links for 2005-10-13

Audi A3 camboomo! Blog ads turn out to be better value than Yahoo banners for Audi. (tags: Advertising Blogs) Matthew Hurst wonders where Technorati’s professiona product is? Announced for August release, nothing yet seen. (tags: Blogs MediaMonitoring) American Idol Comes to Internet Ad Campaigns Why shouldn’t online marketers let the public choose the star of…

The Interweb as Mass Media breakdown of media consumption rates (tags: media metrics)

SharedReviews Paid Opinions (tags: ugc) Weekend Poll: Will Google Universal Search Kill Vertical Search Engines? (tags: search VerticalSearch) GoogleBurner – A Bad Day for the Blogosphere? Matthew Hurst shares some of my concerns over the concept of GooBurner (tags: MandA acquisitions metrics) Internet Giants Vie to Snap Up Web Ad Firms (tags: web Advertising MandA…

Youtube paying for content, radio and the Viacom Lawsuit…the net result (tags: youtube payingusers) PodTech Interview on TechStars (tags: startups funding event) The real-world view of Web 2.0 (tags: stats) A Boston Newspaper Prints What the Local Bloggers Write – New York Times (tags: media outlook) Real Time – WSJ.com article on Belgian newspaper lawsuit…

It’s appropriate that the common symbolism of entrepreneurship among children is the lemonade stand. Even as adults, succeeding as an entrepreneur relies on turning lemons into lemonade — even if most of the time those lemons aren’t real. From the person who becomes an entrepreneur of necessity after losing a job to the startup setbacks…

The SEC has nailed an Estonian investment bank and a couple of hackers for sneaking into the Business Wire press release distribution system to find out which public companies would be making significant announcements in the near future.  They then bought stock or sold it short for a profit. Since the start of this year,…