Announced today on the del.icio.us blog. In hindsight it was only a matter of time before one of the big three bought them.

Looksmart owns Furl. Who’s next, I wonder?

I’ve just finished setting up a little experiment on sharing recommendations. The basic idea is to publish an ongoing list of the “really good stuff”… the shortlist of things you view as worthwhile enough to recommend to other people.

Check it out and leave a comment with your thoughts. Useful? Wrongheaded? Know of another tool that does the same thing, or achieves the same goal in a better way? Let me know.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt coauthored a Newsweek article with Berkeley professor Hal Varian on getting the most out of knowledge workers. As an ex-Microsoftie, it makes interesting and eerily familiar reading for me. Here’s a comparison of Schmidt’s golden rules with the way things work at Microsoft:
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