Moby for MySpace Music

Ad Networks and Analytics:

• Startups whose profit models are wedded to advertising ought to find a Plan B. Believe it or not, there isn't enough advertising to go around.
• Acquisio, which vends pay-per-click management software Acquisio SEARCH, now fully supports Microsoft AdCenter.

Agencies and Marketing Execs:

• Avenue A/Razorfish is changing its name to Razorfish. The company bore both names since 2004 — at which time Avenue A's parent aQuantive purchased SBI.Razorfish — even though it operates as a single entity. "Although both Avenue A and Razorfish are excellent choices as standalone brands," said CEO Clark Kokich, "the Razorfish name enjoys stronger brand equity around the world."

Biz Buzz:

• Boxee.tv — an application that Apple TV users can install in their units — now has support for Hulu, CBS and Comedy Central, enabling people to consume internet-streamed content on televisions.
• Digital media firm Mediasmith launched M3, "a customizable blueprint that integrates Emerging Media Technologies, Social Media, and Search," the company stated.
• Real estate appraisal site Zillow is cutting 25 percent of its staff.
• The Digital Entertainment Corporation of America — which "[bridges] the gap between Hollywood, Madison Avenue and Silicon Valley" — just celebrated its one-year anniversary with Boing Boing TV. The company recently signed cewebrity YouTube duo Smosh.
• Joost appeals to Madison Avenue for resuscitation.

Campaigns of Note:

• MySpace is promoting the launch of MySpace Music with a print campaign showcasing artists, their favorite playlists, and links to their profile pages. This is MySpace's first offline ad campaign.
• Shortly after launching an eco-friendly ecommerce site, eBay's embarked on a vocal campaign to ban sales of ivory goods.

Gaming:

• Sony has halted the sale of video game LittleBigPlanet after revelations that the background music contained phrases from the Koran. An altered version of the game will go on sale October 29th (US) and November 3rd (UK).

Legal, Government and Regulation:

• Rumor has it the Google/Yahoo search liaison will not go through.
• The New York Times attributes Google's inability to push its Yahoo deal past the DoJ to its naivété about Washington politics — a problem Microsoft does not have.
• Microsoft won a patent to censor profanity in real-time across audio streams.

Mobile:

• Mobile becomes the (not-so-)new vehicle for up-to-the-minute celebrity gossip.
• The Associated Press (AP) launched a mobile news network for BlackBerry.

Search:

• Google explores what users searched during the third Presidential debate.
• Seven search tools worth knowing about.
• Quintura — which developed the visual-based interactive tag cloud — is launching a search platform in the US market today.

Social Networks:

• Learn how to keep your Facebook profile professional.
• Social media crimes of passion: A south London man killed his wife after she changed her Facebook status to "single" — mere days after he moved out. The man will serve a minimum term of 14 years in jail.
• Berlin-based virtual worlds firm Second Interest inked an agreement with Metaversum to develop content for Twinity, a mirror world that launched in public beta recently.
• Muxlin.com plans to launch a virtual world for the Muslim community.
• Make Magazine launched Twitter support to better engage users.

User Experience:

• Some users are suffering from a skin rash that results from too much mobile use, according to the British Association of Dermatologists.
• Job seekers have a new worry: online resume theft. If your internet identity defines you to employers, what's to stop others from stealing your information and peddling it as their own?
• Pro-blogger? Consider libel insurance.