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Check out this Dutch, wood fired hot tub, especially their gallery. Almost every picture in it has people enjoying beer or wine while hot tubbing. Looks like the tub has a built-in wine bottle holder! Try and imagine that from a US manufacturer.

Many people don’t like the term user generated content. It’s because it focuses on content, not people. And people are what matters most on the new web. I mentioned this to Tony Conrad a while back, and yesterday I noticed that he’s using the term People Media instead of user generated content. I asked him why and he said it just seemed to make sense to him. I agree. I like it. Mainstream Media. People Media.

I like the new Yahoo home page and enjoyed Read/WriteWeb's podcast about it. But Ravi (ex-Yahoo) makes a good point I had not considered:

"This homepage dropped the concept of website directory completely. I guess the transformation is complete. Yahoo! is now more about showing people in and around yahoo! network and not about showing people what’s most useful on the web. Yahoo! is the new AOL of the web…"

I've been looking to replace my trusty 4 year old Toshiba Portege and ended up getting a MacBook. What's good enough for Dave is certainly good enough for me! I like it so far. Just opening the box put a smile on my face - such nice product design.

In case you haven't already, you should check out Sphere. It's a great new blog search engine which I helped get started last year and which, more importantly, will help you discover great blogs.