Scot Wingo’s eBay Strategies Blog informs us that eBay has added Google Checkout to its list of payment options.

Google just announced Google Checkout. At first glance it looks like a direct PayPal competitor. Fees seem close. PayPay charges 1.9% and $.30 per transaction. Google Checkout charges 2.0% and $.20 per transaction. There’s no sign up cost. They are close, that is unless you use AdWords to advertise your products.

I don’t know if this has any value beyond tickling my fancy for things map related. I just added the location for Mac The Web to GeoURL.

GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor’s blog, perhaps, or the web page [...]

What organization has the world’s largest repository of information? The U.S. Government, of course. But it’s spread out over so many departments and organizations that knowing where to look for something is daunting beyond belief.
My recent forays have included efforts to find nutritional information, tax forms and how to build a cold frame (that’s [...]

When Yahoo purchased photo-sharing site Flickr last year, the speculation about how the acquisition would affect the impending re-launch of Yahoo Photos immediately began. Now, the new Yahoo Photos has been unveiled — the beta went live Thursday afternoon (June 7, 2006).

The Rasterbator is a web service that creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size.

Create a customized calendar from your digital photographs

Create a calendar using your photographs. Know what day it is at a glance! Plan ahead! Impress your friends with your pre-cognitive powers! All you need is a photo from that fancy digital camera of yours. Heck, go nuts and make a whole year. Works with your photos [...]