Marketing Pilgrim

There’s a good reason why you get an almost daily dose of Pilgrim’s Picks and Linky Goodness. There are some stories that we think you’d like to know about, but there’s really not much commentary for us to add. At Marketing Pilgrim, we want to discuss the marketing news that we feel is not only important but that we have an opinion on.

Our goal is to get you thinking, get you planning, get you discussing–heck even get you disagreeing. When a story doesn’t give us an opportunity to do any of these, we’d rather save you from "fluffy" posts that insult your intelligence.

OK, with that said, here’s the news that you need to know about, but we just couldn’t think of anything smart to say.

• After turning down a rumored $200M, Automattic looks set to take $50M so Matt Mullenweg and others can buy a Ferrari.
• Yahoo is making changes to its desktop widgets directory.
• Who is the world’s largest patent troll? Here’s a hint: The University of California has earned $500M from its patents, and that doesn’t included the millions it makes from suing others!
• Flickr just passed two billion photo uploads, so not surprising that Microsoft is building its own Flickr rival.
• Vinny Langham’s SynthaSite is now in public beta. The site lets you quickly build web sites without any HTML knowledge. Kind of like Dreamweaver for the web–without any cost!
• Human powered search engine, ChaCha, has raised $8 million in funding.
• Virtual Hosting has opened up the linkbait handbook and compiled a great list of eye-tracking findings.

So, what do you think? Any of the above you wish we’d taken the time to do a more in-depth analysis on?

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