On March 13, Bill Gates pronounced that "natural user interfaces" (facial and voice recognition) will be integrated with our daily lives within 10 years. While many of us already realized this, Gates has now put his signature on the prediction. 

comScore, Inc., today released an update of holiday season e-commerce spending for the first 57 days of the 2007 holiday season (November 1 – December 27). Nearly $28 billion has been spent online during the season-to-date, marking a 19-percent gain versus the corresponding days last year.

The eight candidates vying to be the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 elections answered questions submitted by CNN and YouTube users in a debate Wednesday night.

2 out of 5 Downloaders are Willing to Pay an Average of $6 for “In Rainbows” Album.  U.S. Downloaders are Willing to Pay More than International Counterparts.

We know all about user-generated content, masses of users contributing to burgeoning Web corpus. It’s a manifestation of Web 2.0, the participatory Net, which companies like Google (YouTube), Yahoo (Flickr), Fox (MySpace), etc. are feasting on. In parallel, users are contributing a potentially far more lucrative Web currency–metadata about themselves. It’s the currency that will help Facebook grow into its $15 billion valuation. In addition, users are also contributing structured (meta) data about data, which will help the semantic Web to flower.