Independent Analysis: AI, SaaS, and Revenue Growth Strategy

The site did not try to sell you anything. It offered a nice way to choose your favorite band or song and create a radio station. They have technology that matches your choice to similar artists and songs and adds them to your station. Don't like the songs they have added you can right click and choose the options. Pandora.com is a great site. Enjoy.

Over the holidays my neice visiting me from Texas taught me a great lesson. Children learn geography in school and my niece is not evenin school. She knows all the 50 states and where they are physically located. Thanks in part to being the daughter of two software engineers and a nice site where any kid can play a easy to use and highly educational game Map fun and test Needless to stay I passed after 3 tries.

More companies are using blogs to spread the word or clarify issues. In this new Blog posting on Google's official blog. Google explains what the recent investment in AOl means. I am happy they are goign to maintain the look and feel of the Google's search results.

Google is getting into our lives more and more. I was trying to see how many people I knwo have heard of the group Boney M. When I googled them i was surprised to see a search result with a music icon next to it. Click the icon and it gives you all the tracks and also links to where you can get the tracks. pretty neat. In case you have not heard of Boney M here is a link

Erik Jorgensen, general manager for MSN search announced at the Kelsey GRoup Interactive Local media conference that they are launching Windows Live Local next week.WIndows live will have features that the users can interact with more.Example : show all the favorite restaurants in a town. From Erik's speech it looks like he already has his mother's arroval as a user. WIndows Live also can be integrated to the Messenger so two people talking on MSN's messenger platfrom can look at a map and talk about the locations and the services available in the location. See more at Greg Sterling of the Kelsey Group