Now that news of Google Payment Corp is public, it's time for rampant speculation, such as: Will people trust Google to be the infrastructure key to micropayments? They're in an excellent position to provide the technology.

Doesn't that headline read like computer-generated nonsense? And yet, it's true. via [Jepstone.net]

Dang! Two weeks before I'm doing a NY-Boston trip, too.

Funniest IRC transcript EVER. via Eric Gunnerson

I can't talk about it yet, but can you guess what this SmartTag does?

According to Mary Jane Foley, the Monad shell is being unlinked from Longhorn. Maybe it will debut in Exchange 12, maybe not. Now I'm really ticked off. Monad is a command-line shell that, like UNIX shells, is based on a “pipes-and-filters” architecture in which functionality is assembled by recombining a …

VSTO for Outlook Beta just became available on MS Downloads. I can't wait to take a look.

Oh man, I wish Windows Smartphones had this.

Just got off the phone with David Treadwell, Corporate Vice President of the .NET Developer Platform. Naturally, we started and ended the talk with the blogosphere's current buzz about ".NET 2.0 Breaks Apps" and "Longhorn Isn't Being Built On Managed Code." Along the way, we touched upon languages, optimization …

Tim Bray says that of \\(96B in gross revenue, IBM's consulting services earned \\)46B.

This is one of those datapoints that could fit into a couple of preconceived notions: supporting the OS business model (“The money's in consulting / support, not software sales!“), damning the OS business model (“If they used …

Isn't that taking “let the punishment fit the crime,” a step too far?