Controlling your social network advertising may get simpler with the addition of MySpace’s self-service ad platform, launched in public beta this week. The platform is available for use by individuals and companies to promote themselves ...

Randall Stross at The New York Times goes to bat for the Google/Yahoo search marketingdeal, saying there’s “nothing to fear” from the two companies linking their search products. I believe most of his analysis is wrong, and he also skips the publisher side of the market entirely. In short, I feel that he is exactly wrong in [...]

SocialThing, a lifestreaming/social aggregation site, has been acquired by AOL. We currently have no information about the final price of the acquisition, but given that SocialThing was still in private beta, we assume that it was relatively low. SocialThing was founded in 2007 with $15,000 in seed capital from TechStars. AOL seems to be rather [...]

Seven months after Google began testing a service called Knol, a Wikipedia competitor, the company on Wednesday finally rolled it out. Knol is described as “Like Wikipedia, With Moderation.” Articles on various topics are penned by individuals, and in many cases, experts — not collectively by the anonymous masses. Knol authors can choose to benefit [...]