Where Does Google Plan to Spend $4 Billion? – New York Times.

‘Google executives say they plan to unveil on Wednesday a "communications tool" that is potentially a clear step beyond the company’s search-related business focus.’

UPDATE: Google Talk IM was what they came out with…

Before Flickr introduced their interestingness/explore feature if you just browsed by tag you’d get random pictures associated with that tag.  But now you can browse only the good ones as deemed by their interestingness o’ meter.

Looking for a good slideshow of puppies?
flickr.com/photos/tags/puppy/interesting/show

or of funny pics?
flickr.com/photos/tags/funny/interesting/show

or of Nerds
flickr.com/photos/tags/nerds/interesting/show
(note the pic Bill took of the powerbooks at Trees Cafe is on the list)

Just remove the /show at the end to see the pics in non-slideshow mode.

Or if you want to just see awesome pics from the last 24 hours go here:
flickr.com/explore/interesting/24hours

Or browse by calendar:
flickr.com/explore/interesting/2005/08

You can also see which of your own photos are "interesting."
flickr.com/photos/YOURUSERNAME/popular-interesting

Enjoy the interestingness!

This is an example of the Firefox Greasemonkey extension called GMIF in action.  What it does is allow you to see your (or other people’s) geotagged Flickr images on Google Maps from within Flickr.  Sweet.

Soon you’ll be forced to use your spam ridden Yahoo! account to login to Flickr…  Are we already on the  slippery slope towards Flickr suckage? [via]

"Please note that we will be migrating all independent
Flickr accounts to Yahoo!’s network in 2006. At that time, if you have
not done so already, you will be asked to create a Yahoo! ID (or link
your account to your Yahoo! ID if you already have one) in order to
continue using your account. We’ll provide further details about the
merge as the date approaches."