SoHo Trends

IdeaPaint turns virtually anything you can paint into a dry-erase surface.  Remove those useless prints of Impressionists paintings by artists whose names you can’t pronounce and turn your office (or home) hallway into a place for collaboration and murderboarding.

While the idea is very cool, the paint itself is quite pricey (although compared to the cost of buying and hanging a white board, it’s pretty competitively priced).  IdeaPaint offers two different types of paints, a solvent-based coating (available in 5 colors) and a water-based paint available in 10 colors.  The solvent-based coating is called Pro and costs $199.50 for a kit that covers 50 square feet.  The water-based paint is called CRE-8 and costs $175 for a kit that covers 50 square feet.

Google Webmaster Tools continues to improve its features.  The Google Online Security Blog just announced that Webmaster Tools will provide webmasters with samples of the malicious code that Google’s automated scanners detected on their sites.

From this post:

We’re happy to announce that we’ve launched a feature that enables Google to provide even more detailed help to webmasters. Webmaster Tools now provides webmasters with samples of the malicious code that Google’s automated scanners detected on their sites. These samples — which typically take the form of injected HTML tags, JavaScript, or embedded Flash files — are available in the “Malware details” Labs feature in Webmaster Tools. Registered webmasters (registration is free) of infected sites do not need to specially enable the feature — they will find links to it on the Webmaster Tools dashboard. Webmasters will see a list of their pages that we found to be involved in malware distribution and samples of the malicious content that Google’s scanners encountered on each infected page. In certain situations we can identify the underlying cause of the malicious code, and we’ll provide these details when possible. We hope that the additional information will assist webmasters and help prevent their visitors from being exposed to malware.

If you haven’t signed up for Google Webmaster Tools, what are you waiting for?

As many long time readers know, I’m a big fan of Google Voice (formerly known as Grand Central).  Now, Google Voice is rolling out an “Invite a Friend” feature to its users.  According to the Google Voice blog, invitations will be limited to three at the beginning.

Please add a comment on this post if your Google Voice account includes the “Invite a Friend” feature.