Jim has been lost since last Sunday night; The coast guard stopped their search on Thursday night so now only friends and volunteers are looking. There is an amazing effort going on using private planes and satellite imagery. You can help in the following ways, even if you are not in the San Francisco area:

Analyze satellite images using Amazon's mechanical Turk: http://www.mturk.com/mturk/startiterator?iteartorSearchSpec=HITGroupSearch%23T%231%2310%23-1%23T%23!requester_id!2!rO0ABXQADkEyRTlDTDlPN1hYNUFS!Reward!6!rO0ABXQABDAuMDA-!%23!NumHITs!1!%23!

Facebook: http://uchicago.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2231333457

Keep track of the search blog and post suggestions or respond to specific requests for help and resources: http://openphi.net/tenacious/?feed=rss2

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2006/1130-exclusivehalo3trailer.htm

Monday night at ESPN between 5:50 and 6:20 PM PST there will be a nice commercial on ESPN (MNF)

Master Chief makes a Monday Night Football appearance.

Around that time you can also start to sign up for beta testing Halo 3

I am sure happy that my xbox 360 arrived yesterday. Too bad I need to keep it under wraps until xmas.....

I am sure you have heard how Google is making its money by they bucketloads: they sell adds.

Microsoft launched its adCenter a while ago. Today I saw a promo come by and I signed up for an account and decided to run an ad campaign for a topic about which I sometimes blog. (let me know if you see adds for my blog:-) )

I am spending $10 and we will have to wait and see how long the campaign lasts on that budget and of course how efficient it is.

Here is a quick summary of some cool products that MSFT released the past few weeks:

Windows Defender to help protect your computer against spyware

Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Although this version is for Windows XP I think it is the same version as build into Windows Vista. WDS 3.0 supports the office 2007 suite.

Microsoft Accounting Express 2007 software to do everyday accounting and other business tasks for small businesses (mom/pop shops). You can see a product overview here

I updated my map that contains many of the Microsoft Offices in the USA. The map contains more than 50 offices at this moment in time. If you know of offices that I missed just let me know and I will add them.

You can find it here: http://local.live.com/?v=2&cid=611216EE7EB3297A!775

You can also use this as an example on how to create your own interesting maps.