The 404 page can be more than a bit of blank space vomited back at the browser. It’s an opportunity to brand, and to link people to existing content on a website.

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Comcast has agreed to stop the traffic shaping of BitTorrent connections and work with the company to find common ground on rich media distribution and network capacity management.

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Social media news is all the rage today, as Yahoo signed on with Google and MySpace for the OpenSocial initiative, while Microsoft and partners Facebook and Bebo tout contact data portability.

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We like what Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have done so far with exploring digital music distribution; R.E.M. takes the conversation to the top of the music mountain with their planned online debut of their new album.

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Developers working with the Open AIM platform will have the option to pull in some revenue through a new program expected to debut next month.

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HarperCollins took online publishing to a new limit with its expansion of their Browse Inside program to allow people to read full books online.

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Once upon a time, few outside of the scientific community knew of the World Wide Web, not to mention email or newsgroups. Internet usage continues to rise dramatically since the advent of the Web.

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Andrew Allemann suggested the salad days of working with Yahoo for parked domain ads will be replaced by the grimmer prospect of negotiating with Microsoft.

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Once the markets close, Yahoo will report on its Q4 and full year earnings. Jerry Yang’s chat will probably include news of whatever layoffs may be scheduled.

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At first I thought the Facebook ads I saw on my profile were some kind of play on the credits for ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’, but then I figured out what was happening.

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