jason Kilar as CEO. he was my old VP at Amazon.

Back up Gmail with fetchmail - Lifehacker. i need to start backing up my stuff, especially my gmail.

John Lam on Software: Steve Yegge ported Rails to JavaScript. it’s too bad he didn’t add on to TrimJunction, which I actually blogged about over a year ago.

Google Gives Up on Competing With eBay’s Big Boston Party - New York Times. nothing like a classic pissing match.

Google Street Map Preview. pretty cool. You can rotate the image 360 degrees and click the arrows on the image to “walk” the streets. short article from techcrunch about it.

$100 Million Payday For Feedburner - This Deal Is Confirmed. well, that’s another thing i use that google now owns.

Working at Google versus Working at Meetup. it’s funny that he made the page on google docs. via ram.

Official Google Reader Blog: Feed Your Television. seems they have a wii specific reader. kinda cool. via sean.

Google Earth reveals Sudan atrocities. brief article about a google earth mashup made by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

How to Write a Spelling Corrector. bigwig at google shows you how to write a pretty good spellchecker in 20 lines of python.

Media world eyes Viacom-YouTube slugfest - MSNBC.com. viacom filed suit for a billion dollars.

Yaris SXSW | yrItinerary. handy sxsw showlist + google map.

Google Webmaster a couple useful tools to see what who links to your site, popular searches, etc, according to google. it’s good to know that “screech porno” is still a top search item for this blog.

life2.0

I just discovered that a friend of mine is having a baby because he posted a sonograph photo of the baby on flickr which I just saw through an rss feed in google reader. i am now living life2.0.

British Newspapers Optimize for Google—and Pay Google, Just to Make Sure - paidcontent. london papers buy keywords on google for breaking stories to drive traffic.

GigaOM » Forget iPhone, Think Google Phone. rumor has it that google is talking to HTC and Orange about a possible google phone. Om fuels the rumor further by pointing out a purchase google made last year related to a possible mobile/cell OS.

The Google Brilliance applied to Newspapers and Local Media - Blog Maverick. i haven’t been crazy about cuban’s posts the last few months but this was really interesting.

Google’s latest tool for democracy activists | FP Passport. seems google earth images of the lavish homes of bahrain’s ruling family are coming in handy for activists.

problems with google reader

any chance there’s someone who reads this who (a) uses google reader and (b) has had problems with it? My problem is that certain feeds don’t update for days and then randomly do a bulk update. My problematic feeds include 37signal’s Signal vs Noise and rss feeds from delicious (including 3rdparty). I haven’t seen a pattern to the problem. If I click on a feed which is displayed as “not updated”, I sometimes I will get updated posts and other times I won’t. This is annoying. Anyone have any ideas or solutions?