Macrovision has bought eMeta, the access and entitlements company, for $35m according to PaidContent.org. According to the post the company is interested in incorporating the technology into its solution for games, video, music and enterprise software. The company was born out of an Elsevier project to develop a&e for the science sites and todate appeared to view its market as other publishers. Is this ambition now dead, I wonder?

Kent Newsome has some tips for bloggers based on an earlier post by Scoble.

Interesting WSJ piece about the likely valuation for Daily Candy – $100m – an email newsletter business being auctioned by former AOL exec Robert Pittman. There’s still money in email…

Flickr has passed 100 million photos according to Swedish blogger Media Culpa.

Reuters has just launched a financial glossary which has been set up as a wiki. There is no reason on earth what b2b publishers shouldn’t do this in practically every sector – and the fact that, as far as I can see, very few (if any) have done so says a lot about the traction two-way publishing is getting in these circles…

David Sifry has some interesting stats and thoughts on the state of the blogsphere including what he is calling “the magic middle” – specialised, vertical blogs which exert great influence in their sectors. This sound quite a bit like the role that b2b media plays/used to play…

Tad Smith interviewed.

The Guardian is gearing up for a major push into online interactivity, according to PaidContent.org.

gets funding.

Paid Content’s take on Google’s online auction of space in 28 US magazines is here.