Rob Hof succinctly describes a new service priming for launch called Edgeio.

Wayne Inouye has ejected from the personal computer manufacturer and deployed a $720,000 golden parachute to soften his landing.

AlwaysOn shares some interesting survey data on employers’ blog policies.

Um, I see an article in the Wall Street Journal about some bloggers who are getting compensated by Fon for being part of their board of directors or advisors or stuff like that.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, go-to guys for legal issues in Web 2.0, have recommended against using the latest version of Google Desktop.

The team at classified search engine Oodle have just proposed a new microformat for classified ads.

Gary Price is moving on from Search Engine Watch, taking a job as Director of Online Information Resources for AskJeeves, which sounds like a very cool position, so congratulations are in order.

It appears Yahoo is resorting to bribing users of other search engines to switch to Yahoo Search.

Seth answers the question “how can I get more traffic?” by questioning the word “get” in the question.

Never has “all bark and no bite” been more appropriate than news that, just days after Verizon seemingly challenged Google’s free ride of phone companies’ infrastructure, the telecom giant is backing down.

Google has added high-resolution imagery of Turin, Italy, to Google Earth and Google Local, so you can see lots of interesting terrain around the Olympic Games.

As you can well see, I stay away from the rumor mill both here and at the Corante Web Hub. So when everyone got in on the Yahoo! buying Digg talk, I steered clear.

While total and compound annual returns are useful, savvy investors will look deeper, using a variety of metrics, to get a more complete picture on mutual fund performance.

One new feature in the latest version of Google’s information-laden Desktop product will get a lot of attention from users in the wake of Google’s fight with the Department of Justice over user privacy and trade secrets.

The Yahoo My Web 2.0 team delivered several functionality updates and performance tweaks to its bookmark sharing site.

This is a good warning for entrepreneurs. Think that getting talked about on blogs is a good thing?

Marketing Sherpa’s Email Marketing Summit is coming up in Chicago April 20th and 21st.

A rumour is circulating that says Lycos has laid off most of its search team and is retaining a skeleton crew to keep its beleaguered services operating.

Via MarketingVox…

Fresh from ClickZ comes news that Agency.com’s CEO Don Scales has resigned due to “strategic differences” – I wonder if that’s the same as “philosophical differences“.

Site publishers who have wondered why certain ads appear where they do in their AdSense blocks can learn about that in Google’s latest AdSense blog post.

Not exactly marketing related, but Brian Tucker did ask (very politely) if I would take a look at The Blogcast Repository.

Worried that when you comment on a blog, you’ll either forget about the conversation or, worse still, your comment will be an orphan, left to fend for itself?

Garett Rogers at ZDNet notices that hidden within Gmail source code are hints that Google is developing a future version of Gmail, “Caribou”, that will allow people to point their domain DNS servers at Google to use Gmail.