• Startup ideas we’d like to fund [Y Combinator]
• How much money does the BBC need? [Media Guardian]
• Careful language is central to our technology [Inside guardian.co.uk]
• The biggest barrier to accessibility and inclusive design is us [Chris Heilmann]
• Why bother writing an article at all? Why not just scan in a few naked photos and have done with it? [Charlie Brooker - Comment is free]

• The Yahoo demolition derby [All Things Digital]
• Yahoo! search BOSS [Yahoo Developer Network]
• Take your chance to free public data [Guardian]
• More online government innovation [Dave Briggs]
• We all depend on the web working [Guardian]

• Warning to copyright enforcers: Three strikes and you’re out [Guardian]
• Hackers fan the flames of imagination at Mashed [Guardian]
• London SearchMonkey Developer Evening a great success [Yahoo Developer Network blog]
• Firefox download record official [BBC]
• The machine that copies itself [Guardian]
• Merger forms transatlantic union [BBC]

Went to the Yahoo SearchMonkey Developer Event last night.

Presentations by the developers of SearchMonkey was followed by a lively debate.

To quote from the SearchMonkey developer home page:

Using SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.

SearchMonkey seems to be one of few innovative developments in search over the past few years.

Looking forward to meeting again those from the London web development community I shared a beer with last night at this great event.

• Phoenix Mars Lander delivers soil sample to microscope [NASA]
• Yahoo! succumbs to the power of Google [Observer]
• I’m searching for Google alternatives [Guardian]
• Semantic web – why bother? [Tom Scott]
• How to publish linked data on the web [Freie Universität Berlin]
• BECTU’s response to PSB review [BECTU]

This is definitely excellent news!

Here’s some commentary on the announcement.