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Radiohead's digital album is now available. Nine Inch Nails is following them in ditching the labels. Oasis and Jamiroquai may be taking a page out of their book as well. Whatever the sales, Radiohead's new approach has gotten them a lot of Internet mindshare.

For things that didn't exist fifteen years ago, search engines sure get a lot of use. We did 61 billion online searches in August. If they'd cost a buck a pop, that'd be enough to bankrupt even this guy.

eBay is recovering from jumping on the last next big thing by being the latest company to get into social networking. To build friendships on the solid foundation of a shared passion for bidding on weary old GameCubes click here.

Also saying "Me Too!" in the social networking world this week is MySpace. TechCrunch reports they'll be releasing an open API, following the masses who are following Facebook in making this move. We'll see if third party application developers will embrace a company that was recently trying to strangle them.

In the Dead Pool: The Halo movie. Phew.

Also in the Dead Pool: Your super-pricey Mac laptop - if you lose your power adaptor.

And potentially in the Dead Pool: Sprint's $5 billion WiMax project (PLEASE, Sprint - stay the course!!)

Gooku Gooku, Jaigle, Jaigle. Mashupspeak for Google Buys Jaiku. Bloggers console their jilted darling Twitter.

And what's better than a bunch of text ads in the margins of your site? A bunch of YouTube videos in the margins of your site!