Yes a new channel that can drive traffic if you are in the music and entertainment business. It is MSN Search on a niche market using your windows media player.

Search.windowsmedia.com can be a good and additional traffic for you.

Have you ever wondered how the future touch screen would look like ?

Let us know how would you use this touch screen if you have it today or in the next coming years ?

I would frame it this way: Who Pimps my Ride and Create + Use my TIME ?

Instead of tips: I would say, ” some people like you use Blogger”

As for users trust behavior + usability + credibility + branding = Lock In strategy as mentioned in “The Information Age”

Each company needs and want to use a lock in strategy for their users and enhance the experience added value.

Personally, if those [suggestions] with big S appears at the right moment in the right place, I would not mind using them but companies may fail to serve my satisfaction when they begin putting less time into their products development.

Google, Firefox or any other companies do intend to lock in Users and get the mass power because at the end quantity and time spent is Value.

These companies want to create and use your TIME instead of watching you passing by something without paying much attention.

Replying to Google Blogoscoped, Danny Sullivan and Blake Ross

Try to Open your Google Earth, and search for “Google Xmas”, you will get some weired results where the word google exist in kml format file.

Check it out