The guys at TheNextWeb.org show us how easy it is to hack your Feedburner subscriber count. Won't take more than a minute or so to add a few thousand subscribers.

It's been discussed before: in this information-filled age with all our personal data in databases that are vulnerable to leaks, as well as much of our behavioral data being gathered by corporations, is there really any privacy? On Wednesday, in response to a lawsuit, Google said no.

Cuil is pronounced "cool" and what makes it potentially cool is the participation of former Google search architect Anna Patterson and her husband, Stanford professor Tom Costello, as well as other prominent search tech folk. (Where have we seen that minimalist home page before, eh?)

Should Linden Labs, creators of Second Life, start quaking in its boots? Nah. This isn't the same sort of virtual world. But on Tuesday Google opened up Lively, its own take on a virtual world, but rather than being one big world its more like being a series of distributed rooms spread across the Internet.

As Google prepares to launch Street View in the U.K., and has already launched it in France, concerns over privacy have been raised by the group Privacy International, which says it feels Street View violates privacy laws.

You'll recall that Canada, which has very strong privacy protections in place (for example, a study has said that DRM violates privacy law), has already raised such concerns.

LifeLock, which I wrote about earlier, and not in a positive manner, has been sued again, this time by a competitor.

On Wednesday NAMESAFE sued LifeLock over search ads that it said were purchased by LifeLock, which used the NAMESAFE trademark yet directed users to LifeLock's web site.

It's obvious that if you wanted to get the email address john@yahoo.com, you couldn't. Saturation has meant that if you want to get an email address at Yahoo!, or for that matter, Gmail, you frequently have to resort to adding numbers or other such differentiating characters. What a pain, right?

With two new domains, you could possibly get john@ymail.com or john@rocketmail.com, if you're fast.

You can't trust anyone nowadays. No sooner did Kevin Johnson, president of the Platforms and Services Division of Microsoft send an email to the "troops" explaining the Yahoo! situation, it was leaked.

When writing my earlier story on the Voodoo Envy 133, I was pretty annoyed by the Flash intro to the revamped VoodooPC site. That's precisely the reason for a feature such as this. Search for a site, and - if the site has a Skip Intro link on it - results will have a "Skip intro," which enables users to skip the Flash intro, directly from the search results.

Take that, Google. To alleviate any antitrust concerns, Microsoft has to make separate deals with each OEM if it wants its search integrated into an OEM's PCs. And on Monday it landed a biggie, particularly with HP's ranking as the world's largest PC manufacturer.