Google Image Swirl: Better than Bing’s Visual Search?
If you missed it, Google announced it’s Google Image Swirl today – which is kind of like Wonderwheel in how it works, but allows you to narrow your image search based on visually similar items.  I did a search for “bank teller” and clicked on the most obvious match, which yielded these results:

102 Tips, Tools & Tweets from PubCon 2009
Here’s 102 tips, tools and tweets to summarize takeaways from PubCon 2009.  They’re in no particular order, but to make it a little more fun to scan, I’ve added a color code: Tips – Gray Tools / Resources – Purple Tweets – Blue @DerrickWheeler you know it was a good night when you wake up in hotel hallway at 7:30am #pubcon For 404s, try doing an overlay that users close, instead of a custom 404 page (Jill Sampey).

Digg’s New Full-Page Background Ads
Digg and I have a love-hate relationship. I love my loyal friends I’ve made there.  I hate their seemingly non-democratic policies of whitelisting some sites who blatantly do not follow the Digg TOU, which states that you agree not “to advertise to, or solicit, any user to buy or sell any products or services,” while blacklisting others for a little advertisement below the fold in the right rail *snark*. Lately, Digg has been trying a lot of new things with advertising (see Digg-fe

Google Dashboard FAIL – Missing Most-Used Products
Google released Google Dashboard yesterday to connect you more readily to all Google’s products.  Pretty minor development, but could be a step easier to get to all of their products.  Besides gmail, however, the most used ones I access are currently not available:

Eater.com: Bad PR Move or Brilliant Linkbait?
Eater.com launched a newly redesigned site yesterday.  As part of the release, as their audacious post explains, “Eater is offering $25 to any food blogger who will agree to shut his or her food blog down (and post this yellow notice on the site).”