Today, eBay announced the availability of Pulse, a tool that aggregates bids to provide up-to-the-minute (and historical) values for goods (and some services). Yes, that’s right… eBay, who, unlike your local newspaper, has transactions that clear (i.e., you know that…

Microsoft Search 1.0 will be available publicly tomorrow, and I for one expect to be generally underwhelmed. That’s a fairly bold prediction, I suppose, especially given that I’m not one of the rarified few who got an early look at…

After a little over a year of playing with the current crop of “social networking” sites (boy is it ever time to give that label a rest), LinkedIn is the only one I still use (and the only one that…

Stefanie Olsen over at News.com writes about Google’s new “Google Advertising Progressionals” program, aimed at providing better support to agencies representing major accounts. While not highlighted in her article, a one sentence statement points out the first move I’m aware…

In my last post, I mentioned this morning’s deal between Kanoodle and Six Part to allow TypePad users to add ads to their hosted blog posts, noting that no mention was made of support for feeds. It’s worth noting that,…

So, it’s three days later, and I still haven’t written much about my first BloggerCon experience… and I think I’m going to hold off on commenting on the conference itself for a bit longer yet… However, I will relay a…

Jessica Schweitzer of Hill & Knowlton shipped me a press release this morning noting that TypePad (made by Six Apart) subscribers will be able to ‘easily’ add Kanoodle contextual ads to their blog pages. (As I’ve previously noted, I’m amazed…

Jeff Jarvis, over at BuzzMachine, is doing a great job blogging the Ad:Tech conference (thank you Jeff!). One of the comments he records from Nick Denton in his coverage of the Blogging Panel surprised me: “…Someone at Salon asks what’s…

(Full disclosure: I have a whopping $2K in KR stock left from my time there… so if you think that might influence my opinion, you’ve been warned up front!) Knight Ridder announces that Hilary Schneider (43), will move from her…

I had the pleasure to meet a number of great folks at this year’s Kelsey Group ILM 2004 conference, including Judith Meskill. Judith was recently named Editorial Director over at Weblogs, Inc., which looks like a big win for everyone.…