Agreed.

Quoted: In 99% of all cases, the Techcrunch early adopter crowd is probably NOT the ideal early adopter crowd to go after - your target market lives somewhere else
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The exceptions I'll make to this are B2B tech startups like Gnip, or companies primarily trying to target VCs in their announcements.

Instructions for Facebook application developers re: integrating with the new Facebook design.

Quoted: We’re getting ready to launch some significant changes and improvements to Facebook, including a new profile for users and a new navigation bar for the Facebook site. These changes are intended to help users communicate and share information more easily with each other - on their profiles, through applications, and through News Feed.

Microsoft is down 6% in after hours. I'm a little surprised since the results look reasonably good.

Quoted: Microsoft's revenue rose 18 percent for both its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter and year, but the company's Online Services Business (OSB), under scrutiny due to heated negotiations to purchase Yahoo's search business, continues to falter.

Looks like a nice suite for Windows Mobile phones.

Quoted: Locate your phone using GPS - See exactly where your phone is and track it on via Google Maps, or Virtual Earth.

A very handy site for generating ssl certificates -- however, I wouldn't use this for a production site since I don't know if the root authority information is included in all the major browsers. Hence, you will get a certificate warning.

Quoted: StartCom, the vendor and distributor of StartCom Linux Operating Systems, also operates MediaHost™, a hosting company, which offered its clients, SSL secured web sites with certificates signed by StartCom for many years. That's where the idea originated: Free SSL certificates!

This guy finds Facebook apps that are not properly computing and verifying the signature that proves that the caller is Facebook.

˙ʞooqǝɔɐɟ sı ɹǝllɐɔ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʇ sǝʌoɹd ʇɐɥʇ ǝɹnʇɐuƃıs ǝɥʇ ƃuıʎɟıɹǝʌ puɐ ƃuıʇndɯoɔ ʎlɹǝdoɹd ʇou ǝɹɐ ʇɐɥʇ sddɐ ʞooqǝɔɐɟ spuıɟ ʎnƃ sıɥʇ

Quoted: Mr. Armstrong, who is 37 years old, describes Project Spaghetti as an effort to fix the plumbing behind all of Google's ad initiatives. The inefficiencies, he says, are a product of Google's rapid growth and its innovation. Streamlining the systems and developing new ad formats, he says, should eventually improve the company's bottom line.

PEG is PE/growth projections. The thing to consider is that these companies could miss their growth projections, especially if the economy tanks.

Quoted: So the next stop is the "middle 20". These are publicly traded web technology stocks with a market cap over $1 billion. In our analysis below, more than half have a PEG below 1.0, which tends to signal "bargain opportunity" to investors. (caution: of course that is only a starting point for analysis, there could be some real dogs in there).

Is a SERP (search engine result page) API a good idea? I think it could be so long as the corresponding results are easier -- not harder -- to digest than they are now. Google does have co-op, which is a SERP API of sorts, but it is quite limited.

Quoted: If these scenarios were possible, then you might argue that all the smart stuff that Google's doing to improve their SERP (seach engine result page) - like making YouTube video thumbnails, or Google Image Search shortcuts - could be done automatically by the people building the underlying sites and integrating with a SERP API.
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Without this, the SERP is a walled garden platform that gets slow, incremental features based on whatever Google chooses to implement. And that's the furthest thing from open, yet it's also not Googley to let people clutter up the SERP. So we'll see how this tension evolves over time ;-)