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A week and a half ago at the Amazon Independent Online Seller Conference, during a Web Services presentation, someone asked if the Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) was intended to compete with PayPal. The question’s intent was pretty clear: Does Amazon have something in the works to compete with PayPal? The Amazon execs gave a beautiful response that any politician would be proud of: no, none of these [web services systems up on the Powerpoint slide] are intended to compete with PayPal.

Then what do we find a week later? Amazon Payments.

Nice work, Amazon execs. Transparency and frankness, with just a hint of deception.

Yes Cuil is brand new, so I guess I should cut it some slack, but relevancy is everything in search. Who cares how many pages you have indexed if you can’t pull up the most useful ones?

It’s like having warehouses full of file cabinets and having to dig through drawers to find the file you’re looking for.

Although TechCrunch points out, “Cuil does a good job of guessing what we’ll want next and presents that in the top right widget. That means Cuil saves time for more research based queries.”

Virgin Galactic Launches the White Knight 2

Virgin Galactic is Sir Richard Branson’s latest venture which should put the rich into outer space where they can no longer harm us, the poor.

I hope that happens some day: a stratified society where the rich live in space and rule over us.