The Morning Reboot:
- Farecast, the airfare prediction site, has opened a new service that lets you lock in low fares. For 10 dollars you can “protect” the lowest fare from your search for the next week. If the fare rises, you pay only your protected, low fare.
- Google wants to do for books what the iPod did for music. The secret labs over at Google are cooking up a system that would let readers download entire books to their computers in a format that they could read on screen or on a mobile device. Call me skeptical, but I don't think eBooks are gonna catch on any time soon.
- IBM will be introducing a set of social networking services that functions like “a MySpace for office workers” later today. The software, dubbed Lotus Connections, offers “the business equivalent of Web meeting places like MySpace” as well as tools “similar” to del.icio.us and Technorati together in one package. Hmm. So they've released a bunch of stuff that already exists.
- From Reuters: “Merlin, the new agency representing the world's independent music sector, has agreed to a deal with digital music company Snocap which will allow its labels' music to be sold from Web sites such as MySpace.”
- TSIA: The web 2.0 name generator.
