WebProNews has an article titled Business Blogs and Customer Connectivity, which looks at the characteristics of sucessful business blogs. It says that many of the best "b-blogs" (business blogs) provide their readers with a look at the:

1. Company represented.
2. Individual heading that company.
3. News that affects the company and its customers.
4. Links that may be beneficial to the customers.
5. Personality behind the logo.

Following up from yesterday's article on .mobi domains, here's a roundup of .mobi articles from various news sources:

• Buy your piece of the .mobi internet today -- The Register
• 'Dot-Mobi' Domain Name Opens To Public for Wireless Web Sites (Subscription required) -- The Wall Street Journal
• Registration for .mobi now open to the public -- Mobile Magazine
• Mobile Domains Debut for Public -- Red Herring
• Mobi Domain Landrush Begins -- Web Host Industry Review
• What's so hot about the .mobi top-level domain -- Tech Digest
• The .mobi land rush: a mobile web revolution? -- Bigmouthmedia News
• Dotmobi Top-Level Domain Now Ready For The Masses -- Gizmodo

Over at John Battelle's Searchblog, there's an interview with Google's Matt Cutts (whose SEO tips we profiled in this article). In the interview, Cutts -- "the human voice between Google and webmasters/SEOs" -- talks about his role at Google, humans and algorithms at Google and what is considered webspam.

Don Hinchcliffe says the Seven Things Every Software Project Needs to Know About Ajax are:

1. The Browser Was Never Meant For Ajax.
2. You Won't Need As Many Web Services As You Think.
3. Ajax Is More Involved Than Traditional Web Design and Development.
4. Ajax Tooling and Components Are Still Emerging and There Is No Clear Leader Today.
5. Good Ajax Programmers are Hard to Find.
6. One Must Actively Address Ajax's Constraints of the Browser Model.
7. Ajax Is Only One Element of a Successful RIA Strategy.

There's a boatload of articles on IBM's developerWorks that might be of interest to you -- I've selected the ones that caught my attention and listed them after the jump.