Things us ecommerce types should be keeping an eye on?

[george]

The significance and progress of Wikipedia and Myspace.

Seem to be growing by the nanosecond.

Can either be utilised to our website's benefit I wonder?

[jont]

Blogs are the easiest route into this followed by RSS feeds followed by tagging (somewhere like Technorati can create massive inbound links if picked up)

Wikipedia is open to editing so any obvious spamming will be hated with a vengeance and removed - peristence in spamming (even trying to gently promote commercial sites can be seen as spamming to the open community) has seen very severe backlashes (DDOS attacks for example)

[george]

Google slips MySpace under their wing....



...and eBay Express is launched...



....

[jont]

keeping up the footie context ...

Google nets YouTube

Facebook in shock transfer to Yahoo