You know things are getting frothy when a company that just took $75MM in funding can justify double-dipping (into the wallets of individual investors) through an IPO. What’s more interesting (in my mind) is that FastClick is going public in…

I can only imagine how hard it’s been for Susan Mernit to hold back all manner of snarky remarks after the announcement from AOL that they were planning to offer free email accounts to “compete” with Yahoo, MSN and Google.…

I had a nice, long chat yesterday morning with a savvy Biz Dev guy over at Yahoo! around a number of interesting things happening at the intersections of personalization, aggregation, RSS, media, newspapers, etc. One of the minor (but culturally…

Just a quick note that I’ve accepted an opportunity to do a bit of guest blogging over at Morph, the blog of The Media Center at The American Press Institute. Officially, my ‘beat’ will be “the business of blogging and…

Who’s using social networking functionality as part of their online services? Movie sites. Job sites. Dating sites. Search sites. The list is endless. Well, not exactly endless. Judith Meskill (Social Software blog at Weblogs Inc) has a scary-long list of…

Michael Bazeley of SiliconBeat.com reports that eBay has agreed to buy Rent.com for $415MM; $385MM in eBay stock, $30MM cash. Wow! With the acquisition of Rent.com, eBay is once again squaring off directly with the newspaper industry, most notably with…

Like anyone who blogs (or is alive long enough), I occasionally hear about interesting job opps through friends, referred exec recruiters, etc. Dotan Saguy, who I met at Overture, emailed me about a new position he’s just created at his…

Peter Krasilovsky emailed me to let me know that the Yellow Pages Association has put together a Local Search Guide… essentially their version of a Who’s Who guide to Local Search. I’m not sure what criteria was used in constructing…

I won’t be reviewing it personally (or, at least not for several days), but if you haven’t already heard it from 10 other sources, Microsoft (MSFT) is launching MSN Desktop Search this morning, joing Google, Yahoo and everyone else. Remember,…

Kevin Newcomb of ClickZ takes a look at JupiterResearch data that indicates that Search Engine Marketing (SEM) agencies now control most search money. A very interesting development, indeed. In the “I like to be right” department (hey, who doesn’t?), I’m…