Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Technorati adds text search. Dave Sifry has added keyword search to Technorati: now you can run structured queries agains tthe full text of over a million blogs that ping blo.gs, Technorati or weblogs.com, and get up-to-the-minute accurate results. Link (Thanks, Dave!) [Boing Boing Blog]

Blogging eTech. In addition to the slew of live-bloggers and wiki coverage already taking place at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego (Cory's a featured speaker, and I'm popping in to schmooze for a few hours later today!), Jason Calacanis just launched www.bloggingetech.com. [Boing Boing Blog]

James Joyce: Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming Language. [Scripting News]

Nokia buys controlling stake in Symbian. The cell phone wars are heating up, but this time we're talking about operating systems, not handsets. Nokia has acquired a controlling stake in the maker of Symbian OS. [Ars Technica]

PeopleSoft kicks Oracle to the curb. Oracle bids $9.4 billion fo PeopleSoft. Whether Oracle acquires PeopleSoft or not, this could be bad for everyone. [Ars Technica]