I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve taken a new consulting client; Gap.com (aka, Gap Direct, the online arm of the retailing giant). My focus will be on product strategy and product management. The project they’ve got underway is… rather substantial……

Techdirt:New Business Models For The Music Industry? TechDirt starts a discussion on business models for IP (specifically, music), based on an NPR story. Part of TechDirt’s perspective is on micropayments: “The second idea is bringing back the always popular, but…

BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis Buzzmachine’s Jeff Jarvis reacts to Ad Age’s advice w.r.t. to bloggers: “DON’T throw money at bloggers. These influencers will not respond to outright, traditional ad placements.” I understand Jeff’s points… but there have been plenty of…

Yahoo! Search blog: Quest For a Car Yahoo! Search Blogger and employee Jerry Welch recounts a story of his 16 year old daughter’s quest for her first car, and how broadband and Internet Search played a role. While it may…

Forbes.com: McCartney Rumored Apple Board Member In “Mind Boggling” Beatles Settlement Hmm, something very interesting could be happening here… so why not some wild speculation. Let’s assume the following quote is true: : “Word among the legal community is that…

Roland Tanglao’s Weblog: Telepocalypse: All product and service development should be transparent and embrace power users and early adopters and geeks Roland Tanglao lends his support to a post on Telepocalypse calling for more accessibility/interaction between customers (likely both direct…

Major graphics flaw threatens Windows PCs CNET News.com A little outside of the scope of things I generally blog about (though computer security is fair game I suppose)… but as a public service, I’m passing this along. Fire up those…

ThomasB2B Launches Paid Search ClickZ, covering the launch of ThomasB2B.com (a search/directory service focused on the B2B vertical) has an interesting quote from Dan Savage, the president of ThomasB2B.com: “I think if Google or Overture were to start over again…

Yahoo Acquires Musicmatch For $160M socalTech.com reports that Yahoo! has acquired Musicmatch for $160MM. Coupled with its Launch service, and recent renewed rebranding of consumer devices (broken by Engadget), it seems quite possible that Yahoo! is preparing to directly challenge…

Steve Rubel on Danny Sullivan on the Yahoo Search Blog (Jeremy Zawodny’s blog) Jeremy Zawodny backs up Danny Sullivan (of Search Watch fame) when Steve Rubel asks (i.e., doesn’t accuse) whether Danny’s integrity can remain intact after Danny guest blogs…