Chris Gilmer , Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

CBS Interactive to partner with Digg. Could this be a ‘trial period’ before a buyout? After all, they were still rumored to be for sale.

Free news? What! Not for the Wall Street Journal!

Its just a rumor for now, but iTunes files could be included with DVD’s starting late this month.

Network Solutions is stealing your domain names. Seems that if you search for a domain to buy using their services, they register it if you don’t buy it. FrontRunning? Yes! You still have the option to buy it through NS, but its marked as unavailable at any other domain seller. Naughty. May we suggest GoDaddy instead.

Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon is writing a book about the story of blogs. Should be a good read. No word on when its scheduled to come out.

Amazon is moving everyone into one building in Seattle. Admin employees who are scattered about Seattle will soon get a proper office to call their own. And you will never guess who owns the land… Paul Allen. (He owns 60 acres in Seattle’s South Lake Union)

OpenID is in talks with Google, IBM and Verisign to join the service that hooks up one identity across a variety of services, including Propeller, Springnote, Feedhub, 37Signals, Plaxo, Wetpaint, Movable Type and Zoomr. Digg, AOL, Microsoft and Wikipedia have all announced their interest in supporting the initiative.

How much data does Google crunch? 20 petabytes. See Niall Kennedy for the calculations.

Yahoo! has released a new version of their browser based mp3 player. Developers are invited to play. A sample fo this is the EasyListener. Create a player and point it to a URL. The player will grab all audio and create a playlist.