Anti-Google sentiment is on the rise. Web pundits have tossed around monopoly theories and privacy advocates have warned of a day of reckoning.

Yahoo!’s got some splainin’ to do after a lawsuit filed in New Jersey alleging that the search marketing company not only charged premium PPC rates for ads appearing on spyware, typosquatter, and parked domain sites, but also pumped up the volume of ads served to boost financial reports.

Dave Chiu and Didier Hilhorst are proposing the rollout of a special personal reputation management system called RentAThing that would follow you wherever you go both online and off.

A subset of the PR 2.0 Gang that Brian Oberkirch originally assembled at the NewComm Forum, regrouped earlier this week to talk about the social media services gap and some related challenges facing PR agencies today (podcast here).

While I was at dinner tonight with the LiveSide guys Jason Bogovich called, his voice full of excitement.

The technology company will make $70 million in vouchers available to several municipal governments in California that complained of being overcharged by Microsoft.

Skype launched a new beta (version 2.5.0.72) today of its software for Windows that has some pretty neat new features.

The scribes at MoreThanDerby.com want bloggers to understand the salient differences between blogging and the greatest horse race in the world.

If you are interested in RSS industry benchmark metrics, RSS marketing best practices and want to compare your RSS marketing results with those of your peers, then you will be interested in the 2006 RSS Marketing Survey being conducted by MarketingStudies.net.

Napster is back in full effect, kind of. A recent article in USA Today discussed its new ad supported model. Now visitors can come to Napster and listen to music absolutely free.

What you should know before signing up with a voice over IP provider.

A pugnacious pursuer of ColdFusion information can discover knowledge and product tips through podcasts available online.

Last week, I posted commentary about an article by John Lloyd in the Financial Times on the relationship – I used the word symbiosis: check the definition – between journalism and PR in politics.

It’s MySpace for cars and hotties. Wait, what did they say it was? Oh, “a new media channel and social-networking community geared toward the fast growing automotive scene while incorporating other youth lifestyle elements like music and fasion.” Right, MySpace for cars and hotties.

A two-sentence post from research firm Gartner has caused some uproar in the technology world, as Gartner researchers claim Microsoft will miss its release of Vista by three months, pushing it back into 2007.

Ready. Set. Flinch. The same senator who fought for the $223 million bridge to Nowhere, Alaska is in charge of rewriting United States telecommunications laws in the Senate. In a working draft of an amendment to the Communications Act of 1934, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens has confused just about everybody.

One programmer blogged about the powerful attraction he is feeling to C# programming, and departing from six years of tinkering with Python.

Version 1.5.0.3 represents an update to the Firefox web browser that patches a denial of service vulnerability eight days after it was reported.

This is one of the cooler (albeit less useful) Google Maps mashups: ASCII Maps.

My amigo del fuego John T. Unger has some good news for Typepad users.

ZDNet reports that Microsoft has canceled plans to include RSA SecurID tokens in Windows Vista, a two year old goal that never quite worked out.

This week I learned a very important lesson with RSS. Particularly with FeedBurner.

Didn’t make it to Vegas for Borth America’s largest wireless industry trade show?

TW points to a Washington Post article on a recently filed class action lawsuit against Yahoo for click fraud.