This week was filled with scary costumes, DROID madness, and Google continuing there mass takeover of the world. What fun or agony, it all really depends if you are TomTom and Garmin (Thanks Google Navigation!):

MOTOROLA DROID

The new Motorola Droid coming to Verizon Wireless on November 6th made geeks around the world finally think, “hmm… there actually may be something other than the iPhone to choose from!” Pretty exciting stuff. Here are the reviews:

• Gizmodo
• Engadget
• CNET
  • All in all I thought that most of the DROID reviews were fairly honest and unbiased. I think that it was hard to not be in the hype from this phone, but I feel that most of these great sights did well.
• The Motorola Droid pre-release round up and one more thing via ChristopherMarkSmith.com
  • Ah, yes, shameless self promotion.  This is a post I created earlier in the week with some more DROID related links.

GOOGLE

• Music Search is Google’s newest Tune via CNET News
  • Yet another thing Google has their hands in.  Does this worry anyone?
• Los Angeles adopts Google e-mail system for 30,000 city employees via LA Times
  • This is a very good test to see how cloud computing will stand up to the mainstream. I am sure that Google can handle this one. Plus only the extremely geeky tech-heads know what a Gmail outage is.
• Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 via The Official Google Blog
  • TomTom and Garmin got a nice little trick-or-treat surprise this Halloween!

MISCELANEOUS

• Is Today the Internet’s 40th Birthday? via ABC News
  • It’s kind of hard to pin down the actual day that the internet was “born” but, we can guess it is around this week 40 years ago.
• Windows 7: The Next Generation of Customer Support via Microsoft Presspass
  • This is pretty awesome, and actually started working with Vista SP1. It is so cool to think that in the near future that most of our computer problems will fix themselves.
• Ubuntu 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’ released, could decide your OS fate via Engadget
  • I am definitely an open source geek, but have yet to try the newest version of Ubuntu. I will be trying it out soon and posting my impressions.
• Dive into HTML 5 via DiveIntoHTML5.org
  • If you want to get your feet we with the newest in HTML, this is THE site to check out.
• Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years via ReadWriteWeb
  • The whole entire interview was about 45 minutes, but ReadWriteWeb took out about 6 minutes that everyone who uses the web would be interested in.
• Bill Keller: Apple Tablet ‘Impending’ via Gawker
  • Is there any post that would be a post without some sort of Apple table reference? Anyways, Bill Keller from the NYT let the Apple ‘Slate’ slip out in a press conference, and if that is the real name, I am loving it.

HANDING OUT THE FRIEND LOVE

• Defining Wordpress Terms Part 2 – Categories vs. Tags via EricaSays.com
  • Another great addition to Erica’s ongoing serious about Wordpress for beginners
• Fun night at Windows 7 Launch Party! via HelpMeRick.com
  • Yes, Rick it is geeky, but a hell of a lot of fun!
• 3 Best Tools to Ask a question online via LostInTechnology.com
  • I thought that this was a great post about getting answers online. I tried Twitter after I read it and was shocked how well it worked.