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Seeqpod is cool.

Basically, it’s a music search engine and flash-based player. Apparently they don’t believe there are any copyright issues as they don’t host the tracks themselves but just link to them.

It works really well.

For example, I really like the music on this cool Sprint ad, so I loaded up seeqpod and did a search for “architecture in helsinki”. Sure enough, this was one of the ninety-four results that came back:

They even have links to the video (which is very cool.)

There is an interesting article on Read/WriteWeb by Sean Ammirati called Google’s Potential Vulnerability - An Open Ad Network. In it, Sean suggets that, despite Google’s huge revenues, they could be vulnerable to the fact that 37% of that revenue comes from ads delivered on sites they don’t control.

While they do have contracts with some of the larger online properties that leverage their ad network, even in that case those networks could switch when the contract comes up for renewal.

Google seems invincible at the moment and Yahoo and Microsoft aren’t making much progress competing against them head-on. But the way to compete against a monopoly is to change the rules of the game. This is what MySQL did with databases and it is what Openads is going to do with the online advertising industry.

Google is still a disruptive force in many areas but it needs to be careful that it’s own disruptive business models are not distrupted by some startup…

Must…keep…studying

I love Google Maps. So many clever people keep coming up with cool ideas for the API. This one shows what will be under water when sea levels rise. Looks like we’ll be ok at 7m but Kathryn’s office will have to move…

Where would we be without Google video? We’d certainly have fewer farting pig, awsome pen tricks and cool fighter plane videos to waste our time.

Remember ten years ago the web used to be riddled with sites like this?

Good to see there are still crappy home made web sites out there with lots of nasty tiled backgrounds and flashing animations.