As a Valentines treat Google Webmaster Central is now out of Beta. I got the announcement live at SES London.

Recently they added the 'links' feature which is really cool, it crashes on big sites though, so maybe some sort of scheduled/requested report which could be compressed and downloaded once the file is fully created might be more stable and quicker.

Managed to catch up with Matt Cutts and discuss the major issue of non regionally specific domains and what could be done to help webmasters outside the US specify which indexes they should belong in. Hopefully there will be a definite solution soon.