A new program called Google Gadget Ventures, launched by the search advertising company, will hand out grants and seed investments to worthy gadget writers.

The Federal Trade Commission issued its ‘Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy’ report and suggested caution on enacting net neutrality regulations.

A blog post offering a peek inside the frantic ant-marching at the Googleplex comes from a repatriated Microsoft staffer who rejoined the Redmond crew after a stint in Mountain View.

Video sites have been ground into the grooves of YouTube’s virtual tires on the information superhighway, in terms of online traffic.

I’m pretty good at spotting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, but this is something that I wouldn’t ever have noticed: Wikipedia’s logo contains two goofs.

User-generated content has changed the online world and created opportunities for marketers.

I understand why Google wants us to nofollow tag all of the comments on our blogs. Comment spam is crappy -true. It’s a nuisance and an eyesore -true. Add to that the weight and importance Google places on links in …

Let’s all say it together: the Internet is a pretty public place.  But not everyone seems to understand that, and now some teens who posted questionable pictures on Facebook have seen those photos resurface in their high school yearbook.

comScore and SEMDirector said today that they have entered into a joint marketing initiative to offer a new set of analytic solutions for managing large paid and organic search advertising programs.

Everyone’s keeping an ear to the ground for news concerning the mythical Gdrive, and unfortunately, I have no information on that front.  But a similarly named offering from Microsoft – Live Drive – may soon launch.

This is a mouthful, but here we go: Exanet has described itself as “the leader in software-based, clustered enterprise Network Attached Storage (NAS).”  Now, with that out of the way, the easy part (and the real news): Exanet has launched ExaSearch, an “enterprise-class search engine.”

Streaming media advertising is on track to reach $1.37 billion in 2007, up 38 percent over 2006, according to a report by AccuStream iMedia Research.

I was supposed to be a guest speaker at a meeting on the East Coast last Friday. I was invited by PodCamp founder John Havens, who set up a BlogTalk Radio connection.

As “Brands in Social Media” go, Google, Yahoo, Apple, and Microsoft stand head and shoulders above the rest.  Indeed, Google appears to receive more than ten times as much attention as Amazon.  But even within these four leaders, there are some big differences.

Healthcare as an informational topic continues to intrigue Google, which has gathered a group of healthcare experts to help the search advertising company understand health issues better.

If you want to get the Google Mini or Google Search Appliance, talk to Ingram Micro – even as sales surpass 9,000 units, the company has been selected to distribute Google’s hardware.

The BBC will launch its on demand TV Service, BBC iPlayer on July 27 it announced today.