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The Zune will be here zoon. Maybe even before noon. If Apple & Microsoft were to merge, they’d create a device called the iZune. How nice would that be? Very nice!

Although the Zune is not available, you can already pre-order the Zune. How zweet it is. However, lest you expect the path of pre-ordering to be well paved, it is not. There is a small pricing ditch along the way.

Amazon.com & Walmart.com are battling it out in a fierce price-figure fight.

Walmart.com has it for $249.94. Amazon.com will give it to you for five-cents more at $249.99. If you’re looking to buy about a million units, the price disparity can make or break your piggy bank.

Tough choice? Not really. Amazon.com will ship it for free. Walmart.com charges approximately $5 for shipping. So, do yourself the favor; part with the additional five-cents on the Zune at Amazon.com. Then get it shipped for free!

It’s Saturday night. I showered and no longer smell like a chicken rooster. And this makes me very happy. No longer smelling like living poultry.

Just thought it was important (very) to let you know, that Piperlime has made an appearance on the Gap.com homepage! Under the category Gap Inc. brands, there is a link to piperlime.com. Wicked!

The order of the brands are puzzling, just like everything else about Gap Inc. Piperlime, although not even live yet, is listed first, followed by Old Navy etc. (Don’t be lazy; just look at the screen shot!)

Also noticed the gapcanada.com. Will discuss that later.

Not sure if this is news to you. It is news to me. And it’s my blog. So I’m pretty much calling the shots around here.

I just noticed that USA Today has their shopping/marketplace section outsourced to shopping.com aka dealtime.

It’s interesting to me how these relationships are structured. USA Today, a Gannet company, uses shopping.com for marketplace & Yahoo for search.

Meanwhile, Scripps, another media company, is the proud owner of another shopping comparison site, shopzilla.com.

How tragic! The site was so young. Just born. I just visited suttonpiercefederline.com and the site is out of whack!

The following blog post is not endorsed by any political party; Democrat, Republic or Liebermanic (center). In fact, this has absolutely nothing to do with politics.

This post is dedicated to all the Gmail users out there. Those who publicly acknowledged using Google for email and those who prefer to keep this information under wraps (Terry Semel, we know you probably use Gmail. We don’t blame you.)

Gmail is a hot email provider. I vouch for it. I love all the room and the archive feature. Thanks to Google search, I am able to archive all my emails and then search for a specific topic at a later date.

There is however a hiccup in the Gmail enabled search feature. What is it? I tell you. The search queries are not nearly as sensitive as a typical Google search. Particularly, Gmail does not offer alternative spellings. So for example, if I am searching something from my Gmail archives, unless the spelling is exact, I have a hard time locating the archived email of my affection.

Whereas a regular Google search is sensitive to misspellings (and misgivings). Gmail is not. The problem is that when using Gmail, I often assume that by archiving my emails, it will be a cinch tracking it down in the future with Gmail search. This unfortunately is not true.

While Gmail does allow you to search, the functionality are nowhere as comprehensive as a typical Google search. What is the solution? Simple. All Google has to do is adopt the same search parameters they use for their standard Google searches and import this into Gmail.

If you are a loved one work for Google, can you please pass along this suggestion to the Gmail folks? Thanks!

Here I was. At buy.com. Searching for a camcorder. So that I can broadcast my pathetic self on YouTube. Become the next lonely phenomena.

Not only does buy.com list prices from competitors, like a home grown shopping comparison site, they actually list vendors with lower prices.

Truth is, Amazon.com does the same thing. But at least they’re not sending people to a different site.

Buy.com is selling this camera for $275.99. Below that, buy.com informs you that jr.com sells it for $249.99 & cructchfield.com sells it for $259.99. Both also offer free shipping as does buy.com.

The usual suspects are listed, circuitcity.com and bestbuy.com. OfficeDepot.com is also selling the camcorder. Hey, if Home Depot is selling plasma TV’s, it’s fair game

Amazon.com has an eletronics blog. Looks good too. It’s even updated regularly. Hotness. (Profile page.)

In typical Amazon.com fashion, there is even a tab explaining what is a blog:
A blog, also called a web log, is usually a collection of short articles or personal thoughts, called posts, written by one person. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently. Blogs typically link to other Web sites and blog postings. They can be read by anybody who visits the page.

The ad appears in the Electronics section of Amazon.

Good fit. The Comcast deal is high-speed access for $19.99 per month, for six-months. After that, they charge more. Maybe even come to your house and sleep on your couch (youtube clip). Plus, you get a $100 gift certificate from Amazon.com.

Lindsay Lohan was photographed disclosing a bit too much skin. More than once. I defended Lindsay.

Anyways, the pics are obviously a big hit on the internet.

When you search Yahoo for “lindsay lohan“, yahoo suggests trying other search queries. Click “show all“.

No commentary needed. Screen-shots speak a thousand words.

Please make a google search for the term “minimum wage“. Or just click here. Why? Because I asked nicely. And because latelty it just so happens to be a very popular search term.

Anyways, as always, above the results, you will see a list of news stories related to minimum wage.

Now, as we all are aware and if you are not aware now you have been made aware, Google recently launched archived news. LOL. This Google initiative is so old, it almost belongs in the news archives!

So, the cool thing is, that BELOW the search results, Google is currently displaying archived news stories!

Hence, the Google browser is entirely enveloped by related news items. Contemporary news above. And historic news below. Sweet!

BTW, there are paid ads for the term “minimum wage“. Two thoughts:
1) Goes to show you that regardless of the scenario, in this case people getting paid peanuts, Google still manages to reap the rewards.
2) If someone is earning minimum wage, not sure the internet is the best way to get in front of them…