Live, from New York Panera Bread in Raleigh, it’s Pilgrim’s Picks!

• Ask.com helps IAC enjoy a good financial quarter.
• Dashboard ad management company Clickable has raised $14.5 million in Series B funding.
• I wonder where MyYearbook got the inspiration for its name? Anyway, the social network for teens just raised $13 million in funding.
• Google Checkout and PayPal have a new competitor: Amazon.com.
• MySpace has named five new executives?

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I feel sorry for any tech company trying to announce any news today–just about all focus is on Cuil. Still, these brave souls decided to take the plunge:

• Live video streaming web site Mogulus has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from media conglomerate Gannett. Pretty lame to announce funding, but not the amount–don’t you think?
• Yahoo’s “News Direct Display” algorithm–akin to Google’s Universal search–is ramping up and showing news results in the main search results.
• It looks like Google won’t be buying Digg after all.
• Women bloggers–aka those “without the Y chromosome”–are trying to break through a supposed glass ceiling. I don’t know, judging from the article, it appears to be broken already–or at least has lots of cracks.

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Darn it! I had a really good opening for today’s Picks, but I think I left it sitting at the coffee shop.

I’ll be right back…er…enjoy today’s Picks while I’m gone.

• Click fraud rates were down slightly in Q2. Maybe it’s summer break for the fraudsters.
• Mobile advertising network AdMob is launching a whole new set of customized ads for iPhone apps.
• While Google procrastinates with Android, developers are starting to take a look at the iPhone.
• Baidu’s rocking the search market in China. On the back of a 63% market share, profits are up 87%!

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Another day, another dollar edition of Pilgrim’s Picks.

• Could changes at The Patent and Trademark Office nullify Google’s patents?
• The New York Times have announced a content syndication deal with LinkedIn.
• Apparently Propeller, AOL’s social news site, doesn’t want to copy Digg’s system anymore. Instead, they’ve announced a new algorithm that will calculate the most popular items.
• Wordpress comes to the iPhone? w00t!

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What is it they say about the squeaky wheel? Well, it’s been over 13 hours now and my Google Calendar is still blank. I have no idea what my appointments or deadlines are for the day. Thanks Google!

For those of you with their lives fully diarized, I present today’s Picks.

• Wikipedia is testing a new system that would require approval before any new edits are published.
• Shoemoney’s posted a video sneak-peak of his new suite of tools.
• As we suggest in Radically Transparent, building your own social network platform is normally not the best solution–use existing platforms–as companies are starting to discover for themselves.
• Reputation monitoring again, this time a heads-up from SEW that Google has enabled reviews on the go.

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