Another Google blog hack?

Today myself and other subscribers to the Official Google Blog RSS feed saw an article with the headline "Google Click-to-Call project cancelled", and the following text:

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Voice Chat Comes to Online Games

Vivox plans to integrate voice chat directly into online game interfaces.

Unwilling troops obtain legal aid, solace in Canada

Following the Vietnam War-era draft dodgers before them, disillusioned Iraq war soldiers flee from the U.S. to Canada.

Google Picasa Web Albums Adds Mac Support

Google has announced tools to allow Mac users to upload from iPhoto or the Finder to Picasa Web Albums. (Picasa itself remains a Windows-only application, however, although a Linux version available for testing.)

Record CCD image sensor has 111 million pixels

This four-inch chip is not likely to be found in your consumer digicams anytime soon :-) (Warning: site had been slashdotted)

System Blocks Unwanted Video & Still Photography

Georgia Tech has created a prototype device that prevents digital cameras from working in a given area.

Search Through Enron Emails

As an example and promotion for a product that searches company e-mail for privacy violations and other warning signs, Inboxer has made available all e-mail gathered during the Enron trial legal discovery process. Hours of entertainment, and a contest to boot!

Second Life: Don't worry, we can scale

Second Life CTO bets that Linden Lab can catch up to WoW's 6.5 million users within two years. Will Linden's servers handle the load?

Launch early, launch often: Google cuts corners

Google in today's annual Press Day event addressed complaints about the quality of some of their products, admitting that quality of their free applications takes a back seat to their search operation.

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Google Announces New Desktop, Search Products

At today's annual Press Day, Google announced several new technologies, including Co-op for experts in health and other areas to contribute information, an update of Desktop which includes gadgets, Trends for analyzing search term popularity, and Notebook for clipping and shari

Virtual Land Dispute Spills Over Into Real World

A member of the massive multiplayer game Second Life has sued Linden Lab for denying him access to virtual real estate he purchased at rock-bottom rates by exploiting a loophole in the online auction system.

Corporations Learn from Online Gaming

Massive multiplayer online games such as Second Life and World of Warcraft are providing businesses opportunities to collaborate across international lines and hone management skills.

Daryl Hannah's Eco-Activism

A vegetarian who fuels up on biodiesel and lives off the grid, actress Daryl Hannah promotes ecological responsibility in her video blog.

Court OKs Gender-Based Grooming Standards

A federals appeals court on Friday ruled that employers can set different grooming standards for women and men, when deciding a case of a casino worker who was fired for refusing to wear makeup.

Slashdot Adds Bookmarks, Tagging

Slashdot, the popular "news for nerds" site, has added a bookmark function allowing users to tag and share public lists of URLs.

West Wing Fictional Election Decided by Real Life Tragedy

The presidential election depicted on last night's episode of "The West Wing" was originally scripted to go to the Republicans. But when John Spencer, the actor playing the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, died in mid-December, the writers of the series changed the outcome.

Google Romance: "Love is Just Another Search Problem"

Google Romance "offers users both a psychographic matchmaking service and all-expenses-paid dates for couples who agree to experience contextually relevant advertising". Uh-huh, sounds like an April Fool's joke to me too. :-)

Museum of Modern Betas Ranks Popular Web Apps

The Museum of Modern Betas, or MoMB, has ranked "the biggest betas in the webosphere" by number of del.icio.us bookmarks. For March, Flickr comes out on top, with Netvibes a distant second.

Google Blog Troubles

As of this writing, the official Google blog on Blogger is returning a 404 - Page not found error. What's even more curious is that my RSS aggregator (Protopage) shows a couple of entries for the Google blog that were obviously not written by official Google staff.

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Cybersquatters Try New Tactics

The latest trend in cybersquatting: "soft squatters" registering the domains of potential celebrities before they become famous.

Sims 2 Nightlife for Mac Hits Gold Master Status

Aspyr Media, Inc. today updated its project status page to show Gold Master status for their port of The Sims 2 Nightlife, an expansion to the highly popular life simulation game from Maxis. The game is expected to ship this month.

Aspyr's Plans for Mac Games and Universal Binary Support

Glenda Adams of Mac game developer Aspyr Media, Inc., discusses development of upcoming games including Quake 4, Sims 2 Nightlife, Call of Duty 2, and Civilization IV.

Fifty invite codes?

I noticed today that one of the rotating top banners had changed from "Make 20 people happy" to "Make 50 people happy". Not sure if this change applies to just people who joined during beta or not.

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$690 per square foot

That's what it takes to get a condo in San Francisco, and this is in a "cooling" housing market.

LibraryThing Catalog Reaches Two Million Milestone

LibraryThing, an online book cataloguing web site with collaborative features, now boasts a catalog of over two million books.

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