Hits series from ABC Television and the Disney Channel will be available online the day after broadcast.

eWeek reports that BlogBurst will launch on Tuesday and syndicate more than 600 bloggers to traditional newspaper publishers.

I know Google’s integration of Google Base, with its regular search results, hit most people’s news reader last week, but the company had been quietly integrating Google Base for a couple of weeks now.

I’m guessing that, were Nostradamus to write a book called Predicting for Idiots, one of his first guidelines to a budding prophet would be “keep it vague, young apprentice.”

Poor Planning Costs Owner Managers a Comfortable Retirement.

A student from Israel developed an advanced search algorithm, and his work landed him a job with Google and a windfall for the University of New South Wales.

Art imitating life, Web imitating print, and now it’s print imitating Web. Since December, says the Associated Press, Verizon has been testing an auction model in its printed Boston Yellow Pages.

Engadget links to a PDF with the full specs and accessories for the Samsung UMPC.

The big announcement today was … ABC is unveiling the new ABC.com to showcase the new theatre that will allow viewers to see certain ABC shows immediately the next day. That, in a way, is cool.

I’m at BSEC in Phoenix for the second year in a row. A conference where content as property is a comfortable notion, but where attendees are embracing disruption.

Guy Kawasaki* cranks out a top-10 list on “The Art Of Customer Service.” My favorite of the lot:

An interesting NYT article on how Google (and others) are forcing newspapers to change their approach to writing news headlines.

Upward movement with new beta versions of a couple of offline blog editors I’m trying out:

Jason Calacanis chastises the WSJ for not directly linking to bloggers. He wants the WSJ to give blogs the credit of a direct link rather than hiding behind Javascript code. That’s touching.

Not sure about what’s up south of the 49th, however, up here in Canada during TV coverage of the Masters, a TV ad just appeared telling people to logon to Remax.ca next month to search for real estate listings using Google Earth… pretty interesting…

Just returned from a whil-wind couple of days in Vegas to take in CTIA Wireless and the Navteq Challenge.

Headline findings from the 2005/2006 Communication ROI Study from employee benefits and HR consulting firm WatsonWyatt:

Adding to the calendar of events I’ll be speaking at during 2006 are two more I’ve agreed to take part in:

Europeans have rushed to grab a virtual home in cyberspace, says the BBC.

Consumer Generated Media (CGM) has been in the news the last couple days. Two items in particular caught my attention.

Traffic analysis is a key ingredient in online marketing success. The numbers, charts and graphs provided by your favorite web statistics software are invaluable.

Honda has announced it is adding in-car navigation systems powered by Google Earth, presumably the same systems Volkswagen has been reported to be developing for a little while.

As a continually evolving online marketplace continues to do just that, marketers are always looking for the next big thing. Those untapped markets that can help take them and their clients to the next level.

There’s a list of blogging terms on Wikipedia. It covers the more common phrases and words.