More and more, our clients are telling us about the great deal their hosting company has (or their CMS company, or an outside vendor) on search engine optimization (SEO).

On-demand CRM can be likened to a disruptive technology that proves its usefulness over a period of time and finally is there to stay.

Okay, even Gawker admits this could be phony, but it has to get written up: The New York Post’s Page Six says George Clooney is trying to destroy Gawker Stalker by spamming the system.

Over half of the business executives in The Netherlands and Germany find blogging a mystery; and, although French executives are au fait,’ few of them are bloggers.

Putting your brand on a stadium is relatively low risk, albeit expensive advertising.

Scott Guthrie is a general manager at Microsoft. One thing I like is his blog. It’s been getting more and more popular with developers over the past few months.

Last week we talked about media and marketers partnering with YouTube, rather than fighting it. E! Entertainment Television understands this and they are putting their money where their mouth is.

I’ve been getting more and more email lately asking to have a look at Office 2007.

A couple weeks ago, I went to the Silicon Valley PRSA blockbuster lunch and took notes. From these notes, I wrote a post for the FORWARD blog, the student-run Website and blog, for students.

Walt Mossberg likes Ask.com, says John Battelle.

I saw this on the news tonight. This guy, Benjamin Thompson, has an RFID chip implanted in his hand.

The Journal is reporting (subscription required) that Facebook is shopping itself for as much as $2 billion, but that potential acquirers don’t agree with this valuation.

Google has today announced Google Romance, an online dating search service that utilizes Soulmate Search technology.

Matt Cutts leaves Google for Yahoo – Matt Cutts Blog

The latest product debut from Google will utilize Contextual Dating Technology to help people find a contextually suitable soulmate.

eComXpo is coming up next week April 4-6 and offers a great lineup of online marketing presentations with keynotes by Bryan Eisenberg, Author of “Call to Action”, Anne Holland Founder of MarketingSherpa and Geoff Ramsey CEO of eMarketer .

I had lunch with Dennis McDonald yesterday. We were initially introduced through the LinkedinBloggers Group, where he is now one of the moderators.

Okay, so been sitting here thinking about Strumpette (no need to link), and the call I got from Brian Connolly … and just mulling it over to think over the whole thing.

No doubt we’ll hear more on this one next week… drag and drop, click pin to open html file, embed mashup within web pages…

I see Rick Segal picking on Amazon’s CTO after reading a bunch of blogs this morning about our Amazon talk (and the ensuing controversy about whether or not we answered questions very well or not).

Flash banners (those of .swf extension) are becoming very common in Internet promotion – they are so frequently used because Macromedia Flash is a rather simple tool for producing complicated animation effects of fine quality.

Albert Lai, yesterday, released a bunch of new features for his Bubbleshare photo service.