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The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has organized a study group of universities and electronics companies. The government reportedly is considering spending up to $885 million on the search-engine plan as part of its efforts to become more dominant online.

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Just launched the intentional web, the presentation went well. We are just putting the finishing touches on Otavo which is set to launch Friday 16th.

We were tempted to pollute the Otavo logo with the word beta, but successfully resisted. Otavo is Otavo not Otavo Beta.

In Web 1.0 people put - 'under construction'
In Web 2.0 people put - 'beta'

Otavo is a new web service, and it comes with all the fun stuff you get when you launch a new service.

So for more hints on what Otavo is about look at The Intentional Web

AutoMarks V0.2

The Location bar currently uses data in your history to perform auto-complete of urls as you type them in. If you dont have much history, the autocomplete feature starves and provides you little or no results. This extension allows you to add your bookmarks so they are included in the Autocomplete search.

How to use:

In Firefox:

In the Bookmarks menu, select the Copy bookmarks to Autocomplete.
It will prompt you to confirm, then proceed with the transfer.

In Mozilla:

In the Tools menu, select the Copy bookmarks to Autocomplete.
It will prompt you to confirm, then proceed with the transfer.

Once your bookmarks are transferred, just use the location bar as usual.

What's new: It has been updated to work with Firefox 1.5+
Has not been tested with new versions of mozilla if any issues please leve a comment here and I'll look into it.

Install URL: Install AutoMarks 0.2

Jul 2008 NOTE: AutoMarks is DEAD. Firefox 3.0 now does this out of the box.(We recommend you upgrade to Firefox 3.0)

Firefox Extensions at Ticklespace.

AutoMarks 0.2 is available for the new Firefox 1.5

Enjoy.

Nov 2007 NOTE: AutoMarks is currently not under development.

Jul 2008 NOTE: AutoMarks is dead. Firefox 3.0 now does this out of the box.(We recommend you upgrade to firefox 3.0)

I get asked, are SEOs actually good for anything?

Well, It depends.

Search engine optimizers help a site appear on search results that are relevant its content.

I recommend you find a SEO that:

• is keeping up with the trends
• you can get along with
• is local or easy to communicate with
• is open about the process and is happy to handle your inquires

It also helps to get yourself educated in some of the terminology that the SEOs like to use.

I personally like Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch site. It is packed with info that is free with some premium content. Read all the free stuff and then consider getting the membership.

Real big diamonds made real fast. Wow! ignoring the implications to the gem industry, this is great news for future computing technologies.

Pictures of the diamonds

Wired article on diamonds - I had read this article a while back...very intersting saga.

"The Day After Tomorrow" is a pardoy on abbot and costello's Who is on first? I saw this featured in the Toronto Star It was very funny.

Ok, site is back to life now. A few upgrades and patches.

will keep you posted.