Last July, Microsoft and Nortel announced a strategic partnership in order to develop innovative methods of business communication by focusing on integrating voice, e-mail, instant messaging, multimedia conferencing and other forms of communication.

When you write for your customers, you’d rather address them directly in your site copy, instead of speaking about the product, vague benefits or even your company.

The recent abuse of the social networking site, Orkut, of Google created lot of uproar in the country.

What is the best way to promote a Press Release? The obvious choice would be to create a viral marketing campaign which would hopefully end up sticking around for months.

I’m sure most of you understand the concept of a Google bomb (it should be called a search bomb because these “campaigns” effect more than Google’s index) and how they can cause humorous search results. Sometimes however, these little contextual …

Are you planning start your own online store? Avoid these mistakes if you want your online shop to be successful.

Google handed out awards for the best Google Gadgets by college students.

The rich got richer during the big holiday month of December, as Google and Yahoo gained in comScore’s search engine rankings while the competition gave ground.

A search engine will soon provide its users with free music, but before you get too excited, know that the tunes are mostly Chinese in origin. And even fans of Asian music shouldn’t get too worked up, because the initial offering will be a streaming service (as opposed to a download service). Nonetheless, any and all thanks should be directed to Baidu and EMI.

Web2.0 is a term coined to refer to web applications that run without visible page refreshes. A normal website functions by delivering pages of information, with links that allow a user to move from page to page.

Think that ClickTracks has the most advanced graphical displays of web site visitor statistics?

Although the concept of Digg seems very simple, it is actually very complicated.

Aren’t you glad I didn’t include an image with this post? OK, so SEO isn’t rocket science, but it’s not a colonoscopy either. Well, maybe GooogIe thinks SEO is rocket science, but what do they know.

I had planned on publishing an in-depth review of the new Wikipedia-based search engine, WikiSeek, but it wasn’t supposed to launch until tomorrow and now TechCrunch has decided not to wait on their coverage.

The Freedom of Information Act has enabled many people to request previously classified documents from federal agencies. Few agencies elicit as much interest from individuals as does the Central Intelligence Agency.

There has been talk about using Wordpress beyond the typical blog set-up, into the realms of a full-fledged content management system or CMS. Yet, most people have no idea how this is even possible.

Read/WriteWeb has a pretty cool summary of all the acquisitions made by Yahoo since around 2005.

Matt Asay has some good advice for folks asking him for career advice: “Work for an open source company.”

Links play an important role in the ranking of pages by the search engines.

Ahh, Netflix is doing online videos. But, this isn’t the Verisign thing I saw last week at CES. It’s streaming only. It’s Windows only. I don’t believe that it’s HD.

Second Life presents its residents with many unique opportunities for social interaction, commerce, and entertainment. Could virtual gambling be the next “feature” to be offered in Linden’s online world? If so, what would the offline legal ramifications look like?

Over a year ago, Google paid a billion dollars for a chunk of AOL, and probably the most exciting part of the deal was the announcement that Google Talk and AOL Instant Messenger would probable eventually connect to each other.

Online advertisers should be open to placing their ads on smaller sites and not always focus on large sites according to new research from Media-Screen. The “Net pop| Response” study found that small long-tail Web sites are valuable to consumers and online advertisers.

MyBlogLog has been growing leaps and bounds since it’s launch about 6 months ago.