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No RSS feeds either!

Mathew, that completely untrue. Mike has been caught too many times trying to conceal his conflicts of interest.
http://www.valleywag.com/tech/techcrunch/disclo...

What new? How is this different than TechCrunch? Mike brags that conflict of interest is what makes TechCrunch great. You link to him all the time? How come you aren't asking Mike to leave TechCrunch?

Consider Yahoo!'s supreme ability to kill all good Web 2.0 startups they buy, the Diggers should be safe ;-)

Did Jeremy mention in the podcast that he uses YPN instead of AdSense because Google doesn't allow its publishers to spam?

BTW, MyBlogLog is hanging up your blog.

Thanks for reading those for me ;-)

I think we're all biased, but I could be wrong. NOT!

That's weird. They previously announced they were profitable.

Eric, I could substitute laundry with divorce.

The fact that no venture money was involved, made the transaction a lot easier. $10M is a drop in the bucket for Yahoo! They bought hits that are growing. And the founders got a quick penny. Sounds like a win-win.

I'd like to report blogspot.com. They have thousands of splogs.

It's particularly funny hearing Mike talk about agendas and conflict of interests, while he brags that TechCrunch is all about conflict of interests.

I tried the Microsoft promotion and got error after error and gave up.

Mathew, I think the point is that LinkedIn is NOT MySpace for grown ups. They aren't trying to do the same things that Facebook or Flickr are doing. LinkedIn is solely about professional connections and nothing more. If they added the missing elements you want, then they lose their niche.

Swarmcast was open source and not proprietary. Swarmcast was not developed in Toronto, but was purchased by Opencola, which never did anything significant with it other than sink it. I believe you are also wrong about Justin re-purchasing the IP.

Dave, you were right, you were right about river-of-news. Tell your sister you were right.

I need a grammar checker real bad :-(

I interview Wendell of Splice a couple days ago.
http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20060908045523

Hehe, I always thought the biggest drawback of gada.be is that he makes the ads look like the primary results. It's effectively a click trap. Almost 50% of the visible screen is ads. But that doesn't stop BOGUmeisters from sucking up to Chris.

Cool! Too many links :-(

Robert, where did my comment go?

The AdSense API is not a new thing. It's been around for at least six months and is in wide use by larger publishers like about.com.

http://www.kbcafe.com/adwords/default.aspx?sear...

Google simply doesn't make the existence of this API public.

Jim, as per Josh's post. Look into section targeting.
https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answ...

So, Technorati is allowed to monetize your page and nobody else?

Pete, your argument makes no sense. Why is Technorati allows to monetize your blog and not Feedpass or others?
http://www.technorati.com/blogs/mashable.com
This sounds like a lot of unfair bashing.