Google Android Developer Challenge round 2 is giving out some serious cash; $250,000 for the overall winner with $100,000 for first place in 10 different categories. Far as I can tell eligibility is world wide. §

Google Web Elements are Google Gadgets (what the rest of the web calls widgets) and nothing more. Move along. §

Not at all convinced by TwitterData. Another geeks solution. It takes several pages to explain. §

Uzbl is a web-browser for VIM addicts. The rest of us should just move along. §

More state censorship of the media in South Africa. §

At first I was blown away by the idea of running Android apps. on Ubuntu but quickly came to realise that really all it is is an emulator, which we already have in the Android SDK. But then I remembered a conversation I had with some co-workers in which we thought being able to run iPhone apps. in Mac OS would be handy. The iPhone app. emulator is quite decent and you’d really just need to tweak some launch and persistence systems to make it workable. What mobile apps. would make the transition though? Which would be worthwhile on your desktop? Going through my iPhone I found these; reQall, myAnalytics, Convertbot, Stocks, Weather, iStat, Twecipe, Surf Report, Shazam, Deliveries, Phases, Sky+, Slicehost Pro and many games. Some of these have desktop versions but the mobile versions are superior or serve a different purpose. §

“Because you don’t know what I feel inside me. You don’t know the hurt I am.” §

28 years ago the first software patent was awarded. Interestingly the programmer who applied for the patent became a lawyer to make the best case for his patent. He then went on to become a patent attorney. §

People the world over are losing their jobs, their homes and their dignity in a financial crisis based on over-inflation and yet today we stand up and say that Facebook, a social-network website, is valued at $10 billion. §

Microsoft are spending $80million to market their new search engine called Bing. Good luck with that lads. §