Light blogging until the weekend as I’ll be in London tonight for the first UK preview of Microsoft’s Windows Live.

Instead of Google using brands to power search advertising, Pontiac is turning the tables and using Google to power its brand.

Jeremiah Owyang shared a neat tool with the Frost conference attendees, Talk Digger.

A few things on Google today that I decided to roundup all in one post:

PodGuideTV notes that three Viacom nets – Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central – now have shows for sale on the iTunes Music Store.

Well, I guess I should be glad I didn’t leave Seattle before the Microsoft earnings report, otherwise having to post about it a day later.

Search Marketing Standard enters the turbulent world of print media publishing with a quarterly magazine debuting this summer.

The Associated Press is blogging the World Economic Forum from Davos, Switzerland where political, business and media leaders are gathered.

With all respect to Jackie Huba, I disagree with her assertion that companies should dump their webinars for podcasts or videocasts.

An online community for American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, called TroopNet, went live Monday that allows former and present soldiers from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom to post profiles and pictures, search for others based on a number of criteria, link to “buddies,” and privately message other members.

This must be a glitch at Google. Search for anything with Google and it will not let you navigate beyond the first page of results.

It’s no secret that PRWeek is undergoing a redesign, an annoying little countdown teaser has been flashing on the home page for a while now, but from an outsider’s perspective, it seems that bigger changes are already a foot; changes in how the publication approaches its content.

When youre studying to pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP certification, youre going to be introduced to ISIS.

Paul Thurrott reports that the second beta of Windows Vista is scheduled to drop on April 12.

This is something all marketers should be aware of. LowerMyBills.com just won $200,000 from NexTag the comparison shopping search engine.

One protest against Google’s decision to offer search in China while agreeing to that government’s censorship led one prominent blog to discard AdSense from its pages.

“How ya gonna keep em down on the farm After they’ve seen Paree”

SimplyHired has teamed with the dog-loving website Dogster to help dog lovers find jobs with companies that permit their workers to bring man’s best friend with them to the office each day.

In order to comply with a European antitrust ruling, Microsoft has agreed to license out its Windows source code.

While I was at the WOMMA conference I had the pleasure of meeting the delightful Tara Kirchner.

I hate posting rumors, but I won’t ignore this one. J. Botter says Yahoo has an offer on the table to buy Digg, the community news service, for $35 million.

Subscribers to Times Select have nearly reached the level forecast by the company, while advertising revenues increased for the publisher as well.