Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7.0 team detailed the CSS/Web Standards changes that are being made and also discussed the Web Standards Project’s participation.

Google just announced a new Google Base data API. This is significant for developers. Will be interesting to see what happens becaus of it. Thanks to Richard MacManus for letting us know.

Now we know why they hired Vic Gundotra. You can see that Google is going to build a whole developer program.

Diego Rodriguez writes about how General Motors is using Flickr.

Here’s one thing I learned from Thomas Hawk, though. He says if you want a lot of traffic from Google Images that you have to upload your images using Google’s Picasa instead of to Yahoo’s service.

Sounds like Google is penalizing Flickr, right? Well, probably not explicitly Thomas told me. Instead Google’s algorithm biases on URL names. So, if you are searching Google Images for “Cool Cars” then Google will bring back images with the name in the URL. Picasa, when it uploads, includes the file names you give your photos in the URL. Flickr changes those to numbers.

Oh, and the melons? They were in the Stanford Mall today. Nice melons, huh?

Heheh. I just wanted to write a post with a cool car photo in it.

If you think Michael Gartenberg is joking about his three laws for marketing consumer electronics, I’ll guarantee you he isn’t. That dude has more gadgets than anyone I know except for maybe Vic “gadget ho” Gundotra. Love this thought: “Getting the first 50,000 is a milestone. Getting 500,000 and 5,000,000 is where it matters. Enthusiasts won’t get you there but influencers will.”

Yikes, the MyKin bus (I’ve written about their cross-country trip before) burned up. Yeah, I missed that, but there’s more on their blog.

One thing I’ve come to appreciate about blogging is that people I trust write me stuff and it comes to my RSS News Aggregator. Here’s an awesome example. Scott Hanselman is a developer I’ve known and come to trust (he works with my brother, for instance) and here he raves about FinePrint — says “I literally can’t overstate how much this application has changed the way I use my computer and my printer.”