One blogger found that a trio of potential revenue streams simply did not work for him; he did credit paid sponsor ads for their help.

Barry at SEL reports: MSN UK put a prefill in a search box, touting The Apprentice on BBC. Ouch!

AOL and TopCoder, Inc., today announced the Web AIM Mashup Competition. Web AIM is AOL’s new APIs that enables users to integrate AIM features directly into web sites and online communities.

Every blog has “sponsors” these days, but only Marketing Pilgrim brings you Pilgrim Partners. These are more than just companies that help pay the bills – although that helps – but great companies that we recommend our readers check out.

Give Yahoo credit for listening to the needs and requests of their advertisers. The company has launched in response to growing demands from advertisers.

Roxanne, who does the Beach Walks videoblog, has a great set of guidelines for big companies who are sponsoring videos, podcasts, and other things online.

Amsterdam-based online payment services provider ChronoPay, B.V. announced its official corporate sponsorship of osCommerce, an open source online e-commerce software company.

My wife knew that I’d be hooked on the new reality TV show, Treasure Hunters, the moment they announced Ask.com would be the official search engine of the show – team “Miss USA” was not an influence in any way, honey .

Google has added its name to a list of sponsors that includes Lenovo and Sun Microsystems, all of whom are joining an initiative to fight “badware,” a collective term for spyware, malware, and adware.

The professional gaming circuit, and yes there is one, will see some groups get sponsorship deals.

AMD is sponsoring the 2005 North American Solar Challenge (NASC). This is a competition, in which people design, build, and race solor-powered cars across the U.S. and Canada.

I had an email overnight from Pete Quily in Canada telling me about We’re Not Afraid, a blog set up last week following the London bombings that publishes photos from people around the world who aren’t afraid…

The annual Blog Business Summit is scheduled for August 17 – 19 2005 in San Francisco, California, USA.

Microsoft and Volvo today announced that the car company is now advertising on the MSN Spaces blogging platform. The new campaign includes a micro site that enables consumers to find interesting content within the MSN community.

Congrats to Eric Rice. He secured Warner Brothers as a podvertiser for his podcast.

Cisco Systems announced a sponsorship of MIT Media Lab’s Digital Life Consortium, further expanding its strategic relationship with MIT.

You’ve seen the ads. Let me sponsor you. Mentor Available. Now the latest is, coach. What’s the difference?

As always, I like to start with dictionary definitions and take it from there.