Visualization and Buying

Official: Google Penalizing Paid Links

 Google has officially said that buying and selling links that pass PageRank is a violation of the company's Webmaster Guidelines, and can result in a drop in search rankings.

Analytics and Gut-Feelings

Neil sent me an interesting link yesterday - Less (Information) Is More in which the work of Gerd Gigerenzer, of the Max Planck Institute in Germany is discussed. Gerd has a new book “Gut Feelings” that sounds like it has a lot in common with Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (reviewed here).

AOL Cashes In Money & Finance Beta

AOL will go head to head with Yahoo Finance as well as competition from Google and Microsoft, with all of these big Internet players looking for valuable financial news readers.

Universal DRM Free Music Speeding Up

The slow march towards universal DRM free music appears about to become a sprint to the finish line.  Recent developments pushing Sony BMG, WMG and other holdouts to reconsider their protectionist positions include: