Report: Blinkx Achieves 1,000 Percent YOY Growth

Blinkx might not be up for sale; an official source denied acquisition rumors that started last week.  But corporate statements don't necessarily mean much, and new Hitwise stats portray Blinkx as a tempting target.

Yahoo Looks At Geographical Relationships

Yahoo's taking its geo services to the next level, and along the way, the company's offering everyone a preview.  The Yahoo Internet Location Platform essentially figures out the relationships between different cities, states, and countries.

Actors And Studios In Dispute Over Online Clips

Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the major studios stalled last week after the two parties could not reach an agreement on how actors should be compensated for online clips.Studios want to distribute clips of old TV shows and movies without actors' permission and pay them a flat fee instead of paying each actor individually. The actors union is against the measure.

Google Describes How They Print Money

The auction-based process used by Google and other search advertising companies sets the keyword price for ads, in a way that Google's chief economist described as an efficient and equitable process.

Google Friend Connect – Sharing Social Networking Profiles

First MySpace announced data portability, then Facebook announced Connect, and now Google has Friend Connect. Each is making it easier to share profile information from one social networking site to other web sites (and hoping to be place you go to do that).