Newsmap is a visual way to see the news gathered from news.google.com. It works pretty well and is now a regular visit for me.

If it is as economical as they say to give people a gigabyte of e-mail storage, expect them to provide you with storage for other reasons down the line. Imagine having all of your mp3s stored by Google. Searchable and reachable, only by you, on various devices. Forget needing a bigger iPod hard drive. You just need a wireless connection.

It’s the ‘big hard drive in the sky’.

From John Battelle in his comments thread.

I am loving watching the mainstream media bite down hard on Google’s biggest April’s Fools joke yet. Believe me, someday Google will release an e-mail product, but it’s not today.

More at Slashdot and John Battelle’s Searchblog.

Then again… I could be wrong, which would be nothing new. This could just be a case of terrific marketing.

And two links to two Metafilter threads….

Whenever Google changes, even as subtly as its latest, it’s big news (Metafilter). I like what they’ve done. There are more search results “above the fold” and the placement of Froogle on the home page says something.

newsmap, found in the Metafilter post, is a pretty nifty attempt at graphically presenting news headlines.

You use asfunction to have a hyperlink, in Flash, execute an Actionscript method.

flashmagazine: Linking to Flash frames.

actionscript.com: getting to know asfunction.

Jesse Warden: How to break a Flash MX chatroom.

Mike Chambers: asfunction alternative.

Just for reference…

This link of simple tips is for some loved ones that just refuse to get web design. Read it please. Pretty, pretty please.

A useful plugin for Firefox if you’re doing server side web development.

From the mozdev Extension Room.

According to Pew: 44% of U.S. users have contributed their thoughts and files to the online world. Expect that figure to go higher.

More and more we are being given the tools to not only contribute, but compete where before the resources were out of reach, for example making movies. Or more immediately, punditry and opinion from weblogs has completely replaced it from traditional media for me. Same with music/TV/movie news and reviews and so much more.