Thursday, February 05, 2004

More on Trademarks. Dana Blankenhorn continues the discussion on Corante w/r/t the trademark issue and paid search. This one is not going away, though I think this will come down to shades of gray, not black and white legal rulings. If a legal precedent is set that is too restrictive, many will cry foul and claim the suffocation of an entire industry (ie, the $6 billion paid search market). If there is no precedent, trademark law is weakened and those who depend on their trademarks will suffer. It will take time for the standards to emerge from case law. Dana points to an email from BizWeek's Alex Salkever, in which Alex notes that Google has already given in to Dell and eBay and disallowed others from advertising using... [John Battelle's Searchblog] 6:15:43 PM    comment []

E-Mail: Outlook Rules [Line56: B2B News] 6:14:54 PM    comment []

Former Softies Developing Longhorn Social-Networking Software. Four former Microsoft execs have banded together to create "The Graw Group," a company developing social-networking software for .Net and Longhorn. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] 6:14:31 PM    comment []

Stress Monkey Continued. By the way... What we're showing at DEMO is going to knock your socks off. -Russ By russ@russellbeattie.com. [Russell Beattie] 6:14:18 PM    comment []