Obscure Google feature update: If you have a personalized Google home page, the “weather” option now displays four days instead of two. While this is not /. or tech.memeorandum newsworthy, it’s a helpful feature to have if you’re going to be in several cities over several days.

Wikiambulance chasing: Isn’t it rich? Send in the clowns. By the way, I think it’s a nice touch that the Wikipedia class action website includes Google ads promoting other class action lawsuits.

While anyone can sue anybody for anything (trust me), how hard is it to click on this link at the bottom of every page on Wikipedia?

(via: Nashville is Talking)

Media Play has to go inside: Its parent has decided to not let Media Play anymore. The stores, including three in Nashville, will all close by the end of January.

Kaboodling: I don’t really recall why, but a while back I set up a kaboodle.com page (www.kaboodle.com/rex). It’s sorta like del.icio.us but with a much more attractive interface.

On second thought, it’s nothing like del.icio.us except that it’s a way to organize and display bookmarked web pages. In my example, I’ve been organizing links to articles and resources I run across that have handy tips on a wide range of activities: office, business travel, memory, organization, research and studying (for students and learners of all ages). Kaboodle has several features that allow the user to customize the image and copy that accompany the bookmark. Again, they’ve come at bookmarking from a totally different direction than del.icio.us so it’s hard to directly compare the two.

Observation: An ad-free version would be more likely to generate what I think should be called Network Effect 2.0 — rough translation: a valuation of a Web 2.0 “thing” based on the number of people using it.

Second observation: The only people who think that “number of users” is a bogus metric on which to judge the value of a startup are those who have never been successful at attracting 300,000 recurring users (or 10,000, or 5,000).

Third observation: I think the number of users in the first six months of anything is a questionable metric (a new restaurant, for instance). However, the rate of new users during months 12-18 would be a better indication that something is more than a fad or gimmick.

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Rumor mill: (From Think Secret): Expect an Intel-based iBook early next year. It will have a 13.3 inch screen and replace te current 14.1 inch model.

Quote:

The 13.3-inch widescreen iBook is said to sport a WXGA resolution of 1280×720, serving up about 15 percent more pixels than the current 14.1-inch model.

Observation: A better format for watching downloaded episodes of Lost.

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Paul Conley asks: “Why are so many (business-to-business online media) products so bad?”.

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Moving on Up: (From Reuters): Yahoo and Six Apart said on Sunday Yahoo will be the preferred supplier of Movable Type for small businesses…”This is going to be our recommended (sales) channel for small business,” (Anil Dash) said.”

Observation: For those who parse press releases: “preferred” and “recommended” are words used when you don’t want to (or can’t) say, “exclusive.”

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