John Battelle notes the launch of Syndicate IQ, a service whose objective is, “To manage, measure and monetize syndicated content.” Finally! I had an email exchange with a senior exec (who I’ll call “Bob”) at a company focused on Feed…

A quick refresh on some recent Idealab history: 1. Google acquires Idealab’s solid photo management tool (and instant messaging platform) Picasa. 2. Idealab announces the oh-so-transparent Snap.com and beta of local-referral service Insider Pages at Web 2.0. 3. Now, according…

I’m neck deep simultaneously packing boxes for my move this weekend and cranking on a consulting gig (hence the slow posting), but need to take a quick break to acknowledge an interesting development (and a good man)… and of course…

(Disclosure on involvement in this general space.) It’s no secret that I’m passionate about Search and see RSS (well, Feeds in general) as the next wave in the industry, likely having as disruptive an impact on (careless) established Internet players…

Steve Rubel (Micro Persuasion blog) ponders the possibilites of podvertising (i.e., advertising in, and around, podcasts). It’s an interesting read, both from the perspective of the solid job Rubel does laying out the (obvious) near term possibilities… as well as…

I’ve been a daily (at worst) reader of Techdirt for the last year, drawn by front man Mike Masnick’s insightful commentary (delivered with a consistent level of snarkiness that I can only envy). I knew Techdirt was selling some sort…

Scott Knowles of Websense points to the recently launched QuackTrack (a spin-off by the folks who produce BlogShares), which has a nicely structured index (i.e., directory) of 85,000 blogs. 85K blogs is a small, small percentage of the 4MM-15MM estimate…

Ken Jennings, of “74-straight-wins” on Jeopardy fame, becomes the spokesman for Microsoft Encarta. Brilliant.

Jeremy Zawodny (of Yahoo!) rips RayG (of Feedster) a new one for asking if search engines could increase revenues by inserting affiliate links into their search results. Jeremy states (emphasis mine): “If a search engine dropped in affiliate links in…

Nothing like the peer-pressure of consumerism in America at Christmas to spur a little Big Media advertising! I can almost feel the joy the National Advertising Sales teams at various newspaper chains must be expressing today in response to the…