Following on from yesterdays news that Google desktop is hijacking your 404 pages, it's been clarified by Matt Cutt of Google that it applies to pages with less than 512 bytes.
So in the ongoing Yahoo, Microsoft bid, Silicon Alley Insider nicely summed it up predicting a $35 per share completion by Microsoft (up from the original offer of $31). Now it looks like Newscorp might be trying hard to get in on the act by offfering up MySpace and it Fox Interactive Media Properties (which include IGN, Scout Media, Photobucket, Fox Sports, AmericanIdol.com, Flektor, Ksolo plus investments in Hulu, Simply Hired and Snocap). These combined are worth circa $6 billion which might be combined with $9 billion in cash to make $15 billion which would give them a third of the company - unlike the Microsoft offer of a complete buyout.
Social network Bebo is rumoured to be in acquisition talks with Google perhaps for as much as $1 billion. Bebo is currently part of the Open Social platform and might make a good combined offering with Google's own network Orkut.
Firefox 3 Beta 3 has been released and is happily running on my machine. Note: The beta will overwrite any existing versions of firefox and add-ons which work on current versions may not work on the new one.
Yahoo oneConnect was announced. It is part of the Yahoo Go 3.0 mobile platform of services and widgets which seems to be an area where Yahoo really want to place themselves. oneConnect will allow you to integrate your IM clients on your mobile and also any social feeds such as facebook, twitter etc. Could be a very interesting mobile app.
Jukefly have a cool product which allows you to stream your music over the net. Perfect if you have a big music collection at home and want to be able to listen to it on the go without keeping it all on your hard drive. You can also share it with 1 other friend.