Hewlett-Packard scientists found a company’s power and communication structure may be as simple as examining patterns of e-mail exchanges.

“Because [Email] can be captured and stored, many scientists are eyeing e-mail as a tool to quantify exchanges that in the past have taken place in hallways or meetings. The researchers in this study said e-mail flow could provide a window into the communications structure of an organization.”

This is pretty darn cool. Micah Alpern has released a Google BlogSphere search tool (w/source in PHP) that will search across all the sites whose RSS feeds are found in your OPML list.

I think Micah describes it best:
“Until the semantic web arrives the best method we have to understand a users point of view is to examine the RSS feeds they subscribe to. I currently read RSS feeds from over 70 websites. This list of RSS feeds includes friends, publications, and domain expects; all people whose opinions I value. If Googling my weblog is like searching by backup brain, then searching all sites in my RSS news aggregator is like searching the brains of people I respect and find interesting.” (link via Sebastien Paquet)

A collection of Google Hacks on ResearchBuzz. (via Slashdot)

An interesting story on Wired news about finding open web-based databaes using Google (via Scripting)

Dan Gillmor: “Google … has purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals.”

I’m sure this is going to be interesting.

An interesting tool for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

“During the update, which takes several days, the 3 Google servers display different results. Whilst the results vary from server to server, they are said to be “dancing”, hence the name Google Dance.”

Heh, I wish this was available when I was in school, “One other possible use of LSI is for an automated essay writer. Given a big enough body of knowledge about a certain topic, an LSI program could take your homework, mark it and even suggest areas you haven’t covered.” (via Ben Hammersley)

“Juice is an alternate browser with built-in support for Google’s search API. With Juice, you don’t just search for information, you gather information.” (via ScriptingNews)

Looks interesitng. Although, I have similary functionality right within this Blog by integrating the Google API with post meta data

“Googlert is an experimental free service which keeps you updated on what the web is saying about you, your products or your interests. It does this by performing regular Google searches on your behalf and sending an email alert containing any new results that appear.”

“Froogle is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information
about products for sale online. By focusing entirely on product search, Froogle
applies the power of Google’s search technology to a very specific task:
locating stores that sell the item you want to find and pointing you directly to
the place where you can make a purchase.”

I wonder if this is available via Google’s web services API … it would be interesting to expand on Calin Uioreanu’s Amazon PHP API powered Simplest-Shop idea with Froogle.