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GigaOM, SiliconBeat, and TechCrunch have the scoop. My pal Chris is the VP of Sales and Market.
From Matt Marshall:

Skyrider, a Mountain View start-up, is developing technology that will be able to search peer-to-peer traffic, in order to help media and other companies become more profitable.The two-year old company has raised $8 million [...]

Check out her photos on Flickr. (via 37 signals)
Very impressive, but you have to wonder how much revenue she is leaving on the table by not hosting her photos on her own. That is, of course, if she would be interested in taking on, say, some sponsors on her site.
I guess it begs the question, [...]

It is bright, cute, user-friendly, and it definitely confirms the idea of blog search as a portal.
Niall Kennedy points out some of the walled garden features:
Unlike many other search sites Technorati’s link structure seems designed to keep people within its pages. A linked blog post title on the site homepage points to a URL search [...]

Nick Carr, wrote a piece entitled No Room on the Web, regarding the lack of quality advertising inventory available online.
By contrast, there’s plenty of supply available for banner ads. The problem here is that advertisers don’t much like the space that’s available, particularly the space that’s near user-generated content: “The complex task of spreading media [...]

In the absence of a Peet’s in Sausalito I have been reduced to drinking Starbucks again. (yes, life is hard)
After a weeks worth of terrible lattes and drips, I have started to think….. Was Strabucks Peets, before Peet’s was Peet’s? Or has Starbucks always been this bad?
I think there is definitely something to be said [...]

The top 3 links on a search for World Cup in Google will give you all outbound links to other sections of Google. Smart business move, but not necesarilly a search engine. Maybe Fifa will rethink its partnership with Yahoo, if over 50% of searches around the world are being done through Google. They can’t [...]