I am reworking our blog site with Francis and having some phone calls as well as e-mails with our clients in between. Now I have also subscribed about 40 or so of my favorite blog feeds to Bloglines and am having fun seeing the new blog posts coming in. Here the ones that you should look at too before or during the long holiday (Monday is yet another day off here in Europe):

• GigOm (and here)is still mad at the Vonage IPO
• Jurvetson has a great - historic - picture on Google's self-build networked PCs back in the very old days (1999 :-), and he also shows their master plan
  
• The NYSE has finally acquired - sorry, merged with - Euronext (and no comments on any of my favorite blog sites, they don't care?)
• eBay taps Opera to go mobile despite or especially because of the rumors that they are talking with MS about yet another merger
• Jeff Pulver gives everyone a last chance to R.S.V.P for their upcoming Globalcomm 2006 party in Chicago
• Gizmodo talks about the Negroponte $100 PC that currently still costs $130
• Engaget was able to successfully locate a Toshiba MES60VK 60GB Gigabeat S portable video and audio player in a North Dakota store (where the heck is that?)
• Guy Kawaski has created one more of his famous 15+ long bullet item lists, this time on the topic: The Top 16 Lies of CEOs
• Business 2.0 found that Bloglines has a Blog search now (I did not know that they had none)
• John Battelle found a Google for fun site
• Techcrunch has the pictures online from the last two networking parties in London and Seattle and will announce another party soon
• Tesla Motors raises 40 million USD new funding from the two Google founders, Kleiner Perkins & Kaufield as well as the Paypal founder; Tesla builds an electric sportscar
• Comments on Dell hooks up with Skype
• Finally, if you should do some serious outside overnight activity (the weather is supposed to be good in California and Southern France this weekend we heard, then take a look at this gadget