Socks get lost all the time, and it’s easy enough to misplace a pen.  But people perk up when a billion dollars disappears, and eMarketer has lowered its prediction concerning U.S. online advertising spending by that amount.

Safari users on their preferred Mac hardware platform can pick up an updated version of Inquisitor, a version of Yahoo Search Assist.

The push to AdSense for Feeds begins in earnest.

Two national studies of political consultants and American voters indicate that candidate Web sites are almost as effective for reaching loyal base voters as network and cable television ads.

Twenty-five percent of political consultants said a candidate’s own Web site was effective for communication with base voters while 26 percent said television and cable ads are useful. Close to half (46%) said the best way to reach base voters is with email, followed by direct mail, events and phone.

People noticed over the past couple of days that street maps of recently-froggy nation of Georgia were missing from Google Maps. This sparked subsequent (invented) speculation that Google had removed data about Georgia in the wake of the Russian retaliatory invasion.

Ben Ling was quoted after Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook’s most recent press release.  He wrote the company’s second-newest official blog entry.  And now the director of platform program management seems ready to work for someone else.

Bloggers are expressing their anger today after it was revealed that China decided at the Olympic opening ceremony to have a cute little girl lip-synching for the real singer who had crooked teeth.

The US and Britain go about some things differently; this was as the heart of our little squabble in the 18th Century. It’s not surprising an announcement that a UK ISP will be both music piracy police and provider of subscription music services doesn’t seem to ring many alarms.

UK advertisers who are fond of broadcast television have nothing to fear from its online counterpart, according to a new report.  In fact, the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB) found that traditional "commercial impacts" are up, and it seems to believe that any sort of switch is still a long ways off.

Jupitermedia Corporation has released the financial results for the second quarter of 2008 ending on June 30.

The company had slightly higher revenues of $35 million for the second quarter, compared with 34.6 million last year.

Searchers swimming downstream on the currents of the Internet, via the queries they make on Google, fuel significant percentages of some industry verticals.

The company’s business model of online and TV advertising expanded through the year, with Spot Runner now laying off employees to bring on others suited to the new lines of services.

Yahoo’s Brickhouse incubator opened its latest work: Fire Eagle, a location data management platform for web applications.

Depending on where you are, MySpace, Facebook, or LinkedIn may be the most popular destination for social networking.

Is Google feeling a little guilty about its Gmail outage?  Or perhaps whoever’s responsible for the company’s main blog is just bowing to the slow news day.  Regardless, Google’s giving users a heads up regarding spam and virus problems.

Internet connection speeds in the U.S. have only become slightly faster in the past year gaining just four-tenths of one megabit per second according to a new report from the Communication Workers of America (CWA).

Facebook and ConnectU settled their cases out of court some time ago.  Then ConnectU’s founders came back, claiming new evidence had surfaced.  Fresh proceedings are underway, but before things grow even more complicated, the judge has asked ConnectU to obey the terms of the first settlement.

It’s probably not a safe assumption that there’s a limit on the number of people one can actually follow on Twitter. After all, it’s possible someone has no life to prevent them being able to monitor a stream of thousands. Hey, if people actually camped out or bought scalped tickets to see "The Dark Knight" instead of just waiting 12 hours, then it’s possible to justify almost anything.

Last week, Exxon had a weird situation on its hands: a fan set up an "official" Twitter profile and tweeted on behalf of the company. Suddenly, there are two mysteries: In $4.00 per gallon gas world, how does Exxon still have fans? And how can we ever be sure a person online is who they say they are?

Social networking membership in North America is beginning to level off, in the past year the number of social networking members grew 9 percent compared to 25 percent growth for the rest of the globe, according to comScore.

The Middle East – Africa region increased 66 percent, Europe was up 35 percent, and Latin America rose 33 percent, each region grew at above average rates.

Social networking membership in North America is beginning to level off, in the past year the number of social networking members grew 9 percent compared to 25 percent growth for the rest of the globe, according to comScore.

The Middle East – Africa region increased 66 percent, Europe was up 35 percent, and Latin America rose 33 percent, each region grew at above average rates.

Social networking membership in North America is beginning to level off, in the past year the number of social networking members grew 9 percent compared to 25 percent growth for the rest of the globe, according to comScore.

The Middle East – Africa region increased 66 percent, Europe was up 35 percent, and Latin America rose 33 percent, each region grew at above average rates.

Social networking membership in North America is beginning to level off, in the past year the number of social networking members grew 9 percent compared to 25 percent growth for the rest of the globe, according to comScore.

The Middle East – Africa region increased 66 percent, Europe was up 35 percent, and Latin America rose 33 percent, each region grew at above average rates.

The Microsoft-Icahn-Yahoo mess has mostly blown over, but as things stand, two seats on Yahoo’s board are still empty.  A new report indicates that Edward Meyer and Frank J. Biondi, Jr. are the two men most likely to fill them on Friday.