Neomeme

Here’s a riddle for you: What’s invisible to those inside it but painfully obvious to outsiders?

Answer: The A-List of bloggers.

Recently, there’s been a lot of criticism coming from the likes of Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis, Steve Rubel and Loren Feldman of the concept of an “A-list” of top celebrity bloggers. They all agree that either there is no A-list, or the A-list is not important, and that A-listers are not special and that anyone can join at any time, if only the rest of us weren’t so damn lazy. They’re all wrong. Read more »

I bet you use Google to search the Internet multiple times every day. Good old reliable Google, which has not changed it main user interface in years. You would think that all of the extremely creative Google engineers would spend some time designing exciting Web 2.0-ish new interfaces for Google, and at the very least posting them in Google Labs for us early adopters to play with. Alas, no such luck. Google Labs has plenty of interesting projects, but no additional features for the core search product. Oh, and by the way, have you heard of this new search engine called SearchMash? It looks pretty advanced, chock-full of Ajax, highlighting Wikipedia results, keyword suggestions and more. And the search results are pretty good, too. What is this wonderful new search engine? A stealth startup? A private venture? No,SearchMash is actually a Google research project so secretive it is not even listed in Google Labs. Read more »