Google is doing it. Twine. Twitter. Delicious. They offer a version of it. Yahoo and Microsoft are discussing it. What is it? Personal search. It’s being bandied about as the next big thing. A game changer for search engines, search engine marketing and search engine optimization. How does it work? Social bookmarking sites, like Twine and Delicious are straightforward: sites you bookmark lead you to other sites other people have bookmarked that are similar. It’s not so much a search as an exploration of similar sites. A community-based approach to finding what you want. That’s not the newest twist on personal search (more…)

The Asus eee PC started something. Who knew something so small could usher in a revolution? Now everyone makes a NetBook, a small notebook that runs a Linux or a light version of Windows XP, on a screen that might not be any larger the 800 x 480 or, more the norm now, 1024×600. Dell just released one to great reviews. HP, Toshiba, a ton of other manufacturers all sell one or more. Liliputing is a blog that focuses on the new netbooks, and has reviews of almost all the models (60+ currently).

The operating system is not all that important—Linux seems a little faster and peppier, less resource intensive—because all the OS’s run a browser with Flash and javascipt and Java and work just fine with almost all Web sites. (Some sites are very poorly programmed by sloppy programmers who don’t follow standards, or only test on one browser and in general favor what they see as easy money/largest market share.) (more…)