Interesting free app from Microsoft, the ‘Location Finder.’ Does a lookup of your location based on your WiFi access point or IP lookup and displays your position on MSN Virtual Earth.

(via Charlie Owen’s Retrosight).

Interesting commentary and insight on Longhorn UI. Sean Alexander of MSFT takes note of a positive report from eWeek on the just released beta.

David Coursey at eWeek wrote:

Windows Vista is the best-looking OS Microsoft has ever produced and is competitive with, and in some ways better, than Apple’s recently-introduced Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger.

That’s great. That’s super. But one would expect a beta product far from general release with close to two years of development left to be at least on par with a shipping product to tens of millions of users. The UI changes are spiffy in Vista – PC Magazine has a good overview on the UI changes alone.

(via Addicted to Digital Media)

Could someone please buy the man a plasma TV? Doesn’t he have, like, a situation room or something with a hi-def feed from the nose cone of the freaking shuttle available to him? Sad, sad, sad. (Via Engadget.)

If you don’t want to make the same mistake as George above, MSNBC.com has a fabulous Flash application to review the Discovery launch. It’s a user-selected, sychronized, multi-cam app where you pick your camera positions to watch the launch. Very slick execution. (Via LostRemote.)

Om Malik today takes note of AOL’s new partnership with Feedster for their new ‘MyAOL‘ – as he notes, Yahoo must be thinking that’s soooo 1999 ;-). Interesting to see a tool like this on AOL; bringing RSS closer to the massses…

“America Online is one step closer in its bid to transform itself from a dial-up ISP into a content powerhouse. The company has just announced MyAOL (it must be 1999, Yahoo people are thinking.) The most exciting part of the news is that they are taking RSS mainstream. Yup – right out of the elites into the AOLplanet. Yahoo, Ask Jeeves (via Bloglines) and supposedly Google are already making RSS part of their future, and now even AOL has signed up.”

He also notes:

“The new site will also allow folks to subscribe and read RSS feeds. This is also a good day for RSS spammers, who can now find gullible clickers amongst the AOL hordes. Going back to that step-closer remark, they are still amillion miles away from where they need to be.”

(Via Om Malik’s Broadband Blog.)