Short films like “Boundin’” and “For The Birds,” which appeared at the beginning of full-length Pixar movies, have sold briskly on Apple’s iTunes new video marketplace.

Texan Lynda LeCompte has created an avian flu outbreak add-on for Google Earth mapping out confirmed cases of the bird virus worldwide, contributing to the rash of Google Earth/Maps mash-ups. Get it? Rashoutbreak

An analyst with Classified Intelligence has found a Google patent application for Automat, a system where users can develop and post classified ads.

Big Blue’s Public Image Monitoring Solution will let an enterprise delve into the depths of the web and the murky haze of the blogsphere to find out what people are saying online about a business.

Next week, intellectual heavy hitters from both sides of the Google Print for Libraries debate will be squaring off at the New York Public Library for a “discussion” about the competing interests and issues raised by the project. This could get ugly, and you can see it for as little as $10.

The second-leading global manufacturer of cellphones has released two new models of its ultraslim RAZR phone; one model will be compatible with Apple’s iTunes Music Store. A couple of color choices will be available soon too.

Though some people do willingly pay for abuse, like dealing with the local post office, harassing and threatening your customers on eBay is most likely a bad way to do business. It may even lead the press to your front door, which is worse.

Google wants to expand its place in the enterprise and will throw in a Google Mini with each purchase of a Google Search Appliance that replaces an existing competitor product.

An event to be held in New York will have Google in attendance, along with representatives from the Authors Guild and the American Association of Publishers.

Google Mobile Team’s Matt Waddell has reached a place of distinction. His lyrical tribute to Google Local for mobile on the Google Blog has just replaced Vogon poetry as the third worst in the Universe. Congratulations on the development of a truly difficult skill.

Over the past few years, research has continued to prove the benefits of e-mail marketing for business: low costs, high conversion rates and detailed tracking are all notable features.

A benefit for the Food Bank of New York and the Lunchbox Fund includes lunchboxes with designs by a number of celebrities, one of which just happens to be the world’s richest man.

The thing about Santa’s helpers is that North Pole legislation disallows Papa Noel from outsourcing. That means you’re on your own with a mile-long list. That could be the reasoning behind Amazon.com’s “virtual gift assistant” offered through a new site it calls Gift Central.

You know it’s only a matter of time before governments begin regulating the search industry. Yale Law School is banking on it, holding a symposium next month to discuss the implications of the emerging online marketplace.

Working in the SEO/SEM industry can be very rewarding. Many times a problem can be solved simply with a little online research, and posts on a few forums.

Hey you. Yes, you. You know who you are. We thought you had taken care of these web writing “demons.” But it turns out you need a little reminder.

Yahoo has been giving pay-per-call a test drive in Yahoo Local, and using Ingenio’s service to provide the ads.

Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet will be in Washington on Wednesday. He was asked to speak at a House Committee meeting but blew them off to go hang out at the White House. It’s something about some Presidential Medal of Freedom. Anyway, while’s he not going to talk to Congress, he did send them a letter and it’s posted on Google’s blog.

Information is power. Google knows that. It also knows that information is money, lots of it. The up-until-recently-only-a search company has the world’s most powerful and wealthy corporations reexamining how they see life, the universe, and everything.

NBA owner and spam blog crusader Mark Cuban sees an opportunity to turn content piracy into content profitability…possibly.

One of the hottest topics in marketing is search marketing and many webmasters, company marketers and agencies are scrambling to acquire the knowledge necessary to serve their clients.

Kids are fighting authority and winning. In a recent case in New Jersey, a school district will pay out $117,500 to a student they punished for putting up his own website critical of the school district.