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• WP-GotLucky: Google Search Query Plugin Updated Finally updated the WP-GotLucky download to the one I’ve been using, and David Seah fixed up for me. This version has RSS feeds by default (the previous one only did email) and automatically puts the most recent search queries in your Admin Dashboard.
• Google Won’t Let Me Sign Out  Quicktime version
• Free & Open Is Its Own Lock-in A decade ago, one of the very first places I found that offering free websites gave everyone access to the same images directory. You could upload your own images, but then everyone else could use them as well. Goofy, questionable, but free. I’ve been hosting with Joyent for more than 3 years, purchased 3 different ‘lifetime’
• Web 2.Over: Google Buys FeedBurner Consistent with my hypothesis that Google is a social gesture company, they bought FeedBurner (a company finally reaching its only exit strategy, Thank god). Four Predictions: Six Apart now pulls auto-FeedBurning from TypePad blogs due to conflict of interest. Google incorporates FeedBurners metrics into Google Analytics and sends the rest of FeedBurner to play with Dodgeball. More than
• Google Checkout First Impression Podcast I walked through Google Checkout this morning and recorded my initial reaction as a podcast (wherein I curse a little). Marshall Kirkpatrick at Techcrunch brings up the same issues.