The Third Thursday posse recently met with Media Survey’s Sam Whitmore to record a podcast for Tech Media This Week (listen here).

The largest search provider in the world’s most populous country posted first quarter profits this Tuesday. Baidu.com Inc., in which the American search provider Google owns a minority stake, also experienced strong sales and an increase in share prices of nearly 22 percent.

New guidelines have become available for podcasters with the intent of helping them avoid legal woes. The Podcasting Legal Guide specifically addresses issues related to remixing audio clips that may or may not be the legal property of the podcaster.

Fathers, print out this study and keep it to prove to your daughters that boys are evil and that a convent may be they’re only hope. According to a University of Maryland study, chat room members with female user names receive 25 times more threatening or explicit private messages.

Lots of bloggers at Google Press Day. One working exceptionaly hard to post all the comments, is Google’s own Matt Cutts.

Verizon says not to worry, they’ve got Net Neutrality covered. They’re quite appalled, too, at the “cock-and-bull” and “Chicken Little stories” making the rounds in Congress and the press, which is why they’ve launched an aggressive PR campaign aimed at transcending the “rhetorical excesses” of their opponents.

The networking company saw its year over year revenue for the third quarter of 2006 improve by 18 percent but net income felt the impact of stock-based compensation expense and ended up matching last year’s reported net income.

Something for those of you working in the field…

I do like BSD OSEs, but I think the most interesting thing about the release of PC-BSD is that the download page incudes a VMware image.

Incorporating a business has several advantages. Some of these advantages include: protecting the assets of the shareholders and officers, protecting the assets of the business from shareholder and officers actions, improving the image of the company, separating your personal and business credit and saving money on taxes.

Bill Gates has “adopted” three seniors at Arizona’s Blue Ridge High School, promising to pay for all of their education and expenses for the next ten years, right up through a doctorate decree.

Google has launched a new blog for it’s Google Book Search product.

The Java Community Process (JCP) gave the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 specification its complete approval ahead of the JavaOne Conference.

What does it mean? First, it means I lost money. Both were good ESG clients. I’m sure you feel sorry.

Skype, Microsoft, AIM, Yahoo, Lycos, all of those companies have or will have options for doing phone calls from the computer; at stake is the biggest prize of all – keeping a person using a given provider’s other services.

The Massachusetts Information Technology Division has issued a request for information for an “OpenDocument Format Plug-in for Microsoft Office Suite,” a move likely to infuriate Microsoft.

The file sharing BitTorrent system landed its first major Hollywood studio customer, as Warner Bros agreed to distribute movies and TV programs using BitTorrent’s technology.

Google may want to organize the world’s information, but Microsoft wants to let you know how long you’re going to have to wait for a table at Red Lobster on Friday evening.

Cost deflection strategies deteriorate customer loyalty.

Rakesh Agrawal, President and CEO of Snapstream, decided to experiment switching from Microsoft Outlook to Google’s Gmail for all of his email, including business email.

I’d like this article, “Sales and The CEO,” by Jeff Thull author of Mastering the Complex Sale.

A large percentage of the U.S. is still dialing up Internet service, especially in rural areas where broadband is unavailable due to lack of infrastructure. The expense of laying that infrastructure has Internet providers looking to satellite-based services as a work-around.

Elinor Mills looks at how online advertising has grown-up over the past few years.

Almost two years ago I wondered about the negative aspects of companies like IBM and HP trying to control Linux by hiring top Linux developers.