links for 2007-11-21

“Yesterday we held the Zune up to my year-old iPod nano which I was so excited about last October, and the difference is remarkable. The iPod with its arcane menu structure and tiny little screen seemed just as outdated as iTunes does compared to the Zun

“The LibraryHouse blog has a nice summary of recent acquisitions (July 2006 through June 2007) by Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!, roughly color coded by category: “

“Facebook has caved into popular demand and will make the “is” in status updates optional, effective tonight, according to allfacebook.com.”

“Buzzlogic, the San Francisco company that tries to help marketers and others gauge which blogs are the most influential for specific topics, has raised an extra $2.5 million in financing to help it promote its new advertising product.”