While You Were Away…

eBay Needs To Extend Auction Endings

I've ranted a few times in the past about auction sniping, the practice of bidders using software to hop in at the last second and snag an item at a price below what other bidders may be willing to pay in open bidding.

Search Engine Optimization for Newbies

Explaining search engine optimization to newbies is something that anyone with sales or account support responsibilities at a search marketing or interactive agency is going to have to get good at.

Microsoft Backs Off BlueJ Patent Claim

A useful piece of functionality in Visual Studio had been incorporated into the product without attribution to its creator, Michael Kölling of the University of Kent. Microsoft then submitted a patent application for the tool, which they have reasonably withdrawn.

LinkedIn Gets “HookedUp” With $13 Million

LinkedIn has been done pretty well for itself; over 9 million "experienced professionals" have joined the online network, and a value of about $250 million was placed on the company. It's surprising, then, that LinkedIn recently went to the trouble of collecting $12.8 million more in a round of financing.