Google's Q4 Profits Nearly Triple

And they just keep getting hotter and hotter.... Google Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit nearly tripled amid another burst of breathtaking growth that enabled the online search leader to sprint past analyst expectations — ... [Read More]

Is Corporate Blogging Worth the Effort?

The benefit of blogging has been consistently questioned by people I encounter everyday. Within my social circle, new blogs emerge that are more personal in nature, and often resemble online diaries. The question often ... [Read More]

Yahoo Goes Viral with a Link Badge Widget

So they predict that 2007 is the year of the Widget. MyBlogLog has been a big hit so far. Now Yahoo, after acquiring the primary widget preferred by thousands of bloggers, has gone the next step to create a nifty little ... [Read More]

Google Top Ten: 4 out of 10 results for the same thing

I was doing some research earlier and did a search on Google for translation services and was quite dissapointed to see Babel Fish as not 1, not 2 but 4 of the top 10 results returned. Yes - Babel Fish is an extremely ... [Read More]

Upgrade Complete! Do you notice anything?

We upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 last week (and moved this site to a new server) and are now ironing out the kinks that remain with the transition. Have you encountered anything that we should know about? If so, please let us ... [Read More]

Money for Your Videos – YouTube to Share Revenues with Users

Google owned YouTube is going to start sharing revenues with users. They said they were originally against it because they wanted video lovers not money lovers. Now they realize that the money lovers can probably create ... [Read More]

The Power of Digg Beyond Traffic

There has been lots of debate this week about whether social media traffic is good or bad. I lean pretty heavily towards the GOOD side. But let's look beyond that for a minute and look at another example of the power of ... [Read More]

The Other Impact of Social Networks: Discussion and Criticism

The New York Times and similar newspaper websites have the "Share" button on their site for a reason: to promote stories and to encourage commentary. Once your content has been recognized in the social sphere, a byproduct of ... [Read More]

Social Search and Why We Should Care: A Chris Sherman Webcast

I've really taken a liking to these SearchMarketingNow webcasts. In today's webcast, I have had the pleasure to listen to Chris Sherman who tackled the topic of Social Search: New Marketing Opportunities. With a lot of ... [Read More]

The Digging Debate: Is Social Media Worthless?

There's a big debate in the blogosphere about long term effects (if any) related to being Dugg. Kim Krause Berg, who recently posted a ton of useful links relating to web design, had her post hit the Digg main page. From ... [Read More]