Technutia

1. Needed: a more accurate sounding phrase than "rich client." (No, not the kind of rich client that might generally come to mind.) There is nothing about the Gmail experience that is not "rich."
2. Nice: to see Ask.com signage overlooking Highway 880 in downtown Oakland.
3. Niche-y: Though I think Lawbby looks interesting and potentially happening, and I wish Chris and Kevin well, I tend to agree with holohan: if what you're looking for is a way to relate in a MySpace-y sort of way, there's always, uh, MySpace.

[Update:] Keep up with Lawbby via Chris Rempel's blog.

[Update:] Just to compare apples with 27.4 billion pound gorillas: "MySpace has 75 million users (see somewhat dated comparison stats here), 15 million daily unique logins, is growing by a massive 240,000 new users per day, and is generating nearly 30 billion monthly page views (that's 10,593 page views per second)."