‘Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the sphere
Not a blogger was whining
Like headlights with no deer
The Beta Boys had spread
Each to his own state
Where many gifts and gadgets
Were his to await
Would it be an unlocked G1
Or Kindle from on high
We dreamt of DS Lights
So tiny and nigh
But behold,
Though the Beta Base is empty […]

Techcrunch mentioned last week that Google’s Toolbar was going to start redirecting 404 pages to show a Google search box. Well, it looks like this “feature” shipped with a few bugs. Unfortunately, the redirection happens if a page fails OR if any of the iframes in the page fail to load. […]

The fine folks over at Adroll (including our own Brendan Doms) just launched into private beta today. Adroll is a really interesting concept for buying and selling advertising. I got a chance to play with it a few weeks ago while it was still in alpha and I was very impressed. […]