While stumbling around around the interweb tonight I found an interesting Q&A with William Ostrem of Northern Letter and Sean Virnig of Rawland Cycles.

The part that intrigued me the most about the answers that Sean was giving was this :
Bill: My wheels [on my Surly] are 700C, I think. Why would I change to 650B?
Eric: [...]

Titanium seems to be making a bit of a comeback as a popular choice for hardtail mountain bikes again and 29″ers are not exempt. Twenty Nine Inches is hearing some rumors and soft news regarding the grayish hued wonder metal.
Lynskey Performance Designs, which showed a cruiser bike recently, is going to also show a belt [...]

Hayes Bicycle Group’s blog has posted up compatibility of their various forks with the Panaracer 650b x 2.3 tire.
(Photos and info were borrowed from the above blog.)
Manitou Minute (non-29er):
Clearance to casting = 3.41 mm
Clearance to crown = 1.06 mm

Manitou Minute 29er:
Clearance to casting = 6.50 mm
Clearance to crown = 16.89 mm

Manitou R7:
Clearance to casting [...]

You’re chance to win a Pacenti 650b. Ride a bike built by the man behind the wheelsize.

Pacenti 650B Mountain Bike Raffle
Presented by Pacenti Cycle Design
Chattanooga, TN
Monday, December 10, 2007 to Monday, March 10, 2008
Online Registration Closes
Sunday, March 09, 2008 at 8:00 AM ET

Check out BikeReg for more details.

Twenty Nine Inches will be testing this frame (and a rigid fork) in the upcoming months from OS Bikes. As we have reported before, the frame only comes in one size, and it just happens to fit me. Since that was the case, I went ahead and ponied up for the frame and fork option. [...]

You heard it.. they are in the works!   Kirk Pacenti posted on MTBR that Stans will be putting a ZTR-355 in production and should be available in April sometime.
The good news is that the tire and rim combination work great together. According to Stan the tire is true to size and sealed much better than [...]