Links for 2007-02-08

Yahoo! Launches Pipes

A user-friendly create-youor-own mashup service. Jeremy Zawodny’s post on Pipes is a must read.

6 Startup Lessons For The Year 2007

Read and learn.

Convert Google Gadgets to Other Widget Platforms

Get Google Gadgets on your Mac OS X Dashboard or Windows Vista sidebar. If you haven’t visited my post on widgets, gadgets, and modules in a while, you may wish to revisit it.

Say Everything

Also titled “Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll.” Long, but worth it.

Black Brilliance

The short version of Percy Julian’s life and significance.

Howto: Download Youtube and Google Videos

It’s easier if you use Safari. But you can also do it with a couple of Greasemonkey scripts.

Helio: 70,000 subscribers and growing

Smart strategy of pushing themselves as a data services and content company. But 70,000 subscribers still seems really, unprofitably low.