Neato browser-based IM thing: Meebo. Good for when you’re not at your own computer.

(via: I doubt they’d want me to say they’re touting it.)

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We gather together: See you tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. at the Boulevard Bolt. It’s one of my favorite Nashville events of the year. After jogging five miles with a few thousand people who are raising money for several Nashville agencies that serve the homeless, you don’t feel so bad eating so much turkey.

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Miss America misses Nashville: Despite the speculation (but not by me) that it may move to Nashville (due to its new relationship with CMT), the Miss America Pageant is moving to Las Vegas. However, the new host, James Denton, is a Nashville native. Personally, I prefer they bring back Bert Parks to host it, but as he died in 1992 (about the same time the pageant did), I guess that’s not happening.

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Dave is caving: Dave Winer is enchanted with the Video iPod. I knew it was a slippery slope when he purchased that iBook a few months ago. As for me, I’m waiting for one of those iPod invisas.

Update: He went and did it.

Puppy tag means ecto user: I’ve been testing the desktop blogging tool, ecto, for the past few days (at Steve Rubel’s suggestion)
and because of a neat tagging feature it has, I’ve been including more
tags in recent posts. However, when you add a custom tag to the ecto
tag list, the field is pre-populated with the word “puppy” which you
type over with your new tag. As I quickly learned, it’s easy to post
something with the tag “puppy” included if you don’t watch out. It made
me wonder, how many of these Technorati citations are from careless ecto users like me.

Update: Ahh. I knew there would be a solution to this. Thanks. I still like the “puppy” tag.

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Google map shopping mashup: Google actually mashed this up themselves: A Web 2-ey Google map thingee that lets you map out your local shopping trip. And I say “you,” as I won’t be needing a map to the mall. I know where I’m going and how to type in the order.

Here’s how it works: Do a search on Froogle that combines a product and a zipcode (”ipod near 37205″). That gives you a map that lists where you can find the product, the price, and shows you how to get there.

Helpful hint: Search from the “Advanced Froogle Search” and you can limit your search in a wide variety ways related to price and location.It’s not flawless, however. I did a search on my zipcode and the product “iPod” and the top ten places I can purchase one does not include the Apple Store that is less than three miles from my house.

Haven’t had time to figure out: Do people just shop for one item at a time? What if I have ten things I want to shop for and want to have a map that combines them all? There will be dots all over the place. I guess that’s where the Advanced Search will come in handy. I’m sure there’s a hack for this, but I have neither the time nor interest to figure that one out. (Who knows? By this afternoon, someone will probably get VC funding to launch a Web 2.0 company built around mashing up the Froogle shopping map with a delivery service called, who knows, Kozmo 2.0, that will deliver the merchandise to your home.)

(AP Story about the shopping map.)

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