links for 2007-05-22

• GigaOM » Virtual World Population: 50 million by 2011
  Gartner: “80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 companies) will have a ‘second life’, but not necessarily in Second Life” by 2011". Also, Linden is like early AOL; many popular metaverses are yet to come.
  (tags: stats secondlife)
• Google, Salesforce.com Weigh Alliance to Battle Microsoft - WSJ.com
  Is that why CRM is up by almost $4? They announced Salesforce SOA and AppExchange Venture Network this morning also.
  (tags: Salesforce google)
• Illuminata Perspectives » Blog Archive » Red Hat’s Subscriptions for Virtualization
  "Red Hat’s issues described here just highlight the difficulties of applying pricing that’s fundamentally rooted in the physical world to the realm of virtualization."
  (tags: RedHat)
• Google AdSense disabling arbitrage publisher accounts as of June 1st - JenSense.com
  Google is shutting down "made for Adsense" publisher accounts; GoDaddy and other domain parking providers may be main beneficiary as domain owners won't be able to monetize traffic as individuals.
  (tags: advertising Google)
• A VC: Delicious For Money
  Been meaning to try out Wesabe. Finally signed up thanks to the title of Fred's post; great way to describe the service.
  (tags: signedup)
• Official Google Blog: Google Apps Partner Edition
  Google was webmail vendor to ISPs?
  (tags: google)
• Aftermarket Domains Valuation Factors - Dan Warner for DNJournal.com
  (tags: domains)