Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has it SO right in his article, Think Before you Voicemail. I could not agree more! Voicemail is a horrible relic of the 90s from an era before everyone had…

This is why I love BRAN, the tech podcast by Aussie journos Angus Kidman, Nathan Taylor and Roulla Yiaccoumi: a quote from the latest episode (90): "Every site Sensis has rolled out is … let's not mince words… TOTAL SHIT…"

I…

One of the people who commented on my post of last week about how the PR industry engages with journalists was David from Webmenu.com.au. If I don't know a commenter I like to check out their website, and I was…

I think I am in heaven…

http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/

Also, I got all web 2.0 and started a Facebook profile. Facebook seems like Myspace for non-retards… no flashing animated GIF backgrounds or teenagers trying to out-emo each other. I really like it!

It's interesting, I…

… because A-list bloggers work harder than I do.

Nice.

http://www.google.com/ig/cp

Now you can customise what appears on your Google Personal homepage when you access it via your mobile.

Via DownloadSquad.

Opera's grand plan for widgets has become a bit clearer with the news that it plans to make its widgets run on mobile phones, TVs, car stereos … anything that can have a screen and a simple processor embedded.

This…

OK, I admit the headline is inflammatory: internet sync may not be better than sliced bread. But it is such a useful feature in software that supports it, the mystery is why more developers aren't doing it.

I don't believe that…

I'm evidently not the only one who has been scratching his head in bemusement at some of the names emerging for Web 2.0 sites. iLaugh.com has provided a handy translator for what Web 2.0 names really mean.

Some of my favourites from…

It only took me a few days to decide to switch my calendar from Outlook to Google's brilliant new Calendar.

It has always been a pain accessing my work calendar remotely — we're lucky enough at ACP to have the…

Via Techcrunch.

It's not just your email address that's being sold to spammers, it seems. Your phone number, address, job title … it's all for sale, if someone has 'dobbed you in'.

A new web startup called Jigsaw buys and sells…

Here's one for Phil Sweeney at Whirlpool, self-proclaimed hater of "Web 2.0" hype.

From the Ajaxian blog:

We would like to alert you that there’s been a patch release to Web 2.0 to address some minor bugs and address valuable new…

UPDATE | OK, I noticed this morning that "Nikki Neal 19" is the most popular video on Google Videos. So I bring you this potted summary: Nikki's greatest fear is of bees. Her goal for this year is to get closer to…

If you have a huge LCD monitor (mumble, grumble, envious look) you'll want to check out these magnificent high dynamic range photos on Flickr. Your monitor wants to be filled with one of these as a desktop wallpaper.

And, if you're like…

Today's announcement of Google Desktop Search 3 and subsequent press release from the Electronic Frontiers Foundation warning people not to use it if they don't want the contents of their computer mirrored at Google has sparked some very interesting debate.

GDS3 offers…