Seems that this company is making tracks in the free 411 market. Even free 411 calls from you cell phone. Basically, i think that you listen to a few sponsor ads while they are “finding that number for you”.
:+ TechCrunch

Check out this walking robot, just click the image and play the video. Makes me think about the Jetsons and how I can get it to get me coffee.
+: VentureBeat

If your shopping for some venture capital, this sight might be of help.
Seems the users rate the Venture Capital firms based on personal experience.
But like Tech Crunch says, most start-ups are denied funds. So you may have some biased ratings.

This company (Casabi.com), has definetly a cool ideia, although i dont think I would use it.
+: VentureBeat

How Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes feels about software counterfeiters; “If they’re going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else,” Raikes says.

This is a fantasy betting site, all for fun, and the top picking users would win prizes. Now they are selling the picks from the top users.
For $10, you can get the collective Expert Sports picks of the top 30 users on five games.
And it seems they are beating Vegas odds, and the spread, with these picks.
+: TechCrunch

This article over at business2.0 is definetly worth reading if you can get one of the mentioned 20 start-up ideias working. The listed investors are willing to put up $100m for delivery.

Skype has rolled out a new service that allows people to charge for voice and video calls.
Payments are made through PayPal, (Skypes sister company), for a 30% fee. yeah, 30%.

So all you freelance coders who want to offer your wisdom for a fee and are willing to give Skype a 30% cut……

Here is a cool add on for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/

Basically it blocks Flash movies from displaying on a web page.

You then have the option of clicking on it to see it.

Flash is pretty cool. Played with it a bit hacking this image gallery slider at vAuxion.com, but sometimes when im surfing, it just gets to be too much.