And the Oscar goes to . . .

The Oscars got it right. . . for best original song: "Once"

3 weeks, 2 handycams to make this indie movie from Ireland for less than $100,000. Now, that's movie making at its best and what an uplifting song for once.

Bravo!

Next generation search

I wrote about the next thing in search a while ago citing the inherent weaknesses in Google's search methodology. I was caught today by a blog citing the launch of SkyGrid which appears to be trying to bet the farm on predictive searches for very specialized and high paying consumers - hedge fund managers. Monitor110 versus SkyGrid versus Old School (Bloomberg, Google) -- this could get very interesting very quickly.