Wednesday Internet Digest

Ecommerce:
* keyword prices October +1% mom and -6% yoy to average $1.45 (Fathom)
* Speurders.nl (Telegraaf) starts drop-off store Speurders Store (rev sharing: 64/36 owner/Speurders)

Search:
* click fraud: Optimal iQ intros ClickFraudIndex.com (stats and info)

User-generated content, mash-ups (blogs, podcasts, vlogs):
* IBM intro podcasts

RSS, tags, sharing:
Microsoft buys FolderShare (share docs, pictures) from ByteTaxi

Digitization:
* Microsoft works with British Library (13m books): 100k books = 25m pages in 2006
* Amazon plans Amazon Pages (online access to (part) of book) and Amazon Upgrade (online access extra for physical book buyers)
* Random House (Bertelsmann) plans placing books online (for-pay)