With stars, you can simply click the star marker on any search result or map and the next time you perform a search, that item will appear in a special list right at the top of your results when relevant. That means if you star the official websites for your favorite football teams, you might see those results right at the top of your next search for [nfl].

I really like this idea of using stars as I already use them for my Gmail and items I want to check out later on with Google Reader.  It also helps in allowing you to have your favorite searches right there at the top of your search results and of course it is dead simple to implement a star.

Good work Google!

FYI Stars in search are rolling out in the next couple days and will be available globally for all signed-in users.

In what can only be a bad thing for online video service Hulu and just overall crappy news as Viacom has announced they will pull The Daily Show and The Colbert Report from Hulu in the next week and stream only stream them on the shows websites as well as the Comedy Central site.

Obviously Viacom feels it can get more money from advertising on its own sites then it will get with Hulu and this is not good for us the fans who have enjoyed getting our shows streamed from the popular service Hulu.

Are things changing?  Is this just the beginning of shows being pulled from the service?   What are your thoughts?

I love PubSubHubBub for two reasons.  First because it helps bring the real time web and second I just love saying it all the time.  PubSubHubBub there I said it again!

Well today WordPress announced it would be pushing the protocol out to 10.5 million hosted blogs on WordPress.com.

Not sure what PubSubHubBub is or want to know more?  Check this video out.

Looking for that Chrome or Firefox Extension for Google Buzz?  Maybe see if there is an Adobe Air app?  Mobile apps or anything else Google Buzz related?  Well BuzzAware is the site for you.

BuzzAware currently has about 21 apps that allow you to extend the functionality of Google Buzz

Not familiar with Feedly well it is an extension you can install for your browser that can take you Google Reader items or your Twitter items and put them into a magazine like environment with some really kool features.

I really like Feedly and was super excited to see they are working on a mobile version of the service. For a look at their early prototype check out the video below.

Check out this YouTube video [having an embedding issue]

Pretty kool looking stuff if you ask me. What are you thoughts? Do you use feedly now?

Thats right kids there is a new version of Tweetdeck out there and amongst some of the updates we have more API calls available along with a way to let Tweetdeck control your allocation as well as more media integration with the likes of YouTube and Flickr.  Watch this video for more.

You have Twitter that lets you tell the world whats happening now and you have Foursquare that lets you tell the world where you are now but now there is a new service called Plancast that lets you tell the world what are you doing in a little bit or even what you will be doing far in the future.

Plancast is a service for sharing your upcoming plans with friends. It’s a social calendar of sorts. Just submit the things you’re thinking about doing in the future, and your friends will be able to hear about them – and maybe join you, too!

Along with sharing your future plans on the site itself it integrates with your Facebook by grabbing your events you have announced you will be attending as well as sharing your future plans on your wall.  It also will brodcast your future plans on Twitter as well.

Kind of a kool service to help you show where you will be, promote an event, and find out who you will see in the future.

[My Plancast]

Are you a developer?  Need some cash?  Wanna develop for WebOS?  Well if you answered yes to these then you will be interested in the new competition launched by Palm called The Hot Apps Program.

In hopes to get some fresh new apps Palm is putting 1 million dollars out there that you can win if your app is one of the hottest in the app store.  Here is a breakdown of what you can win.

The Palm Hot Apps Program will reward developers of the hottest webOS applications with a total of $1 million. The top rewards of $100,000 will go to developers as follows:

• The developer of the free webOS application that’s downloaded the most between February 1, 2010, and May 31, 2010 will receive a $100,000.
• The developer of the paid-for webOS app that generates the most revenue during the same period will also receive $100,000.

Developers of other top free and paid apps will also receive cash awards, as follows:

• The next 20 apps in each category: $10,000 each
• The next 200 apps in each category: $1,000 each