Google Tackles Click Arbitrage

Google is putting its Birkenstocks down hard on AdWords clients with less-than-quality landing pages for their websites, in an attempt to clean up those made-for-AdSense pages found all over the web. Click arbitrage is a modern version of the "buy low, sell high" advice many have learned over the years.

Java EE Marked For Death

Although the Java programming language will endure, the Java EE framework may be deader than a doornail by 2010.

Leads Too Valuable For Sales People Alone

David Meerman Scott's blog post, "Sales Leads Are too Valuable for Sales People," is worth a read. He shows the folly of marketers who throw sales leads over the wall and expect sales people to catch them.

Microsoft’s iPod Killer Gets Expanded Duties

Microsoft's rumored iPod killer may be much, much, more than that. In addition to its own features, the product, codenamed Argo, could be part of a larger line of "Xbox-branded digital-media products" in the works. And it's possible it won't make it out by Christmas, as earlier reports indicated. Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times broke this news thanks to "some research, reporting and information…