I'm still digging out from my recent India trip, here are a few bits and pieces...

Here is a hot search engine that gives old meaning to that term: http://www.MsDewey.com

(Hat Tip Dida Kutz)

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I recently spoke at an event organized by SVASE, the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs  and I can heartily recommend its programs. Co-founder Mark Addison set up the lunchtime session and I found it interesting talking with entrepreneurs who hope to leverage blogging in their businesses.

ACTEVA:CXO Leadership Forum - Blogger Confidential: A Conversation ...

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My buddy David Galbraith, co-founder of Moreover and co-author of RSS 1.0, just launched his second Wists shopping blog. Wists is a universal wish-list, with a click or two users can save images of things they like or might want to buy.

Dave's first Wists product is Cribcandy. His second, PopGloss, "covers women's clothing and accessories, an eclectic mix of quirky and fun or innovative design - fashion without the attitude. It has a similar feel to Cribcandy, lots of pictures, few words, updated dozens of times a day and with the ability to save pictures and links to anything you like with one click."

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Giovanni Rodriguez officially launched his PR agency HubbubPR, which is a great name. Social media PR is his focus and he says things are going very well. Here is a recent piece he wrote about social media in the enterprise.

"The essay is based on a survey I conducted of 40-plus publicly available case studies.  My thesis:  the business benefits of social media are becoming quite apparent, but the pressure to stand out -- and do something different -- is mounting," says Giovanni. Read it here:

http://hubbub.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/peer_pressure.html

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Coming up at Stanford University is Web 2.0 Wave in the US and Poland. I'll be there to check it out on November 29 at Stanford's Clark Auditorium. Book your tickets here:

ACTEVAWeb 2.0 Wave in the U.S. and Poland User Contribution, Data Analytics, and Monetization

Clay Bullwinkel helped to organize the event along with the US-Polish Trade Council. Clay says: "Did you know Poles are much more Web 2.0-oriented than other people? Check out Wikipedia’s home page. The quantity of Polish articles ranks 4^th after English, German and French. And this is with a much lower percent of PC ownership and broadband connections."

Clay says that Poles continue to win world champion computer coding events. Case in point: Marek Cygan, who beat out programmers from IBM, Microsoft and Baylor University.

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Interesting evening at Sun Microsystems' media dinner Thursday night about eco issues. This was the first time I had heard of PG&E's incentive program for data centers running virtualization software. PG&E's Mark Bramfitt, High Tech, Biotech & Health Care Segment Supervisor, said that by using renewable sources of energy and by encouraging businesses and residential customers to save power, PG&E has saved the equivalent of 25 power stations.

I mentioned that PG&E should wire up all the treadmills and stationary bikes in all the gyms in California. That way, it could pump up the power grid, we could even get paid for working out, (or our gyms would pay us to go there! (Hat tip Elsa Butler). And our healthcare service providers would provide us with big cost breaks, we'd be independent of Middle East oil, and we would all look damn good

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