Yes, the ladies love cool Jeremy – and, now, there’s proof that NBC Universal loves the cool ladies as well as it bought iVillage for $600M.

Walmart is starting to use bloggers, this New York Times article says.

Fold is a Web 2.0 start page that looks promising.

Ray Ozzie just showed an audience at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference a new idea: clipboard for the Web.

I often get asked for web-based scheduling programs. I’ve done quite a few of them over the years, sometimes using scripts available from the web, but more often writing my own simply because I don’t like modifying other people’s code.

Danah Boyd wrote me last night and said she “vehemently disagrees” with my reporting that ugly design is behind MySpace’s success.

I’ve been saying for a long time that the race for “relevance” among search engines is over.

Submitting product data to comparison shopping sites and search engines can be a taxing process. Each engine has its own feed format and special requirements that create extra work and lower ROIs for retailers while reducing revenue and efficiency for the engines (especially the smaller ones). Understandably, then, a movement has begun to standardize the process.

An updated comment system for the Digg user-contributed news site offers several new features, including ratings for comments and a three-minute window to edit the comments one makes on a story.

As companies battle to win new customers and keep current ones, more companies wanting to leverage their sales and marketing strategies, strengthen their workforce, and utilize the best tools available, are making Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software choices.

I’m sitting in an airline lounge at Dulles, having just finished a talk on new media to the annual gathering of US Army Public Affairs officers.

Six time best selling author, Seth Godin speaks to Google as part of their Authors@Google series.

One of the areas of online marketing and PR that continues to gain interest is buzz marketing through blogs and similar consumer generated media.

After stirring up the search engine world with comments that MSN Search will be more relevant than Google in six months, Microsoft Europe president Neil Holloway backpedaled from his remarks.

Precise demographic targeting is the wave of the future, and adCenter has delivered an advanced platform that’s poised to deliver enormous value to search marketers.

Microsoft’s adCenter PPC ad platform has excited search marketers since it appeared in beta form last year. Why? Because for the first time, we can target searchers by age, gender and to some extent, by lifestyle.

Katie Paine has conceded a point to Shel Israel: As cheap as they are to set up and maintain, there’s really no need to measure the ROI of blogs.

A powerful combination of the leading operating system and networking system companies yielded an agreement to develop real-time communication services for the enterprise.

Gary Price reports that the Associated Press has launched a video network, the shockingly named “AP Online Video Network”.

The browser business isn’t a half bad place to be, it seems.

The Search Engine Journal “Search Engine T-Shirt Contest” will be announcing winners soon.

While some may want the “press release is dead” meme to end, the discussion could wind up producing some worthwhile ideas.

FeedBucket is another Web based RSS reader.

At the New Communications Forum last week, pretty much everybody agreed that blogs were no fad, but wikis evoked a less enthusiastic response.

There’s been a lot of debate about why RSS usage has been slow to take off among mainstream Internet consumers.