Adam Bosworth on Salesforce.com. It is about a 15 minute audio, and well worth a listen. Adam is one of the people who really get the web. The thesis of that speech is that by:

• reacting quickly; and
• providing a framework and marketplace for others to build on

a company is far more likely to succeed than trying to guess what people need and slowly building it all in house based on some master plan.

It is a bit unfortunate that people give Google crap whenever he expresses his opinions and others do not agree, as that has kept him from posting much on his blog.

link from TW

Danny says Google is changing their European Agency Commission Structure:

• Commission will be tied to business brought in or grown

• Commission will be tiered to a maximum of 12 percent
• The new program opens across Europe from January 2006 to any qualified third party agency (at least five clients, two Google certified professionals on staff).
• Yes, search marketing firms are eligible.

Danny also posted more about the current payout levels in the subscribers article linked to from his blog post.

Tim O'Reilly likes Google Print, but realizes times are changing:

I do think that a lot of the resistance from publishers has to do with the fear of ultimately being disintermediated by Google. And it's a legitimate fear. The publishers who don't embrace the net will be swept away by it, while those who do will surf the wave to new excitement. Print-bound intermediaries will go away, but they will be replaced by new delivery-mechanism-agnostic intermediaries and business models. The role of the intermediary will remain because it's driven by the law of large numbers.

Tim also pointed at this amazing article: Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution.

Seth Godin reminds us that readers are already paying if they are paying attention, and as a bonus, posts on how / why ideas spread.

Some readers may not have a WSJ subscription and be able to read the recent TP profile in the Wall Street Journal, lucky for them the whole article is also available in the Startup Journal.

Google removed their you are searching 8 billion + pages and reframes the size debate, encouraging people to use Google more and search more specifically. :)

Framing is huge in marketing. If you control the language then you win the battle.

Danny wrote a great article about the history of the search database size wars, going back to the days of AltaVista & Excite page counting.

Also interesting to note that Danny loves the Lego Star Wars video game, and searched for the same piece I did. Finding the missing Star Wars lego pieces via search is no doubt a hard task, especially using UK spellings.

Danny recently turned 40. Happy Bday Danny.

Astute SEW fans may find the hidden Annie Williams paintings present suggestion in his latest article. :)