LaLa.com: For Karmic Music Lovers

"Respect the artists and Karma will be on your side," waxes Bill Nguyen at LaLa.com. Those ten words become the yang to the Recording Industry Association of America's yin. Nguyen set up La La as a harbor for exploited musicians, a legal swap meet for fans, and a message to labels to make like a record and skip.

Google Base Storms Into Europe

Google wants to drag the clock builders and chocolate makers out of their Old Europe brick-and-mortar mindset into the gleaming silicon-driven online marketplace, preferably with a Google Base account at the foundation of those efforts; we suggest a partnership that could help make this happen.

AOL May Digg New Netscape Format

After tossing out a number of Netscape staffers, AOL could relaunch the site as a user-generated content destination built like the popular tech news website Digg.com.