There seems to be quite a bit of development going on in the Instant Messaging arenas on a variety of different fronts. You’ve got your individual clients that are always releasing updates. Third party clients that aggregate the individual platforms to a single interface and buddy list. Then you have the website applications that aggregate the individuals to a web page interface with no software to download.

imo.im is the latter and have provided a very simple interface to combine your IM clients onto the web. I tried it out and it does a good job of quickly connecting to your …read more

Jake just let me know about a new site called Scour that lets you search the web like you normally would but adds a few different things to the mix:

Get results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN all together
Rate search results instantly
Get rewarded by searching with Scour

Why does it seem to be so hard for me to think about using any search engine other than Google as my default? I’m sure that’s exactly what Google is wanting me to think though isn’t it?
I like the concept, but one thing I immediately noticed that I don’t like is …read more