Welcome to Ephman RSS weekly review. Today is Sunday, February 7 the year is 2010. This is what's gone on in the past week in the RSS world. Currently following 120 feeds across a variety of different topics.

The hottest thing this week coming in at 41.2°C is Siri. And Siri is really cool. It is an iPhone app that essentially is your own digital personal assistant. And they've got some great partners on this so it really makes for an all encompassing app. You can type in what you want or. just say it. Looking for a romantic restaurant and (nuance if you saw the logo their use one of the leaders in voice dictation software and so Ephman's a big fan of them), it shows you a list of all the different romantic restaurants in your neighborhood. And you can find everything from gas stations to what movies are playing. Just a wide variety of different things. You can even go and make a reservation at any of these restaurants. Here are some of their partners Open Table, Taxi Magic, Weather Bug, allmenus.com, Yelp, Rotten Tomatoes it's so scary it is definitely a cool app. Ephman has downloaded it in and has made his iPhone just a tad less crappy.

So let's see what else is happening this past week in the RSS world. Google has released some new software for its Nexus. It helps. With Google Maps 3.4 is integrated there and has a night mode for navigation. Very very cool as well as what was really important to Google and Nexis One in particular is 3G connectivity. A lot of people were complaining that their 3G was a little bit too slow for them so they definitely picked that up. As well as they added the Google Goggles application inside of Nexus. So good for Google for so quickly coming to the aid of their users and fixing some serious problems and adding some new features.

Monster.com. Big news from the employment site, aside from the fact that unemployment is still a major issue. They went off and spent a whole lot of money and bought hotjob.com, out of Yahoo!. Ephman think something like a quarter billion dollars. So Yahoo has unloaded some of their crap and gave it to Monster. So hopefully it will help some people go and find jobs, knock wood. Ephman has his, but if you try out monster maybe you will find yours.

Mark Cuban, always in for a good quote. Called Google "a vampire" this past week and he is probably correct. And essentially what it comes down to is Google refuses to stop stealing content for Google News. The fact is Mark Cuban essentially just has to talk about stuff. If you forget about Mark Cuban, he has to say something or do something so that he is remembered. But no more he does it the less viability there is in him. One thing in particular that struck Ephman is the most ridiculous comment was "There is no need to be indexed in Google". Ephman isn't the biggest Google fan, but the reality of the situation is that Google is huge and you need to be indexed in Google. Mark love, you but you get a thumbs down today.

Huge fan of chili peppers. And if you follow Ephman's blog you will know that he does talk about chili peppers. From time to time. And Ephman loves food hot and you should as well. And so one of the things that is really good is that of course if you'd need a lot of hot peppers and they numb pain. What Ephman does that mean he can eat a ton of hot peppers. And the more he the more numb his mouth gets. It's weird it's kind of a spicy numb. But it works. Another reason it's good for you is they say it helps fight cancer. Essentially what it does is it helps cells die. And because what a tumor sometimes is, is a collection of cells that are supposed to have died, but just go freakzoid instead. And so that's a nice reason to eat your hot peppers. Also if you're eating bad tasting food and throw some chiles on there it can make things taste a little bit better and not to mention the endorphin high you get from chili peppers.

Some people might think this is good, some people might think this is bad. Ephman can't quite seem to figure out just yet. But the general that was head of the F-35 aircraft program has been fired. The good thing is that a general has been fired, and there's one less General on the planet. And the bad news is that the reason he got fired and was because this airplane is so far behind schedule and so much more expensive than what it should be. Now they'll fix the thing all up.

Machu Picchu, Ephman has been standing right there in the picture. He has been there not too long ago, and maybe about a month ago, in fact actually two months ago. It has definitely been severely hampered. In this is nice to see lots of people helping but here's the river Ephman would walk across this bridge and get to Machu Picchu or the botanical garden. But you can't really walk there is much anymore. Here's a brave soul. That water is really treacherous. There's no road in and no road out, the only way is by train. And the tracks were ripped off. So people have to get out by helicopter. It'll be a few months until people can start coming back.

And just want to give a thumbs-up to BMWSauber for launching their car. Although it uses a Ferrari engine, glad to see that they are still in survival mode and you can thank Peter Sauber for that one. Thanks for dropping by, and we will see you next week.