Voice services: coming
soon to Y! Messenger!

Ad Networks and Analytics:

• MediaBank released v2.0 of its analytics platform, adding widgets and other new formats into the system, and decreasing reliance on manual information entry.
• One True Media is adding Spot Mixer, a DIY video ad creation tool, to its arsenal.
• Google might relaunch MeasureMap, a blog analytics service it has quietly owned, as an add-on to Google Analytics.
• AdMob has launched Mobile Analytics, a free feature for advertisers and mobile website publishers.

Agencies and Execs:

• The growth of Digitas puts Publicis on pace to be 20 percent digital by year's end.
• Technology Leaders has added Pelin Wood to its board of directors. Wood is a managing partner at Aegean Group and former VP of WebSideStory.
• Aegis reported significant growth in operations, thanks in part to expanded new media business.
• AAAA and Howard University have partnered to provide the ad industry with fresh research and more drinking — er, professional development opportunities.

Broadband and Wi-Fi:

• British Telecom it will be testing Phorm's behavioral targeting ad platform.
• AT&T is launching a TV-on-wireless service. It will feature content unavailable on Verizon or anywhere else.

E-Commerce:

• Amazon has (predictably) objected to New York State's plan to collect sales tax on inbound purchases made online.

Music:

• erockstar is a new indie/mainstream music portal from parent company Clear Channel.

Online Content:

• Feedburner now allows publishers to log into its RSS management tools from Google accounts. It may also incorporate AdSense in feeds.
• Dr. Pepper will run its first high-def video ad on AOL's network. The ads will appear in banners, where high definition video adoption is still weak.
• NBC 4 Now is using Twitter to deliver news more quickly.
• MSN will syndicate video from Italian broadcaster Mediaset across its network.
• Michael Eisner is producing a new online video series: an adaptation of Robin Cook's novel, Foreign Body.
• MySpaceTV now features re-edited classic shows as well as a host of original programming.
• Online site TMZ was critiqued for revealing the photo and name of a 14-year-old minor who had sex with an adult. He is reportedly the son of a movie star.

Search:

• Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes Yahoo is considering a liaison, following a reportedly successful partnership between them.
• Microsoft has set aside $1.5 billion, earmarked for the retention of Yahoo employees should it prove successful in its takeover.

Tools and Software:

• Yahoo will provide Jajah-based voice service to Messenger users, beginning in Q3 of 2008.
• AOL opened its AIM Voice API to developers.
• Adobe will license its Flash software free to mobile devices as it seeks to bring a web-like experience to mobile users.