There is an interesting discussion evolving online on Web 2.0 startups and their initial planning and development.Jeremy Wright:
It’s funny, because you’d think companies would have learned this lesson years ago. I remember back in the mid part of the .com boom I spent 2 days with Amazon optimizing their front-end code (HTML, JS, CSS, etc). [...]

More and more search and ad providers are turning to pay-per-call to lift their ad revenues, especially with the price of keywords dropping recently.  InfoSpace is adding Ingenio’s pay-per-call ads soon.
Barach said that the partnership with Infospace shows that pay-per-call is gaining momentum as an ad medium. "We’re starting to see the tipping point and [...]

Local Live from Microsoft utilizes low-flying planes to capture their images within their mapping.  Am I the only person who thinks this sounds really costly?
Microsoft is expected to go live later today with a  local version of its Windows Live service,
according to an analyst briefed on the initiative. Microsoft Windows
Live Local, powered by Virtual Earth, [...]

While Travelocity should be commended for offering RSS feeds, take a look at their feeds.
They look great, offering you a way to watch fares on any city you regularly travel.  This makes sense for them and really offers a good service for their users.
However, Randy, at the RSS Blog, found this to be the case:
I [...]

I had an epiphany this morning as I was reading my feeds.  With this story on Sun and their newest open source project, open source hardware, I was offered two options when I chose to do more research.

The Corporate ReleaseThe official company press release was not appealing to me.  I glossed right over it onto [...]

Not counting free downloads, Apple’s highly successful music and podcatching software, iTunes, has hit another amazing launch number.  Remember, back in June the launch of their podcatching service, iTunes 4.9, brought them 1 million downloads in 2 days.
Now, reports are pouring in, most recently from Macworld UK, that iTunes has now sold 3 million videos.  [...]

Human Capital Retention, or the ability to retain knowledge assets after their original possessors leave a company via retirement or relocation, is poised to become a major issue in the coming years as increasing numbers of baby boomers approach retirement.  Your company should put in place now a system for assessing its knowledge assets, for [...]