Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 5th:

• Information Card Specification Standards Approval Vote – Could the process to get us strong, usable authenticaiton and SSO functionality for the web take any longer? Sheesh! I'm tired of the toy projects. Someone build something robust, all-encompassing and secure… NOW! (P.S. OASIS seems an appropriate name as the identity crowd sits on some isolated island for the dithering academician. There's gotta be an entrepeneur in that group somewhere willing to some to the mainland and deliver something real.)
• Motion Control To Lengthen Console Hardware Cycles – Makes sense as the add-on motion functionality from both Xbox and Sony seem to be fairly technically advanced such that the peripherals will probably approach the $100 mark all on their own. Add $100 to a basic $199 Xbox and now you're already $50 over Wii at $249. It will be interesting to see what MS and Sony throw in as the bundled "game / interactive" title.
• Bing Off to a Good Start: Takes #2 Spot Ahead of Yahoo – Temp lift? Yeah, probably. Still neither is doing anything to really take out Google. Would be interesting to know what the relationship is between search provider and online e-mail, portal, calendaring, online apps provision is? I mostly use Google as I long ago tired of Yahoo's headache inducing pages. I was a long-time Hotmail user and continued with it after MS bought it, but the calendaring and other tie-ins just didn't keep up with Google, so I switched a year or so ago. So now my email, calendar, online docs, RSS reader, etc. are all tied into my blog, Facebook, phone, etc. So guess what? Google is my search provider since it is everywhere I "go" and it works for internet and all the rest of my online "life". Is pursuing purely "search" the best way to get "search" destination numbers up or should focus on total online offerings be the goal means with "search" as the consequent reward?
• A Look at the Zelda Teaser Image – Zelda… yawn…