When on a social networking panel last week I said something that can be seen as stupid or insightful.

Google lost another trademark battle against the German holder of the G-mail trademark, Daniel Giersch, The Register writes:

When KeywordRanking was still in business, we used to get calls about once a month from disaffected clients asking how to get out of contracts and to see if they were getting value for the $2,000 being spent.

OK, if you like short videos you won’t like these. Move along. Click “J” if you’re using Google Reader.

Ideas have been popping onto the Site Explorer Suggestion Board over the past year, and some of them have made it into the latest version of the Site Explorer webmaster tool.

If you read my earlier post on having my copy swiped by other companies I’m sure you feel my righteous indignation.

Recently the the seo community has been abuzz with news that the Yahoo/Overture keyword tool has not been functioning and that it may be gone permanently.

It is yet determined if patterns in the UK are mirrored in the US, but Hitwise is looking into it for us. Heather Hopkins’ “lofty” look into the future of the Internet revealed that, in the UK, vice online is on the decline, while search, social media, and more utilitarian Internet activities are on the rise.

Google had announced that it would be flying over parts of Australia on Australia Day, last week Friday, in order to take photos for Google Earth and Google Maps (Microsoft was doing it, too). Australians were excites, with people planning to build giant signs and write words on the ground, or just wave at the sky, in order to live on for a while in Google’s maps of the country.

Feed surfing the other night, I came across a rumour indicating that Oracle could potentially take over SAP in this article – Oracle Bid Rumour boosts SAP shares.

Online TV and video are arguably still in their infancy, but are set to become a strong revenue earner on a global scale. In a new report titled “Online TV and Video: Beyond User-Generated Content” from Informa Telecoms & Media, online TV and video services stand to generate global revenues of $6.3 billion by 2012. That is close to 10 times the revenue generated in 2006.

For a variety of reasons, I’ve been registering all my domain names at GoDaddy.

I have been a published author for over seven years now and if there is one thing I can’t stand about the industry its waiting!

How many AAA companies do you know of? AAA insurance did it most notably with insurance. Insurance is competitive.

An interesting, albeit controversial, set of statistics was provided by Compete.com last week outlining the top 20 online properties that a pool of 2,000,000 people spent the most time on in December 2006.

With the complexity of today’s business solutions and their far-reaching affects, more often than not senior level executives are actively involved in the process of assessing the issues and their options.

So apparently the MyBlogLog flap between Andy Beal and Jeremy Zawodny has pretty much run it’s course. Jeremy has edited his original title – which accused Andy Beal of spamming MyBlogLog, to now read “I overreact sometimes…”. In the edited …

Last week or so I blogged about doing form postings with Spry.

So Google’s a money making machine. We knew that already. We didn’t know, though we could have predicted based on the previous two quarters, how much Google would beat estimates this time around.

There is no stronger force in marketing than word of mouth. A salesperson, or evangelist, as they like to be called nowadays, has no leverage or influence greater than the authentic voice of a friend, or the experienced voice of a fellow consumer.

In advance of the earnings call, any bets on how high GOOG can go today on Wall Street? Analysts have high hopes, so to speak, as tipsters come rolling in with unbelievable numbers for Q4 2006.

So I saw Steve Rubel’s post about Technorati launching a new buzz-tracking, Digg-like thing and the first thing I thought was “WTF?”

On Jeremy’s show tonight over at WebmasterRadio.FM, “Net Income”, he and Andrea interview Brian Axe, AdSense Product Manager.

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