SEO Bonus Night: Keyword Research Just Got a Little Bit Easier (and Cheaper)
by Karri Flatla Have you ever been walking down the street just sort of minding your own business, staring at the cracks in the sidewalk, when you suddenly spot a fiver just laying there on the pavement? You look around to see if anyone else is watching. If anyone else has noticed the unclaimed? pri...
Google Adds Approximate Search Counts to Keyword Tool
This must have been a tough one for the search giant to figure out. People read numbers better than they do colors. Google has started to add Approximate word counts on their Adwords keyword tool, along side of their vague colored bar graphs, which used to be the only data they gave. The reason behi...
Microsoft Enjoys Mild Patch Tuesday
Windows users and system administrators should breathe a little sigh of relief as Microsoft's light package of patches for July, but a recently discovered Critical problem with Snapshot Viewer still lacks a solution. read more ...
Google’s Lively.com is to Second Life, as Orkut is to MySpace
A little under two years ago, I sat down with Google’s Niniane Wang and had a very interesting "off the record" conversation. Despite the secrecy, she wouldn’t tell me much about the secret social media project she was working on. Fast forward to today, and she’s announcing Google’s new Live...
Blog Comment Ownership Question Resurrected
This is a topic destined for a courtroom one day, bitter enemies formed along the way: Can a blog publisher collect blog comments and publish them in a book? We addressed this topic weeks ago, with no definitive answer. The question arises again today as a result of simultaneous, otherwise minor, oc...
Rumors Circulating That Twitter Has Bought Summize And Stable
Just when you thought Twitter was a dead duck, a flurry of news suggests there?s life in the old bird yet!read more ...
Google Affiliate Network's New Interface Launched
As discussed last week, the Google Affiliate Network is starting to surface. In an email sent to selected individuals, Google announces the debut of the affiliate network: Google Affiliate Network, formerly DoubleClick Performics, is pleased to unveil a refreshed ConnectCommerce... ...
Gmail Now Lets You View User Access to Your Email Account
For those who login to their Gmail account from multiple terminals, the new Gmail feature addressing the issue on user privacy has just been rolled out. Basically this feature tells you whether your Gmail is currently in use. If you check out this new feature, you can see how many people are using...
CafePress Acquires Imagekind
Anyone who's been dying to own a really fancy t-shirt or coffee mug may be in luck; reports indicate that CafePress has acquired Imagekind, a sort of artists' community and marketplace.read more ...
Privacy Concerns Raised (Again) About Google StreetView As It Formally Launches In Europe
Privacy issues are back with a vengeance. Everywhere you look now NGOs, legal experts, and government officials are raising questions about this or that online or ad initiative and privacy. The most recent privacy debacle was the Viacom-YouTube ruling, which is being circumvented by cooperation betw...