links for 2007-10-24

“The rumor was running in the market, it’s now official: The Reference has a new Managing Director in the person of Anja Cappelle who succeeds to Alexander van de Rostyne in the same function.”

“I can’t decide if this doesn’t matter at all, or if it matters a lot. A Wall Street Journal reporter named Julia Angwin has apparently been working on a tell all book about MySpace for some time, and she’s dug up a lot of sensationalist dirt on the

“Forrester Charlene Li is one of my favorite readings. This time she released a presentation on how the brands should market on Facebook. Good reading.”

“Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday that the company would not pursue a merger with Yahoo!, an acquisition of Facebook, or anything else that costs billions upon billions of dollars.”

“Microsoft’s Live ID team is launching the ability for users to sign up for a Live ID using their mobile device. While this might not seem like a big deal for those of us with 24×7 Internet access through our PCs, the idea behind the project is to incr

“Radiohead sold an incredible 1,2 million ‘copies’ of their new ‘cd’ ‘In Rainbows’ in only one week. That’s more then the first week sales of their 3 previous releases together. “