links for 2007-05-09

An email from MediaPost reports: “Have we reached critical mass on consumer broadband penetration in the United States? Well, apparently JupiterResearch says we have. Jupiter reports that more than 43 percent of online households now connect to the Web via broadband, thus constituting critical mass. Jupiter projects that broadband adoption will reach nearly 80 percent…

This one I just don’t understand.  Tom Foremski  takes Technorati to task over at Silicon Valley Watcher for a pay service that allows corporations to track their coverage in the blogosphere.  He writes: "I was surprised by how aggressive Technorati was in its pitch because it has a very good standing within the blogging community,…

PaidContent reports that news parody site The Onion has dropped its premium pay service.

From Search Engine Watch reports on the emerging market for B2B search and features commentary by some current players in that sector. One of the top trends highlighted at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose was the growing importance of vertical search, and one of the key sessions in the vertical track was…

Charlen Li explores an interesting concept: the third page of search. I’ve been noodling around the idea of the "Third Page" of search (credit goes to Perry Evans from LocalMatters for prompting this train of thought). The first page of search is the query page (like www.google.com), the second page is the search results, and…

Steve Rubel reports: Gartner today released its Goldie Locks-esque “2005 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies” report. The research identifies the tech industry’s “just right porridge.” It highlights the technologies that have moved from conception, to market over-enthusiasm, through a period of disillusionment, to an eventual understanding of its relevance in the market. Blogging, podcasting, RSS…