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Really good article

THE fledgling R.S.S. business is starting to attract some attention from those catering to Internet advertisers.

Google, Pheedo, Feedster and Yahoo Search Marketing are all peddling advertising options for R.S.S., an increasingly popular way of having a personal computer automatically retrieve information from the Internet.

For example, R.S.S. users interested in local weather could view forecast updates on their computers without having to visit a particular Web site.

Some big companies, like Verizon, are starting to buy space in the R.S.S. information streams, which are selected anonymously and pulled from Web sites by a PC.

please read the rest of this article from NY Times

Ynot has a good article about the new coming XXX domains…

US Commerce Department Maintains Authority to Block XXX Domain Name Extension

A 2003 report by comScore Networks stated that 40 million Americans had visited an online dating site, and JupiterResearch reported early this year that industry revenue will reach $516 million in 2005.

from New York Times