Google has been successful in many different, almost unrelated, endeavors, but one thing that it lacks is a popular social networking site. The search engine giant has, however, managed to establish an advertising deal with MySpace, and Friendster’s CEO recently indicated that Google made a similar arrangement with his company.

The editor and participants at the lively sports blog Deadspin attempted to establish a fund to benefit the family and platoon of Adam Knox, who died in the service of his country.

Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been a topic of much buzz and speculation throughout the blogosphere over the past several months. With the advent of rival content providers offering music in non-DRM formats, the practice seems to be standing on its last legs.

I’ve been writing about companies who are committed to making a difference. I think the issue boils down to a very simple question: “Who else can win?”

The Internet has played an increasing role in politics. It has become a tool for potential candidates at the local, state and national level. Politicians know that using blogs or video is just another way to get their message out and further build their base.

Now, no one’s going to suggest YouTube has passed MySpace to become the number one trafficked website on the internet (assuming MySpace is even that), but Google’s aquisition can claim one thing: #5 on Alexa’s rankings.

In conversations, forums and conferences, I continually hear search engine optimization professionals and business executives talking about the so-called “perfect tactics.”

LinkedIn has been generating a signifigant amount of buzz in the last few weeks.

While no doubt Google’s simple and clean applications have been a hit with some users, I’m really impressed with what Yahoo is showing off in its new Messenger for Windows Vista.

Douglas A Karr provides two great examples of how to build traffic to your blog.

Matt Cutts has confirmed that there is a Google Page Rank update underway.

A comp.unix.shell newsgroup post asked a neophyte question about how to run a script in the background.

I thought I’d pass on this nifty little site (actually, it’s huge) that I stumbled upon over at Phil Lenssen’s Google Blogoscoped site (he credited David Hetfield) called the World’s Highest Site. What the developers have done is – through …

Nielsen Media Research is in the early stages of installing Internet tracking software on the home computers of people in its TV ratings households. The goal is to measure traditional TV and online video content. So far they are only measuring a small number of homes.

“We all sell the same thing… there’s no difference between what one company offers compared to another.” Those are the words a manager of a large, but struggling technology solution provider revealed to me.

CBS plans to continue its relationship with new types of media. CEO, Leslie Moonves in a keynote address at CES in Las Vegas outlined plans for the media company. He believes CBS can continue to be relevant by changing with the times and further embracing new technology. He dismissed the perception that CBS was old media.

Cisco has sued Apple over its use of the term iPhone for its newly announced mobile device, despite reports that they were near an agreement with Apple to share the name.

Business management is a topic that receives entire books and lecture circuits worth of discussion.

Online advertising is meeting a crossroad in 2007, shifting from a focus on generic keyword targeting and universal search results to a more targeted, behavioral-based model. Page views and traditional SEO will lose focus, and Google is leading the way on all roads at once.

It seems that everyone is creating their usual New Years Resolutions list. Bloggers are no exceptions, and you will find resolutions and predictions for 2007 everywhere on the internet.

To understand and then combat a brute force attack, also known as a dictionary attack, we must start by understanding why it might be an appealing tool for a hacker.

One of the biggest threats to Google’s dominance will doubtfully be a competing search engine, at least for the time being… No, if you had to narrow it down, the biggest threat will probably come in the form of search result spam – the main reason Google’s engineers have paid so much lip-service to cleaning up their organic results.

Even if you don’t know one bit of PHP, the Dreamweaver PHP buttons can help you create database functions on your webpages. Learn more in this lesson on Dreamweaver and PHP/SQL.

According to the Millward Brown research consultancy, Google is Britain’s most popular brand. And while that accomplishment in impressive enough its own right, the search engine company achieved it while spending remarkably little money on advertising.