Author name: S Anand

Google has an image search with 150 million images. (While on the topic of Google, try this search on dead.long.live.)

The public preview of IE 6 is out. The revolutionary feature is smart tags. I think the image toolbar is a pretty neat idea too.

PC World’s Best of the Web uncovers gems like Safeweb (like Anomymizer.com but free), MegaPixel (digital cameras), Betanews, ArtistDirect (music search) and Multimedia Library.

Easel is a GUI for Linux written by people from Apple. Hopefully, it will really bring Linux to the masses.

Sony Entertainment’s site has an archive of broadband content, including trailers, Sony TV interviews, etc. Pretty good!

The Webby nominees in broadband include Heavy and Yahoo Financevision.

Yahoo has come up with a ‘conversations‘ site. Will it pick up? (BTW, the new version of Yahoo Messenger supports webcams, message archives, and file sharing.)

Among all concepts I have encountered on the Web, this one is the most intruiging. Ideosphere has created a futures market for ideas. You put a claim on this website, and people can buy/sell coupons based on these ideas. When the claim becomes true/false, these coupons increase/decrease in value. Of course, no real money is involved — it’s just a score. Very interesting, nevertheless, to get a feel of what people think. (There’s a similar exchange for Bollywood.)

The new GNU C Compiler GCC 3.0 includes a Java compiler.

Google just goes on. They’re working on voice search now.