Other Items Less Interesting than Microsoft Surface

Sarah Perez on May 30th, 2007

There were a few other cool things happening on the net, but I’m too wrapped up in devouring content about Microsoft Surface to pay them much mind just yet:

Jason Calacanis, formerly of Weblogs, Inc., launched a search engine called Mahalo today. From the site: "Mahalo is the world’s first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides. Our Guides spend their days searching, filtering out spam, and hand-crafting the best search results possible. If they haven’t yet built a search result, you can request that search result. You can also suggest links for any of our search results." So it’s like the Wikipedia of search? Uh, has anyone told Jason how big the internet is?

I KNEW IT!! Google has announced "Google Gears" that lets you view content saved on Google when your computer is offline. Currently supported is Google Reader and in the works is Google Docs & Spreadsheets. First Google Gears, then Google OS, then Google takes over the world! (insert evil laughter)

Google acquired anti-malware security company, Green Border. First, safe web surfing, then Google OS, then…oh, I already did that.

EBay acquired StumbleUpon: "StumbleUpon is a great fit within our goal of pioneering new communities based on commerce and sustained by trust,” said, Michael Buhr, senior director, eBay. “StumbleUpon’s downloadable toolbar provides an engaging and unique experience to its users, but it is the similarities in our approaches to the concept of community that make it such a compelling addition to eBay.” Huh? I think EBay was just jealous, what with everyone acquiring things lately and they felt left out.

iTunes launched its DRM-free store, dubbed iTunes Plus so you can now purchase your tunes free from copyright protection. ArsTechnica explains how to view the DRM-free tracks by enabling iTunes Plus.

CBS buys last.fm; in other news, CBS now officially "cool"

Google acquires geotagging service, Panoramio for integration with Google Earth

YouTube is coming to AppleTV; I want YouTube on the XBox 360! Now I’m jealous!

iTunes launches iTunes U - college classes for your iPod; Can I get college credit for that?

YouTube CTO resigns…uh…I mean "retires"

MLB claiming Slingbox breaks law by "letting people who had legally paid to watch baseball games on their home TV system watch that same content outside their home"…jeez, you would think they would be happy that people are actually watching baseball…