Video site Revision3 suffered a crippling denial of service attack over the Memorial Day weekend, an attack MediaDefender not only admitted to Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback.

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Shades of Office Space! Someone’s used the Internet to stick it to a couple of financial companies, a few cents at a time.

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Bookselling chain decides competing with Amazon.com on book sales will be a better prospect than the now-ended partnership with the online retailing giant.

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Despite their significant holdings of networking capability, Google won’t try to pump up the Clearwire mobile WiMax project beyond search and advertising.

Google as super-cheap, efficient, dynamic wireless Internet service network provider? Fuggedaboutit wise guy.

Unstrung said Clearwire won’t be able to touch Google’s “dark fiber,” networking capacity the company has yet to light up and use:

“At this time Google’s involvement in Clearwire is limited to the terms of its investment and does not include providing network infrastructure,” says company spokesman Andrew Pederson in an email.

Google will act as the default search engine for devices on the Clearwire network and develop mobile applications around the service as well as investing $500 million in the venture.

Of course, if Google gets its way with the white space hardware it wants the FCC to approve for wireless 700MHz access in the unused parts of that spectrum, they will have another outlet besides Clearwire to reach people toting Android-powered phones in the future.

Norwegian browser maker Opera Software said in its ‘State of the Mobile Web’ report that nearly 40 percent of global mobile web traffic hits the likes of MySpace and Facebook. It’s even higher in the United States.

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Disputes between buyers and sellers over e-commerce transactions need not end up as a court battle, if the parties opt to give the Fair Reputations System a try.

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If Internet users held a particular position about a candidate, Stanford University’s Management Science & Engineering department probably caught their opinions in a bubble.

Through the use of real-time data firm Wise Window’s software as a service for qualitative data, Stanford constructed a tracking tool for the 2008 Presidential election.

As the Democratic primary continues to grind across the country (we get our shot at voting next Tuesday), more news items emerge about its two candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as the Republican candidate,John McCain.

Stanford built its tracker to express the opinions surrounding candidates in a visually-friendly way. One may visit the Bubble Tracker and see how positive or negative recent commentary appeared about the candidate.

Green bubbles mean good comments, while purple ones reflect bad ones. Visitors to the Stanford site make click on one of the bubbles to see a link to the story driving that opinion.

Viewing past opinions and the bubbles they made may be done through the use of a slider control below the bubble window. Each change with the slider alters the bubbles for each candidate.

And when you pass the mouse pointer over the candidate’s window, the bubbles begin to circulate. So cool! Links we observed hit news stories appearing on Topix and Diggin our unscientific look at Stanford’s bubbles.

LeeAnn Prescott at Efficient Frontier said the best performance in terms of traffic quality at the three biggest search engines belongs to Microsoft and its MSN/Live search properties.

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The potential deals to place Google’s ads on Yahoo’s search results beyond a previous test already garnered opposition from a motley crew of groups.

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Want to auction something in Australia on eBay? PayPal will be your payment processor next month. How long will it be until they try to implement that in the US?

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