Marketing Pilgrim

Maybe they’ll be some bigger news later today, but right now it’s slim-pickings. Here’s the wheat we separated from the chaff this morning.

• Rob Hof has details of ProQuo, a new service that lets you filter the junk mail coming through your door. That’s good news for the environment!
• A new Chancellor tries to block a blog critical of him. It backfires, and now everyone knows what a muppet he is.
• Mothers of the world UK, unite! Mothercare has launched their own social network called Gurgle.com. The follow-up will be called burp.com, then yuck-she-threw-up-on-me.com.
• The Unofficial Google Analytics Blog has discovered the price for the new Urchin 6 will be just under $3k.
• Alibaba.com, China’s largest ecommerce company just had an IPO larger than Google’s!