Links 06/14/06

MarketSound - a service that replicates the sound of a trading floor for people trading in today's electronic exchanges, or for people who have undergone multiple voice cord operations from screaming at other people on the floor and miss the action. Sadly I can't find a sample. (via the WSJ)

"The media business has been reduced to pure transaction." Domaining" the name for creating fake websites filled with search ads. A really good article about how Google's AdSense is creating an environment where companies like NameMedia which owns 650,000 domain names will undermine the Internet.

The NYT discovers the Googleplex on the banks of the Columbia River. I find myself laughing at David Pogue's blog post about it's location in  The Dalles.

Jason Kottke links to a post doubting gravity, on a site called Christianforums,  that may or may not be a parody but one thing that is pretty funny, regardless, are the icons that the members are using.

While looking for the latest version of MultiBlog on David Rayne's site I noticed that he has joined the IndieKarma network. It looks interesting as a micro-payment idea. You deposit money into an account (they give you a dollar to start), then they give a penny (or more) for every page you read to the site owner. 

So teens spend 3 hours on-line and 3 hours watching TV each day. What do they do when they are on line? Read the article.

Interesting article about ASME division of advertising and editorial extending from print to on-line. However it seems that this wall softens in more social network activities, according to these media heavies. It certainly weakened for the 8-to-15 year old whyvillians who according to the NYT are being given the chance to buy a virtual Toyota Scion to drive around their fake world.

Flock launches new site and browser - business week Tech beat review of it. (via techmeme)