Today we're mostly Googly in our linkiness. Let's get our obligatory nonGoogle story out of the way first: Facebook wants to offer music, but they don't want to tangle with labels , reports paidContent.org. MySpace recently launched its music service , which it owns jointly with participating music labels. Facebook, on teh other hand, has no desire to cede ownership in exchange for access.

From proposal to almost-marriage to messy breakup, their love affair dominated tech news for the first half of the year. Now that the Yahoo/Google deal has supplanted the proposed Yahoo/Microsoft merger in the public attention, it looks like Steve Ballmer's getting a little lonely again. In a keynote earlier this week, the Microsoft CEO said: We offered $33 bucks )for Yahoo( and it's $11 today. It's clear Yahoo didn't want to sell.

Google's had a tough time over the last couple years, with Wall Street Analysts expecting almost exponential growth. When they first missed estimates, growing only 58% in Q2 2007 )the losers( , some analysts thought it was the beginning of the end. While they've bounced back from time to time )such as Q1 2008 (, Google is probably pretty happy to finally be sticking it to the analysts where it hurts the mostthe bottom lineas they post an estimate-beating Q3 ,

The first reviews of T-Mobile's new G1 "Gphone" are inand it's at least as good as the iPhone, if the initial reviewers are to be believed. And considering who some of these reviewers are, it's probably true. What's the consensus? While it's not a bad little device, T-Mobile's 3G coverage sucks )20, soon to be 30 cities(, the phone should have a better media player and a standard headphone jack, the keyboard is a nice feature but not the easiest to use,

It's the ides of October, and today you get to give linky goodness its special name. It seems to me these links all have to do with a central theme, but I'm just not coming up with a cute name for it. See if you can do any better. After starting its own blog advertising network, Technorati Media , in June, now Technorati has acquired the network AdEngage . I guess what they're trying to say is, "Fo' rillz, yo.

Facebook, Facebook. A year ago, it seemed we could hardly go a day without some newsworthy tidbit from the sweetheart of the social networking scene. These days, positive headlinesor any at all, since "ink is ink"are much fewer and further between. But today, Facebook has two reasons to make the news: they've endorsed the new KIDS Act from the US federal government and they're finally disbursing the fbFund for startups.

What a momentous daythree years ago today, I joined Facebook. Sounds like a good excuse to party to me! Speaking of joining thingswonderful news! Lisa Barone has joined We Build Pages . WBP is based in Troy, NY. I love Troy. Never been there. But I killed a man there once. Only it was a woman. And it was nine years before I was born. And oh yeah, it was in a work of fiction.

Yahoo's unveiling a new display and radio ad campaign today. The campaign, which is targeted to fight Google, touts Yahoo's safe results and easy-to-use interface. One banner ad adjures us: "Don't get lost in all the links": two caps from an animated banner ad A radio ad advertises the SafeSearch feature, which uses McAfee to indicate which sites in a SERP might contain potentially dangerous downloads: The SafeSearch feature is nice, but again, if you have that info,

Linkety linky goodnessit's like "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" only for marketing news links! Perhaps all is not well with Hulu, the NBC- and Fox-owned video site. Apparently Saturday Night Live, an NBC show, is planning a standalone site . HBO is, too. Will Google AdWords be using Twitter? InsideAdWords is now a Twitter user However, Twitter is giving up on its current IM capability However, they're adding IM capabilities to their "Things to Build" list.

As Andy mentioned this morning, the G1 Gphone sold out, but for a lot more units than we initially thought . Instead of half a million this quarter, apparently, they sold 1.5M in the presell alone. Previous reports said that the order from the manufacturer, HTC, was for 1.5 to 2 million phones. The G1s are slated to arrive next Wednesday. Of course, the G1 isn't the only way Google is taking over your phones. They're also gearing up ads specifically for the iPhone ,

Hey, it's 10/10. Awesome. I know you're wondering where I come up with all this cleverness, aren't you. Another content deal for the video giant as YouTube starts running full length CBS shows . Hey, as long as we can get them somewhere, right? Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has had a lot to say this week. CNET reports that Facebook's working on opening up , though it'll take time, and it's is all about growth . Then I have good news and bad news.

I guess it's just been one of those weeks: Google is innovating all over this week. The latest changes that have been spotted come in Google's bread and butter: the SERPs. Both Barry Schwartz and Michael Gray posted about a new development in the SERPs: content attributes listed between the title and the snippet of results. The information provided there included the number of posts from the blog,

Google is launching plenty of new features this week, and now they have even more. As spotted by CNET , Google Maps are now sporting text ads below the map results. Check out this result for [copies near san francisco, ca]: Like the snippets above emails in Gmail, these are one-line link and description ads appear on a green background with additional ads available via < and > buttons )because who doesn't want to look at more ads?(.

What's so deluxe about today's linky goodness? It's not the quantity, it's the quality. Rumors have flown for more than a year, and now it's really true: Yahoo Web Analytics Officially Launches Want to get into in-game advertising? Google AdSense is doing video game advertising now . And because I know you really want to get in there, Wikia Search has released a third party search enhancement platform . I'm guessing that's like Search Monkey.

Yet another monetization tactic from YouTube: click-to-buy . Through partnerships with companies like EMI and Electronic Arts, YouTube is adding links to iTunes and Amazon )DRM free( to download music and video games, with more options to come. The links appear below videos from participating partners )such as this perennial classic from OK Go(: And Google says there's lots more to come: This is just the beginning of building a broad,

We bring you some linky goodness We bring you some linky goodness We bring you some linky goodness So you'll have the news! All hope is not lost for Yahoo! As long rumored , they're in merger talks with AOL . Oh, wait. That probably does mean all is lost. Oh that's what it's forFacebook's Sheryl Sandberg points out that the social utility network is a big opportunity for branding online . And more Facebook newsas promised ,

I'm pretty sure this is one idea that started as an April Fool's joke, but new in Gmail Labs is a filter to prevent you from sending out drunken, late-night or otherwise ill-advised emails. When you send an email during your specified time, it prompts you with various mathematical equations which you have to solve before it will send out your email. If you're too out of it to fire up the calculator, your email will have to wait till another day. Oh,

Linky linky goodness, readers, dear Linky links will come to you all year If I had one wish, then it would be A post full of good links to you from me. Oh, look, my wish came true! Do text ads still work online? Oh yeah. In fact, simple text ads are still the most clicked ad type online . Far less popular? Banner and video ads. More commercials are coming to online television . I love Ad Age's opening here: Want more ads with your free web video?

Hot on Ask's heels , the semantic search engine Hakia launches a redesign today, too. Aside from the new SERP layout, Hakia is testing the use of peer-reviewed "credible sites" and a personal start page. As a tab on the redesigned SERP, Hakia offers an option to refine your results to sites that have been peer-reviewed to meet strict noncommerciality and credibility standards. The results from credible sites , however,

I have a little song for you today. It's to the tune of "Oh Shenandoah." O-pen Social, you long to give us A-a-apps, all open source O-pen Social, you long to serve us A-a-away you're bound to go 'Cause Facebook's stealing your lunch Okay, the last line might not fit so well in the song, but it looks to be happening in the real world.