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A friend suggested The Good Blogs for promoting my blog. I like the concept. You register for the service and embed their plugin in your blog. The plugin displays a list of blogs that are registered for their service. It helps in blog promotion/discovery. They are still in beta and I have one thing I would like added to their plugin.

• Customizable UI. Their plugin as it stands today sticks out like a sore thumb. It looks out of place on most blogs.

Other than that it is a cool service. Good job guys.

I just found out that Google sells a Google Search Appliance I was surprised that it gets away with the prices it charges. This thing is nothing but a box which indexes documents you point it to and then lets you perform searches on it. The only cool thing this appliance does is that in indexes 220 different file formats.

Integrating everything is nice and all but charging $30,000+ per box is thievery. The software is trivial to write and the hardware doesn’t need to be extraordinary. The Google trademark plays a BIG factor here.

I am surprised there is no open source project out there which aims to tackle this.

Watch this video. It’s pretty cool. I’ve seen trick shots before but this is creative.