Subscribers to Times Select have nearly reached the level forecast by the company, while advertising revenues increased for the publisher as well.

The beta test for Google’s offline tool is invitation only at the moment, but the free management utility for Windows users should gain a large following when it goes public.

Steve Crescenzo, the ultimate critic of crummy CEO and president columns (you know the ones; they used to appear on the inside front cover of employee magazines and sound like they all dealt with the same topic and were written by the same bedraggled communicator) thinks CEO communication has turned a corner.

Sex.com, a domain that’s been passed around a bit in its checkered history, was sold to an anonymous group of business partners for a reported $12-14 million in cash and stock, making it one of the highest selling domains in history.

At Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Strategies keynote speech he lamented that the industry is so fragmented.

Some developers in the Linux community have taken the discussion about the new General Public License terms to a contentious point: using it for the next Linux kernel, while a greater challenge over DRM looms.

Lots of people at Search Champs were discussing Yahoo’s CFO, Susan Decker’s quote that Yahoo is okay being second to Google.

ColdFusion MX7 got a nice boost earlier on Tuesday when Software Development magazine announced the finalists for their Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards. The Adobe owned software was one of seven finalists in the Web Development Tools category.

When news of a security breach at CardSystems Solutions that potentially exposed some 40 million credit card accounts to outsiders began to circulate the company was vilified by Visa and MasterCard for retaining data they had no right to keep.

There’s an interesting thread at Performancing about SEO and PR, as in public relations, not page rank that offers different viewpoints on how search engine optimization and public relations work together and as stand alone tactics.

Local Search Marketing provides you, the business owner, with the most targeted and cost effective customer acquisition opportunity.

US Senator Pat Leahy (D-Vt) has sent a written request to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for more information about Justice’s legal action against Google.

An interesting conversation started on podcasts vs. webinars at the Church of the Customer Blog.

One may feel sorry for Yahoo CFO Susan Decker, whose comments in an interview regarding Yahoo’s place in the search world, ie second to Google, have generated a heated response in the Yahoo Search Blog. Maybe Decker’s comments in her chat with Bloomberg were taken out of context, as some bloggers have suggested.

Brad Hill points out that Google Video’s home page now shows 24 little thumbnails of stuff you can purchase.

So was Susan Decker’s quote taken out of context?

Alex Soojung-Kim and David Pescovitz’s article in Wired on Cyberspace is Dead now has a blog:

Google announced that it was launching Google.cn, a censored version of Google for people living in China.

Big city residents have to deal with a problem those of us in smaller cities don’t encounter as often: the dearth of available parking spaces; one website in development will offer San Franciscans a way to find some open spaces online.

Andy “I’m Not Jennifer” Beal says that Google is preventing users from navigating beyond the first page of results when searching for anything Google using Internet Explorer.

According to the Yahoo! Buzz Index, podcasts haven’t yet captured the interest of mainstream consumers.

One of the most common questions I get from CCNA and CCNP candidates who are setting up their own home labs is “What cables will I need?”

The 2006 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum begins today in Davos, Switzerland.

Mahlon at BuyGoogle reports that Google’s stock has bounced back, reaching as high as $454 today (its now $436), recovering most of what it lost last week when it fell to $400.