Google Share Price Tops $400

Internet Portals Reap Huge Profits From Ads

Massive demand for prime placement on sites like MSN, Yahoo, and AOL means rates have skyrocketed, advertisers have to plan out campaigns well in advance, and smaller niche sites are profiting from the overflow.

Spiders With Ears, Searching The Podcast Future

The potential as well as the rapid early adoption of the podcast has the Internet industry buzzing to the point that some media aficionados are singing the dirges of print and traditional radio. At the forefront of the phenomenon is WebmasterRadioFM, a company that is developing the kind of artificial intelligence capable of spidering mp3 files for indexing. Yes, spiders with ears.

Jeremy Zawodnys Dumb Blog

Put the flamethrowers down, folks; Zawodny referred to his site as "my dumb blog" and discussed the joys and perils associated with blogging at Yahoo. Rich Ord sent along details of Zawodny's talk at PubCon.

Yahoo, AOL Rejecting Adware

In early 2006, an initiative backed by the two Internet portals will require developers to prove their software can be user-friendly and easy to uninstall before being certified as such by a new anti-spyware initiative.