They say both good and bad things come in threes. Historically, Google updates have provided both good and bad things for search engine optimizers, though generally not in that order.

This week’s big Google news – or supposed news – is the launch of Google Base. It’s a hot, fun story on Memeorandum, and it’s getting the usual too much buzz and hype on Blogs.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the US Dept. of Commerce backed overseer of the Internet has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought on by VeriSign, the governor of all things .com and .net, over ICANN’s interference with VeriSign’s controversial Site Finder.

Randy Morin says Google has not been acting on his diligent spam reporting, with SpamSense accounts and Splogger sites still active.

Adam Yates from the PR team at Fujifim writes in that his company has just lanunched a new corporate-sponsored blog …

It’s currently just a US rollout, but users can order prints by mail, or have them printed at a local Target store.

Photo portal Flickr now offers printing services for the however many zillions of photos they have on their site. The service is available either through mail or for pickup at Target with one-hour printing.

Just in time for the holidays, online auctioneer eBay has made an intense marketing push to let people know where they can get “it.” What is it? It’s a domain name, WhatIs-It.com, for starters. And, it’s viral marketing, an area where we haven’t seen eBay play in before now.

Heh, Bill is giving me lots of stuff to talk about tonight at a certain party at a certain Mountain View, CA location that I’m not allowed to blog about. Sorry, not my rules.

TypePad seems to creaking under the strain of its own success. For some weeks now, I’ve been observing (and experiencing) constant server timeout problems when posting to this blog.

Meta-search engine Jux2, which was put up for sale on eBay last week with a starting bid of one cent, finally sold for $101,100.

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced it too was going to begin the digitalization of as many published works as possible.

Vint Cerf just said hi. He was telling me about his first day at work at Google. He wore what he called the “evangelism robes”.

The names long associated with telecommunications worldwide since the telegraph was in vogue will appear again as SBC Communications redubs itself AT&T.

The search engine company sent an executive to keynote the wrapup of the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo; Adam Bosworth noted the move to web services in his talk.

Microsoft, Google, or even Yahoo could emerge as the frontrunner to partner with AOL in a deal worth billions to Time Warner.

Lately I have been thinking a lot about the future of RSS. There’s certainly a lot right with it, but something very big is missing – RSS expression – and this spells opportunity.

Infrared LEDs form the core of a product that will be very popular with film studios and movie theater chains, as it thwarts the filming of movies playing on-screen.

When Google blog search launched in September, it only indexed blog posts from about mid 2005 …

As Matt Cutts sadly points out, David Karandish, a young online marketing whiz, just got cut from his Martha Stewart Apprentice team.

Have you heard about the latest “sport” in dirty online business? It’s called Google Bowling and it represents a gaping flaw in Google’s system that allows your competitors to sabotage your site to the point of getting it banned or penalized.

ISDN is a vital topic for today’s CCNA and CCNP candidates, especially for the ICND and Intro exams – you’ve got to know ISDN inside and out to pass those exams. Naturally you want to include it in your home lab.