Now that most of the Microsoft-Yahoo stuff is (at least temporarily) out of the way, it’s time for the rumor mill to latch onto some other topic. One contender is the possible acquisition of LinkedIn.
Metallica Changes Download Tune
The old joke is that Metallica sold out in 45 minutes—not a concert, just sold out. The wicked bass and drums didn’t score any points with purists when the band did a 180 and decided MTV was good for their career after all, nor were any points scored when they went after Napster. Those who know exactly what I’m talking about will also double-take when I tell you the band is cool with online music these days.That may be because Trent Reznor and Radiohead were able to prove the concept that downloads are good for business.
Psystar: Address Changes, Emulators, And Woz
The attention-getting tale of a Miami company offering a cheap non-Apple branded personal computer spiraled wildly with several sites offering new aspects of the story.
Spitzer-Girl’s MySpace Page Mysteriously Changes
Before I could publish the update below, Eliot Spitzer’s call girl’s MySpace page had changed at least five times in two hours. It’s currently owned by "?". At least that’s what it says at this address, assumed earlier to be Ashley Dupre’s profile.
Yahoo Changes Bylaws To Stall Microsoft
Microsoft will have to wait to nominate new directors for Yahoo’s board, in its efforts to takeover the company.
eBay Drops Media Fees, Keeps Feedback Changes
The price for inserting media like books, movies, music, and video games on eBay drops in response to angry seller feedback.
eBay Redux: Shortcutting Fee Changes For Profit
The latest changes at eBay may encourage the opposite behavior from sellers that the online marketplace wants to encourage.
Getty Images Falls Victim to the Changes of the Internet
It seems like every week there’s another example of how the Internet has toppled business models that have been in place longer than the Internet itself. Control is not really possible when there are so many ways to pirate or undercut sales. The newspaper, music, movie, and now images market are changing drastically (and I love to read Seth Godin’s take on the changes).
Google Changes Its Mind About Money-Back SEO
Business makes strange bedfellows. Just in time for the FTC to approve Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, and with it an SEO firm called Performics, the company has changed its tune a bit about how to deal with SEO companies.For the longest time, Google advised webmasters to be wary of SEO companies, and put up this warning at the Webmaster Help Center:
LinkedIn Changes Put it Ahead of Facebook?
LinkedIn, the business-networking site that many (including me) see as an also-ran in the social-networking game, has launched some new features, including a redesigned homepage and a rollout of its previously announced developer platform, which it hopes will make its network as extensible as Facebook has with the F8 platform.