These are my links for May 31st through June 1st:

• Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web. – Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard. While we’re not there yet, all the major browser players besides Microsoft are aligned and ready for the next phase, which will include such things as the ability to run 3D games and movies in the browser without additional plug-ins. But Google wants to take it one step further with a brand new method of communication for this new era. It’s called Google Wave.
• Micro Persuasion: Visits to Twitter Search Soar, Indicating Social Search Has Arrived – According to data from Compete.com visits to the Twitter search page grew more than 400% in the last six months. This sub-domain alone recorded 2.7M unique visitors in April, up from just shy of 536,000 in October. Even more remarkable, traffic to the site, which is tucked away, grew 24% in April.
• Freshen me up – A nice blog about stuff…
• 100+ Incredible Twitter Backgrounds | cheth Studios – As the Title suggests these are the Best designed, kickass Twitter Backgrounds! I know that I cannot make justice to this I might have missed out some great ones, so do comment and let us know!
• Monday Note – media, tech and business stories – A potentially interesting blog
• Revealed: where Google’s data centres are around the world | Technology | guardian.co.uk – Analysis of data released by Google shows where its data centres – the places that keep it going .
• Zivity » The home of independent artists, models and rock-stars. GET EXPOSED. – A social network for artists, models & musicians. By paying a $10 subscription one gets the ability to view great work and vote whilst generating micro income for content providers. So fr the majority of the images on the homepage (I have not subscribed) include scantily clad females..
• New Economics of Advertising: 101 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals – Twitter has become an incredible tool not just for communication, but for improving your life. Anyone can use it to expand their social circle, promote their side business, keep their coursework organized, and more. Whether you want to achieve your Twitter goals, or just use it as a tool to achieve others, these tools will help you get there.

These are my bookmarks for May 31st from 09:31 to 14:50:

• Monday Note – media, tech and business stories – A potentially interesting blog
• Revealed: where Google’s data centres are around the world | Technology | guardian.co.uk – Analysis of data released by Google shows where its data centres – the places that keep it going .
• Zivity » The home of independent artists, models and rock-stars. GET EXPOSED. – A social network for artists, models & musicians. By paying a $10 subscription one gets the ability to view great work and vote whilst generating micro income for content providers. So fr the majority of the images on the homepage (I have not subscribed) include scantily clad females..
• New Economics of Advertising: 101 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals – Twitter has become an incredible tool not just for communication, but for improving your life. Anyone can use it to expand their social circle, promote their side business, keep their coursework organized, and more. Whether you want to achieve your Twitter goals, or just use it as a tool to achieve others, these tools will help you get there.
• Listing all ideas – Ideablob: where ideas grow – Where business ideas have the best chance to succeed

These are my bookmarks for May 13th from 22:03 to 22:46:

• The Human Clock® – About – Humanclock.com shows a photograph of the current time, with the photo changing every minute of the day (all 1,440 occuring minutes on Earth!) Thus you end up with a rotating picture clock sorta deal.
• Natasha Miller – Natasha Miller :: San Francisco Bay Area Jazz Vocalist – HOME – Jazz Singer recommended on #WebsiteWednesday Twitter
• May 12, 1967: Pink Floyd Astounds With ‘Sound in the Round’ | This Day In Tech | Wired.com – 1967: Pink Floyd performs the first-ever surround sound concert at “Games for May,” a lavish affair at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall where the band debuts its custom-made quadraphonic speaker system. The technological breakthrough not only amazes and confuses the mass of stoned concert-goers, but it goes on to raise the standard of what audiences would come to expect from a live rock performance.
• Google Search Introduces New Feature – "Google Search Options" | Fuzz One Media – Google’s search options adds an extra layer of dynamic filters to the search engine result page (SERPs) – with a single click a search result has extra filters (on the left) that shows your search query results as Video, Forum posts or Review only results. You can also further filter your results by time or choose to display more text on the description area of the SERPs.
• Twofer The Price of One: Help! Disney World Questions – Need Your Input! –

These are my links for May 8th through May 11th:

• google-email-uploader – Google Code – The Google Email Uploader is a desktop utility for Microsoft Windows that uploads email and contacts from other desktop email programs (like Microsoft Outlook) into your Google Apps mailbox. The Email Uploader preserves information such as sent dates and sender/recipient data, as well as the folder structure used by the other email program. The Google Email Uploader requires a Google Apps account.The Email Uploader is Apache 2.0 licensed open source software, and is governed by the terms of the included license file. This means you may modify the tool to better suit your needs.
• .PST Import Tool for Entourage – Official Microsoft software to import .pst files directly into Entourage on the Mac.
• Import .PST files – Entourage doesn’t provide direct support for PST files, as this is a Windows Outlook file format. Entourage won’t be able to read your PST files directly, but there are tools and methods available to import PST files into Entourage.
• Best practices for scalable, high performance systems « Wille Faler’s Buzzword Bingo – So here goes, 8 tips for making your system high performant and scalable:
• Aerial Photography: Airview Image & Stock Photo Service: Australia – Airviewonline is the stock image library of Airview Aerial Photography. Through this easy to use site, you will be able to search, purchase and download from a vast collection of aerial images. Currently the library contains 10331 aerial photos, and many more photos of Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere are being added daily. Check back regularly to see where the Airview team have been recentl
• Connecting the Dots: Twitter GMail Gadget Useful Elsewhere -
• 10 Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers | 10 Volt Media Blog – With a plethora of add-ons and extensions, created for developers by developers, Firefox becomes much more than just a browser and turns into an essential part of your toolbox.
• wordpress mail plugins – wordpress plug ins that help mail content
• Tweets From Space: NASA Turns To Twitter And YouTube To Reconnect With The Public – NASA has recently been making a big push in using modern consumer technology, the web, and social sites to reach a broader audience. Yesterday it launched a collection of very impressive Photosynth galleries of the ISS and Mars Rover
• Google Does TV Ads, To Push Chrome Browser In Commercials – It’s a first for Google. The company has never directly advertised one of its products on television in the US, though they have been mentioned in conjunction with ads from Google partners, such as T-Mobile pushing its “G1 with Google” Android phone.
• Setup your Own URL Redirection Service with Google Short Links – TinyURL Clone – You can consider setting up your own URL shortening service that will run on your own domain (or web server) and the short URLs will therefore resolve throughout the lifespan of your site.
• Stupeflix – Video creation made easy – Welcome – create videos from still photos in minutes
• Download Free Repeat Patterns – free repeat patterns – good for backgrounds etc.
• Twitter Search To Crawl Links & Add Ranking Algorithm – Cool changes coming to Twitter Search from News.com reports Twitter will be improving Twitter Search to index content beyond Twitter.com by crawling links within Twitter posts and also by adding a ranking algorithm to the search results.
• Twitter Search to dive deeper, rank results | Webware – CNET – Twitter Search will become a lot more useful soon, the microblogging site’s new vice president of operations said Wednesday night.

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