Does it seem lately as if babies are slithering forth into the world at breakneck speed? Sure seems so to this here Minute, who knows of at least three recent births and two sets of twins on the way. There is, of course, a great market opportunity in pregnant women and new parents--and the folks at Kaboose Inc. are now poised to capitalize on it.

More people find the Internet a useful source of health and medical information now than in the past, but the Web appears to have gained more ground in other areas of people's lives, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

The results of a new poll conducted by the BBC, Reuters, and The Media Center on trust in the media are out today. Notably, the poll finds that more people trust the media than their governments, especially in developing countries, according to the 10-country opinion poll.

The Web has long offered consumers a mix of free, ad-supported content with subscription content. But as the online ad market continues to grow, it seems that more and more high quality content is becoming available free of charge.

Today Yahoo launches its technology channel, an ambitious undertaking that incorporates and takes advantage of Yahoo's prodigious resources in search and answer technology, personalization and community, shopping, and social networking features.

There could be a lot of green in online gaming, in case you didn't realize it. Branded entertainment, product placements, and sponsorships within online multiplayer video games and console games are getting hotter.

Until this week, the question of "net neutrality" had loomed large for Internet policy wonks, but hadn't yet captured the public's imagination.

Google and Yahoo both reported solid first quarter results last week, indicating that any concerns over a slowdown in the search advertising market may have been premature. Still, both companies will need to push the outer bounds of the category to uncover new places to take search--more than likely, off the desktop.

Internet service providers have always had tremendous power to control the flow of information but, for the most part, they haven't wielded the power to impede communication--or, at least, wanted communication. But that situation appears to be changing, thanks to aggressive, but faulty, spam filters.

Mochila, an on-demand, online-based media marketplace, is coming out of stealth mode this week. The new service is using Ad:Tech in San Francisco on April 26 to focus on its ad-supported model and announce two new publishers to its network.