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Topix.net's Rich Skrenta said that Google is the environment and not the competition in search; Yahoo, Ask, and Microsoft have been working to define a new environment where the top of the search results delivers what a person wants to know.

The big announcement today was ... ABC is unveiling the new ABC.com to showcase the new theatre that will allow viewers to see certain ABC shows immediately the next day. That, in a way, is cool.

Services like eDonkey have picked up the load for file sharers as a result of law enforcement action against illegal "tracker" sites.

Broadband access through TV cable could smoke the competition shortly with predictions of 100 megabits-a-second download speeds as early next year. This is 50 time faster than average download speeds on the market now.

Here we go again. It's search engine earthquake time. It's of smaller magnitude on the imaginary SEO Richter scale, maybe a 3.5, but newsworthy none-the-less.

Personal video recorders, PVR's, are hot. So hot in fact, they are making a significant contribution in the frying of consumers' attention spans. What's an advertiser to do when the most affluent customers aren't compelled to watch TV commercials and are, in fact, actively avoiding them?