Source: CNet News
Internet search leader Google is testing a system that aims to speed purchases online but bears no resemblance to the popular PayPal payments service of Web auctioneer eBay, Google’s chief executive said Thursday.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight … 
Mindmaps have completely changed the way I record and structure information related to my business and I know a LOT of other successful Internet Marketers use them too …
You can read more about MindMaps here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map
FreeMind is a completely free mind-mapping software program, which is under constant development and is now rivalling the commercial offerings in terms of ease of use and features …
If you’re looking for a way to organise your thoughts and projects, think about switching over to mindmaps and if you do, take a look at FreeMind …
Here’s the URL: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
As ever, let me know what you think …
A big hello to all the new subscribers and who’ve joined since I was last in touch …
I hope you and your family are all healthy and well …
It’s been “all go†here and so I thought I’d better give you an update with what’s been going on, since I’ve been quiet for a while … which is unheard of for me, at least that’s what my wife says! 
A couple of people have asked about the mysterious project I’ve spoken about previously …
Source: BBC
Hi there … I hope you had a good Xmas …
So, back to the real world now, unfortunately …
A new security issue has been discovered with Windows operating systems related to how they display Windows Metafiles shown on a webpage.
It seems as though it’s possible to sneak into computers and install spyware - even if the machine is running a completely up-to-date patched version of Windows XP SP2 and other Windows version may be vunerable too …
Check out the link above for more info …
Via Digg:
Rent the web. The whole web. From Amazon.com
Amazon.com owns Alexa (a small piece of the vast Amazon.com empire). As part of their many services, they keep a small backup of the internet, about 100 terabytes or so. You can rent that database and index it now, if you want.
Here’s the full story:
http://battellemedia.com/archives/002116.php
Right now it’s prohibitively expensive to crawl through the entire database, but not if you wanted to search and retrieve certain data …
I’m not sure exactly what this could be used for, but an interesting development nonetheless …