links for 2008-04-25

Yahoo! launches SearchMonkey, a developer tool to play with Yahoo! search and semantic data. Could be interesting to see what it could do for Chipwrapper. I've signed up, though I have approximately 23 seconds of free time between now and June 7th

"This step hopefully concludes a saga that has been going on between Google and Brazil over privacy of these profiles. Brazil has been asking Google for this data since March 2006. Just over two years later, Google has handed over 3,261 files",

Tracks celebrity names up and down by volume of search on Live Search. I was trying to get something like this up and running at the BBC about five years ago...

Comeptition for a special Euro2008 logo for Google in German speaking territories.

Steve Bennedik on when the staff become the story.

"Maybe the BBC should introduce 'broadcast conversion producers', to take content from the web and repurpose for TV and radio?". Don't give them ideas, Alfred, don't give them ideas

"It is not often that we find ourselves supporting the Christian Legal Centre, but in this case they appear to have a legitimate grievance against BBC and ITV officials". Criticism of plan for a mega-mosque in London forcibly toned down by the stations.

Richard Ziade's thoughts on the New York Times having a button that allows visitors to the site to minimise the adverts. Maybe you have to be in the U.S., because I don't see it on the site.

"Her death was the latest tragedy in what some in Japan see as an epidemic of copycat suicides among the young and internet-obsessed". Lucky that reporting it this way won't encourage kids in the UK to find out how to do it, eh?