How’s this for a place to shop – a site “where stores compete to lower your price.” That’s the concept behind Jellyfish, a “new kind of search engine” that shares ad revenue with buyers. Right now, it’s only in beta form, but the site already offers “1000′s of stores.”

It’s nice when a study comes out confirming what you already know. A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology revealed that just over half of email recipients were able to discern sarcasm within the text.

ClickZ looks at a new study from the Nielsen/Norman Group which finds internet users still suffer from “banner blindness”; the condition that rich media advertisers find most annoying.

Want to know why your competitor’s website is so successful? Hitwise unveiled a service today that gives clients a glimpse into what your nemesis is doing right. Called Hitwise Conversions, the data reporting service outlines how online users navigate within specific sections of competitive websites.

Avinash doesn’t post to his blog every day, but when he does post, he usually has something interesting to say.

More on the Second Life conference that took place on Friday:

The Web deserves professional management because the Web is central to the future of the organization.

Interesting threads on an internal Microsoft alias today. Employees are questioning why we (Microsoft employees) can’t just own up to the truth and stop spinning when we have bad news to report.

A selection of content on Google Video has been made available for free as advertisers have signed on to support those videos. “Free video made possible by www.bk.com,” reads the text above the Google Video replay of the Hatton-Maussa fight from last November.

Nearly a week after Yahoo! launched its “Ask the Planet” promotion for its Yahoo! Answers service, the company posted a reminder about the additional languages the service would include – and girl drink recipe to go with it.

A New York legislator with an apparent history of odd child-protection measures (like a war on tanning beds) has dropped his lawsuit alleging that Google is the “world’s largest facilitator and distributor of child pornography.”

Looks like Boeing is giving up on Wifi in planes because they’ve lost a billion and don’t see that their investment will come back. Funny, didn’t JetBlue just pay big dollars to add that to all their planes?

Actionscript is a very powerful language made by macromedia. Learning actionscript can be tricky until you get your mind thinking the same way actionscript does.

CDC Software isn’t happy about losing out to M2M Holdings for acquiring Onyx Software and has sent letters to the board of directors of Onyx and to the Securities and Exchange Commission to bolster its case for acquisition and is threatening to take the matter to court.

The Federal Trade Commission has been touted by a group of high-tech and other industry powers as the best choice to enforce any federal privacy laws that pass, but the agency has a little problem safeguarding its data too.

The best way to win an auction online is to wait as late as possible in the auction before submitting a bid, a method scientists have unsurprisingly discovered works best.

Sacre bleu! The French have unveiled a website known as Geoportal that is intended to rival Google Earth. The European counterpart will have more detailed images than its American-based competitor, but its scope will be limited to within French borders.

Just received a message regarding the Google maps discussion group which is now expanding and branching out into several new areas… details follow:

I use Gmail for both my personal and business e-mail. The business side of things is relatively new (within the last month or so).

Your e-mail inbox probably receives several of them each day. Some you open and read, while others are deleted, without a second thought.

Google published an array of tips and tools to help webmasters better analyze their web offerings. In addition to a Sitemaps update that creates a more robust view of 404 errors, Google Analytics reminds the ROI-minded of how to compare AdWords clicks to organic and direct links.

The popular comumunity news website Digg will make new verticals and added features part of its next revision, which debuts on June 26th.

This is not written by a professional lawyer or anyone close to one. It is written by a typical business owner of a successful web development company who has no law degree or the budget to hire a lawyer to write a web development contract.

Search engine optimization (SEO) gets them to the site. What they do (or don’t do) once SEO has done its job is up to the site owner or designer.