I tuned in to the world of podcasts a little late as far as aggregators go I'm ashamed to admit.

1. Email on the Road

Forget wasted time while driving - now people are reading their emails on the road. No more inconvenient squinting at your PDA or mobile phone - these days it's all displayed in HUD realtime on the windshield of your car! Think of the increased productivity!

Google's Gmail is now known around the World as the best free webmail solution - especially thanks to it's storage size and security of data.

Around 60 Gmail users are not quite so happy with the service anymore, after logging in to find all of their emails prior to Dec 18 had vanished.

It's often a good indicator of what's buzzing amongst the everyday folk when the big data crunchers like Google release a summary of the Top Searches for the year and so on. It's nothing an experienced webhead shouldn't already know, but it can give a nice overview of trends.

This year however, Google raised a few eyebrows with its summary of the Top 10 Searches in Google for 2006:

While I'd consider myself fairly well versed in the social media world, I guess the sheer number of Web 2.0 startups, and shiny bubblegum-esque social sites can all get a bit confusing to keep up with.

Neil Patel has done it again - he's the master of creating linkbait articles, and his latest creation How to become a top 100 Digg user is no exception.

Something a little different to my usual web ramblings, I just saw this video of this cool robot running around all over the place, over all sorts of terrain, and even correcting it's balance when booted by one of the researchers!

Ah yes, as I suspected, it's being developed as a robotic pack mule for the US military. You gotta love endless R&D budgets!

I've recently started playing with MSN adCenter, to see what PPC traffic is all about. My background till this point has primarily been with content sites, online communities, and various other organic traffic driven websites.

As you will have noticed, I've added a row of social bookmarking links at the bottom of each post - something I've been meaning to add for a while now. So I headed on over to browse the many user contributed modules for Drupal, , to find the inevitable social bookmarks module.

Sure enough, along came this little beauty of a module - service_links

You can choose from a range of popular social bookmarks to display, including del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, ma.gnolia.com, Newsvine, Furl, Google, Yahoo, Technorati, IceRocket and PubSub.

I believe it's also easy to add any other social bookmarking sites that you might like to feature.

Naturally the URL/title of each post is automatically formatted correctly, and displayed as either an image, link, or combination of the two.

It was a 30 sec install/setup as well, which is always nice. Enjoy.

A basic privacy policy is fast becoming an absolute must have for most websites in the commercial internet space.