Crunchbase actually has a nice list of Google Products as a side-effect of their having covered many Gogole product launches.

Quoted: Google primarily provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world's information. In addition to

Blue Dot used to be a "can't live without" product for Arrington in 2007. How do we get back there again?

Quoted: At the beginning of each year I traditionally publish a list of my favorite startups and products. This is the fourth year I've ...

More embeddable charts - a techcrunch 50 finalist.

Quoted: Upload your Excel sheets and create high-quality interactive charts in the iCharts studio, in minutes. Publish and share your charts on the iCharts portal, making them visible to Google and other search engines. Embed fully interactive charts in PDF documents, online and offline.

Thanks to RescueTime, I'm now a listed Angel investor on CrunchBase (they never got my Faves.com investment).

Scoble twittered about this site - apparently used for TechCrunch 50 to manage the process for 1,000 company submissions and evaluations.

What ever happened to Foxmarks Search? Demoed a year ago - I don't see it on the foxmarks web site.

Quoted: Mitch Kapor likes to solve problems. In the 80's, he was the guy behind Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for computers. More ...

Ramez was the MS rep on the call about the PowerSet acquisition.

MS acquired PowerSet to add natural language capability to the Live Search engine. The guess is that this was a $100M deal. Which shows there is still room for innovation in the search realm - it's good to see MS taking a stab at innovating in search.

Cozi, Robbie Cape's company, started out focused on family organization tools centered on the "living room" (e.g., using Windows Media Center apps). That now seems to have morphed to a more traditional online service (but now with Outlook(?) integration).

New investment by Gannett (Topix) brings total startup cost to around $15M. They are claiming 600,000 registered users and adding 2,000 per day. Their Alexa number are in the toilet, however (162,000), which begs the question, how are they getting all this usage, and not registering on Alexa?

Quoted: Cozi, an intriguing Seattle based startup that's most easily described as a social network for a family unit, is announcing an investment and ...

An hour-long conference call podcast EVERY DAY (sheesh) which frequently includes Arrington, Scoble, Cantor, and Calacanis.

I only recently started reading Steve Gillmor in the form of his posts on TechCrunch. Unfortunately, I don't think he's a very good writer; he seems inclined to produce a Joycean stream-of-consciousness wandering rant that can only be understood by the most inner-circle of Silicon Valley groupies and tech weenies.

I'm listening to the May 23, 2008 podcast with Google Engineer David Glazer. He explains oAuth and the rationale for the Google IO conference.

These calls look like they have some good gems in them - I just can't imagine devoting the time to listed to 7 hours per week to cull the wheat from the chaff.