Jon Fine: "There’s now a case to be made for Google (and, for that matter, Google’s competitors) to buy up content players. Or, rather, there will, be, once their monumental growth slows down and the competition for traffic becomes more costly than it

Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it reached an agreement to be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on Digg.com

"[E]lectronic data is proving far more ephemeral than paper: we now produce and access far more information, but it is harder to keep intact. It is not just historians who are worried. "

The Open Source Consortium says says the BBC is locking users into a Microsoft platform with its iPlayer and will raise an anti-trust complaint with Ofcom next week, and could go as far as the European Competition Commission.

"The BBC is using Microsoft’s Photosynth 3D imaging software to provide views of prominent British buildings in conjunction with a new TV show, How We Built Britain."

The BBC is looking for contributions for its How We Built Britain Photosynth project by encouraging people to upload their images to Flickr.