Time Magazine made me Person of the Year.

The difference between getting 5 links and 50 links for a story is often just a couple good mentions.

The good news for Microsoft is that the company pulled in something like $12.5 billion last quarter. The bad news is most of that didn’t come from search, and the company expects less of its revenue to come from search in the near future.

Either someone smart is working with Senator – and would-be POTUS – Hillary Clinton, or she is a lot hipper to the Web 2.0 jive than I might have thought.

Rich Skrenta feels that it’s time for the Winner To Take All. Google has won in what he calls the Third Age of Computing.

Social networking sites are the primary force driving US and UK mobile phone users to upload content to a variety of Web sites.

The practice of people creating a multitude of links to President George Bush’s WhiteHouse.gov profile with the words ‘miserable failure’ as anchor text has been known as Google bombing. Now Google has made a change rendering that Google Bomb a dud.

One of the nice things about Flickr is that because of their open API a whole host of developers have built more and more interesting things to do with the site.

The adoption of web browsing on mobile devices has helped Opera Mini enjoy a successful first year in and out of the pockets of people around the world.

A great deal of our book, Search Engine Marketing, Inc. turns on the business case for search marketing.

Yahoo ended its fiscal year by announcing an early arrival for its Panama search advertising platform, and CEO Terry Semel thinks it will help their overall search business.

It’s an all-too-common problem: you’re reading War and Peace when the name “Vyzama” stops you dead in your tracks; you simply can’t continue with the novel until you know where this Russian town is located. Google Book Search and Google Maps are now teaming up to render such problems obsolete.

I’ve always heard horror stories of small business owners and clients who don’t pay their bills.

My friend and occasional sparring partner Scott Karp over at Publishing 2.0 has a good post today about the transitory nature of the Digg “flash crowd” phenomenon – the point being, as he puts it, that “not all traffic is created equal.”

Google Earth has become a very popular application among users wanting to explore various parts of the glob via satellite imagery. Rumors are now circulation that Google is looking to take its technology a step further and implement facets of Google Earth in a project aimed a creating a virtual environment, much like that of Second Life.

Well, that’s a better title than “Sunning Your Yahoo At the Dance” right? On to business. Yahoo is adding two new channels to its video platform: the Sundance Channel for the latest outrage over creepy Dakota Fanning scenes; and Expo TV, a consumer-generated product review channel featuring “videopinions.”

I remember having great discussions about Microsoft vs. Apple back in the 1980s and 1990s. We all survived those years without too many hurt feelings.

I caught up with Lars Johansson earlier this week to discuss Web Analytics in Europe.

Matt points to an interesting article about using an open business model.

A post over at Threadwatch just caught my attention. Of course with a title like Web 2.0, Dude, Who Cares, Where’s Phone 2.0? how could it not grab attention?

The Super Bowl is coming. It’s in Miami. It’s a big event … for advertisers. And, well, while the costs are high – to the tune of $2.6M for 30 seconds – the build up and after-game buzz can help make or break an ad.

Database services firm infoUSA will run a commercial for its Salesgenie.com service during Super Bowl XLI, which will be broadcast on Sunday, February 4 on CBS. The ad will air during the first half of the game and will be a 30 second spot.

There’s a long standing debate in the search marketing industry about links versus content. Which is better?

Consumer protection agencies from Norway and the Netherlands have threatened to take legal action against Apple unless iTunes file-sharing limitations are lifted by later this year.