If they’re evenly spaced, a launch will occur every 15 or so days.  If they’re not, well, there’s no telling.  But regardless of the specifics, Bill Wilson, AOL’s executive vice president of programming, has promised that his company will launch 12 new sites in the next six months.

There are millions of bloggers out there, so as a portion of the whole, 100 individuals don’t make for too impressive a group.  Relatively few bloggers are relevant to the IDG TechNetwork, however, and sealing deals with 100 of them makes for a decent start.

Seat Pagine Gialle (Seat PG) feels the impact of Google on its advertising business, suffering on the Italian stock market as a result.

HarperCollins took online publishing to a new limit with its expansion of their Browse Inside program to allow people to read full books online.

The majority of Americans (67%) say that traditional journalism does not provide what Americans want from their news, a new We Media/Zogby Interactive poll shows.

The survey found that more than half of Americans (70%) think journalism is important to the quality of their communities but 64 percent are dissatisfied with the quality of journalism in their communities.

If less than ten percent of the world’s population demonstrates an interest in something, "something" may suck.  Or it might just not have caught on yet, and a new white paper expresses this opinion of short-form video clips for mobile devices.

The average YouTube user isn’t likely to stumble across them, but an ongoing test appears to be spreading higher-quality versions of some videos throughout the site.  All that’s needed to access the clearer clips is the addition of six extra characters at the end of a URL.

More than one-fourth of U.S. employers have terminated employees for misusing email and one third have fired an employee for abusing the Internet according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute.

Twenty-eight percent of employers who have fired a worker for email misuse did so for violation of company policy (64%); inappropriate or offensive language (62%); excessive personal use (26%); breach of confidentiality rules (22%); other (12%).

eBay cautioned in its annual report that it will be challenging to win back former customers while also trying to attract new users to its properties.

The online auction site recently experienced its first major sellers revolt with customers boycotting the site after unpopular changes were made to fees and policies. At the end of the week long boycott eBay saw a 13 percent decrease in auctions

That online video will become more popular is something we all guessed.   But a new report quantifies its growth, and predicts that over half of all Americans will watch video online this year.

Welcome to Daryl Quenet’s introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), optimizing design, and how to maximize your websites search engine positioning for the major search engines.

When it comes to running an effective website that ranks well on the search engine results pages (SERPs), there are three major factors that can influence the number of search engine referrals (incoming searches) you get. This applies to all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Live).

Content Is King

Nine Inch Nails star Trent Reznor decided to enjoy his label-free status as a musician in making a work of new songs available to anyone who wants to download them.

Amid blog-driven hype over possible layoffs at Ask and the abandonment of the search engine in favor of Google comes a rebuttal of those potential moves by Ask parent IAC.

The company’s Exchange and SharePoint products up the stakes in the competition for businesses and their employees, to serve their technology needs with hosted services.

A simple formula pays off at the Valleywag corner of the Gawker Media empire: take a mostly male audience in a notoriously sexually frustrated profession, add a dirty-talking scribe, and watch the page views roll on in.

Frantic speculation that a softening economy may be causing Google’s paid click numbers to suffer should be taken back a notch.

Google may not be as great a bet as it once was, according to a Citi analyst.  Mark Mahaney believes the company is in pretty decent shape, though, and despite lowering his target by $25 (to $625), is standing by his "buy" rating.

The following results from my little, informal study are hardly definitive, but they are interesting. Someone following up with a more intensive and scientifically rigorous quantitative analysis might find the same thing I did: stories related to Barack Obama are submitted more often to Digg.com than stories about Hillary Clinton, John McCain or Ron Paul.

On the tech side, Google takes the prize against Microsoft, and stories about Microsoft outpace Linux.

People who are counting the ways in which Baidu has beaten Google may soon have to make one more tally mark; reports state that the Chinese giant is testing an instant messaging service.

A billion dollar plan backed by Google and healthcare investment firm OrbiMed Advisors will sequence the genes of 100,000 people in the biggest effort of its kind.

Drudge is turning out to be a sacrificial lamb in the name of journalistic integrity, sparking not only a debate about how cozy British journalists are with the British government, but also illustrating how powerful a citizen journalist, or blogger, can be.

Or "link journalist" I suppose, which is an interesting side-development.

Most posts on Google’s official blogs tend to either go unnoticed or be well-received.  A recent one announcing the release of Webmaster Tools Gadgets for iGoogle wasn’t so lucky.