here are some interesting stats from google’s “reader” blog:

% of errors	Error description
15.6%	Input claims to be UTF-8 but contains invalid characters.
14.9%	Opening and ending tags mismatch
13.9%	An undefined entity is used (e.g.   in an XML document without importing the HTML set)
7.8%	Documented expected to begin with a start tag, but no < was found
5.7%	Disallowed control characters present
5.5%	Extra content at the end of the document
4.2%	Unterminated entity reference (missing semi-colon)
4.2%	Unquoted attribute value
3.8%	Premature end of data in tag (truncated feed)
3.3%	Naked ampersand (should be represented as &amp;)
2.1%	XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
1.8%	Namespace prefix is used but not defined
0.75%	Comment not terminated
0.64%	Attribute without value
0.17%	Unescaped < not allowed in attributes values
0.11%	Malformed numerical entity reference
0.11%	Unsupported/invalid encoding
0.10%	Comment must not contain ‘–’
0.10%	Attribute defined more than once
0.07%	Char out of allowed range
0.03%	Comment not terminated
0.02%	Sequence ]]> not allowed in content

According to Digg google has released a del.icio.us‘esque bookmarking service

Access your bookmarks from any computer. Supports labels, stars, and notes.

I love del.icio.us and dont plan on switching anytime soon, but for the heck of it I created a bookmarklet to add the current page to your google bookmarks.

drag this link to your toolbar (works in safari, dont know about others):

Add To Google Bookmarks

just saw this

from: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html

Gmail Mobile
Now you can access your Gmail account from your mobile phone or device. Just point your phone’s web browser to http://m.gmail.com. Your Gmail account stays synched, whether you access it from the web or the mobile interface. It’s easy to use and it’s free (but yes, your wireless plan could still charge you).

It also has these cool features:
• Automatically optimizes the interface for the phone you’re using
• Opens the attachments you receive in messages, including photos, Microsoft Word documents and .pdf files
• Lets you reply by call to people whose phone numbers are in your Gmail Contacts list

When Google bought blogging software pioneer Blogger last year, it probably didn’t expect that its new technology would be used to goose the page rankings of porn sites.
But that’s exactly what’s happening, as an outfit called CyberQuest has recently set up a few dozen cross-linked, porn-themed Blogspot blogs (powered by Blogger), all of which link to three of its for-profit porn sites. According to a couple of experienced bloggers, the purpose behind the cross-linking strategy is to artificially raise the Google rankings of the three porn sites.

[read the article @wired]

via boing boing

Michael Buffington has started a topical blog on asbestos, a subject he’s not all that interested in, because there’s a high pay-per-click fee being paid by asbestos-lawsuit lawyers via Google’s AdWords program. He finds his material through a keyword search on Google News

Lawyers are paying anywhere from $15-100 per click through on Google ads. The second part of this big experiment is to see if I can capture some of that click through revenue while still providing a somewhat valid service to people who might arrive by search results.

I say somewhat valid, because despite the fact that I read every article and summarize the article in every blog entry, the speed at which it all happens seems too good to be true. Quite literally, the current 20 or so articles on the site took me about an hour of cumulative time to produce. Granted, I’m making it easier on my self by allowing Google to tell me where the news is, but that’s the point of their service right? Also, I’m not expert. But over the course of just 20 blog entries, I might know more than the average Joe about asbestos.

[read the article]

Looks like Google is pushing ATOM (a standard that ‘competes’ with RSS) with the launch of the Google Groups2 beta. They have added ATOM feeds for thousands of Usenet groups.