The AOP has published links to streaming versions of the keynotes from its recent conference which I blogged about last week. It’s particularly worth watching Tim O’Reilly and Carolyn McCall.

Forrester’s Charlene Li gives her take on Google’s acquisition of YouTube. In her view and astute move and not over priced.

According to WSJ.com Google’s deal to acquire YouTube for $1.65bn in stock could be announced as early as tonight. As the 19-month-old company has just 67 employees, that $24.6m for each of them (assuming equal shares)!

Neil Armstrong may have thought he fluffed his lines, but an Australian researcher has now found the infamous “a” which was thought missing from “a small step for man; a giant step for mankind”. Gives a whole new slant to machine intelligence.

Simon Robinson from ICIS has just launched blog on biofuels. ICIS have being producing quite a few alternative product pricing reports lately and this blog is an attempt to gather together parties interested in alternative fuel around a blog. It could just be the next big thing…

The current issue of Wired has a feature on Ray Ozzie, the man who will take over the spiritual guidance of Microsoft from Bill Gates next summer.

Internet search leader Google is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube for about $1.6 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. (from Wired News)

I have just found out that Amazon launched a grocery store in the US in May in beta. It may have been well recorded elsewhere but it passed me by, anyway. Jeff Bezos’ commentary on the project is here.

Charlie Redmayne founder of mykindaplace and monkeyslum. Some statistics:-

• Teens spend more time online than watching TV.
• The younger you are the less TV you watch.
• 51% of 10 year olds have a mobile phone.
• £1 in £10 of teen money is spent on ringtones.
• According to the IAB many 10-18’s have been online since before they could read.

He says his two sites have three components – editorial, social networking and UGC.

Ben Perreau:

What kids want:-

• simple
• quick
• multiple applications at once
• learning through doing
• sociability

What kids think:-

• content and technology is the same
• they deserve respect