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 — a habit that has helped propel its stock price above $500. And people thought… [read more]

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 arises if there's any value to blogs beyond personal ramblings and thoughts. In… [read more]

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 widget that allows users to see how many incoming links their website has from… [read more]

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 popular service for quick, free translations. Does it deserve to be in the top ten?… [read more]

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 know. [read more]

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 some killer video. Co-founder Chad Hurley made the announcement today: We are… [read more]

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 social media with two very different companies: Sprint and Linden Lab. Last week,… [read more]

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 this promotion is discussion. The discussion, as we know, is not necessarily… [read more]

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 social networks out there, where can you leverage your traffic and what problems… [read more]

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 the exposure, her blog got 28,000 new hits. Her reaction? Not very positive.… [read more]