Yesterday's Minute on Aegis Group's acquisition of search services provider iProspect prompted a swift response from our friends at aQuantive, the holding company for Avenue A/Razorfish, iFrontier, Atlas DMT, and DRIVE pm.

Aegis Group, the UK-based holding company that owns Carat, today said it's acquiring iProspect, a provider of search marketing services; the deal is estimated at $50 million.

Slate, the online magazine known for its penetrating cultural critique and commentary, has a new home.

Are we in for a shower of music services delivered by wireless phone in 2005? It sounds like we are.

The week wouldn't be complete without mentioning Time Warner's agreement to settle federal investigations into allegations of improper accounting in the company's America Online unit.

Bay Area Interactive Group, otherwise known as BIG, is hosting an unusual event tonight at the City Club in San Francisco.

Let's get one thing straight: Music downloads from online music stores or the Web to the PC, and then to portable digital players like the iPod, are a great thing.

Advertisers will spend $4 billion in 2004 by year-end on search marketing programs, and are expected to spend 39 percent more on such programs in 2005, according to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO).

Our friend David Smith, CEO of Mediasmith in San Francisco, today alerts us to the winners of the ASPY awards.

It comes as no surprise that Yahoo! is entering the desktop search arena - desktop search is, after all, along with local search services, one of the next big growth opportunities for the search market.