Google's latest move to include it's toolbar within downloads of Macromedia Shockwave leads one to ponder why all the fuss? 55.4 million machines apparently have Macromedia Shockwave on them. Although putting a huge thorn in Microsoft's side, what use are toolbars now that many internet browsers are building them in themselves? Both the latest versions of IE and Firefox already include search engines. Is this latest move by the Search Engine giants to package their toolbars with other software

Call me another Conspiracy Theorist. I've disregarded all the crackpots who see the 230M page views a day who attributed Facebook's success with a right wing orwellian conspiracy to track every single college individual under the innocent veil of social networking. However, the other day when I came to work I noticed FB's newest features include a status menu that indicates your status, what you are doing and where you are doing it from. I won't bore you with all the claims of FB being funded b