Here are a few articles
that caught my eye today.

David Pogue of the New
York Times did a comprehensive review of the new iPods and iTunes movie
download service.  Neat stuff! 

Disney
reported that there were 125,000 downloads, $1M revenue, in the first week
their movies were available on iTunes.

Yahoo reported that a slow
down in ad sales will impact their Q3 earnings and their stock
proceeded to fall by 11%. This has some
wondering if Google and others will follow. 

YouTube is trying to “make
nice” with copyright
owners.

Google is also running
into some copyright
issues in
Belgium. 

Easton Ellsworth of
BusinessBlogWire has been reviewing
Fortune 500 corporate blogs. If your
company is interested in blogging, Easton offers some great insights on what to do and what not to do.  He also regularly highlights resources that support blogging.   

Escape from
Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim often explores
the transitions we go through when becoming entrepreneurs. Today’s
post was very insightful.

Matthew Stibbe of Bad Language points us to an
article in The Economist on in-flight briefings. This
is how they would sound if airlines were honest with us.

Finally, Dogster.com
received an angel investment of $1M.

“The site has about
250,000 users (or 200,000 dogs, as the home page proclaims). Dogs, presumably
aided by their human companions, may register for free or premium accounts,
post photos, write in online diaries or use the forums to discuss issues from
health and obedience to fashion and movies.”

Yes, that’s right – a “social” network for dogs. There’s a catster.com and a hamsterster.com too. I’m not kidding. 

Enjoy!