links for 2007-05-19

PaidContent reports that Google is exploring creating a financial vertical, perhaps along the lines of Yahoo! Finance. Supposedly they are in an exploratory stage and have had meetings with many data vendors.

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

Akamai offers this fun little tool that shows volume of traffic to news sites around the world.  It’s more fun than useful, but Akamai could add value to it by trying to pinpoint the news stories that are causing upward fluctuations.  For example, at 6:45 PM ET tonight, it showed Australian news traffic was 200%…

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…

NY candidate starts agressive online ad buy, according to MediaPost: ANDREW RASIEJ, ONE OF THE challengers to New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, has turned to the Internet to promote his candidacy in the Democratic primary this September. His campaign went live Monday on over 20 New York City blogs, NYTimes.com, New York Magazine’s…

I published a column reflecting on my memories of my grandfather. He passed away today at 100 years old. Read the full column here.