Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo all have potential to experience vast success in the upcoming year. By the same token, a missed step here or there could be all that stands between any of these three companies and failure of a colossal magnitude.

Several years ago, I read an article (I can’t remember if it was in Forbes or Fortune) that featured Jacques Nasser.

Around the time the World Wide Web was being opened to users of AOL for the first time, and 9600 baud was a massive upgrade in speed for modems, some clever people made predictions about the future that held up pretty well over the years.

Second Life is the virtual world that’s getting all the attention these days, especially in the English-speaking world.

Every programmer loves to optimize, even when we know we shouldn’t.

The social media concept has been in full swing ever since the recent Las Vegas PubCon. While the search industry was well aware of its existence, the idea of leveraging social media for promotional reasons was recently acknowledged as a …

Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s news analysis mockup, “The Colbert Report,” had a big year on the Internet. In addition to orchestrating a “wikiality” check for Wikipedia, Colbert attracted the second most number of links to a blog covering the White House correspondents’ dinner.

Globe and Mail journalist and author, Hal Niedzviecki, takes an interesting look at the impact bloggers are having on the lives of, wellnon-bloggers.

Video online is nothing new. In 2006 it was used mainly for entertainment purposes. Now more businesses are realizing the value of video to educate and inform customers, critics and shareholders. It is becoming an essential tool for companies to communicate their message.

2006 brought us strategies in online marketing that went beyond traditional SEM tactics.

Every business relies on effective communication with its customers.

Billions will be spent in online advertising and social networking, but if the predictions are right then Facebook probably won’t be one of the companies being sold this year.

We kick the dirt as we return to work after the holidays, noticing as we button those new pants from Mom that they’re a little snug. Okay, a lot snug. It’s comforting to know we’re not alone, as visits to dieting websites spiked by 57 percent on New Year’s Day.

The lines that separate print and online journalism are becoming ever blurred as we move into a new year. Old media has been hesitant to embrace the Internet as a new frontier of information, but it appears at least one major newspaper is looking to create a holistic, three-dimensional reading experience for its subscribers.

This year promises to mark even more innovations in the realms of marketing, search, and digital music technology. The greatest feat of 2007 may not come in terms of an addition, but rather the removal of Digital Rights Management (DRM) practices from online music stores such as iTunes and the Zune marketplace.

The last studies and figures show that the gap between the pay of a FTSE 100 company’s chief executive and that of a regular worker has widened to its highest level this decade.

When Republican Senator Mitch McConnell returned to Washington to get to work, he brought along Jon Henke to serve in a position in the US Senate.

“Online stock trading” has seen a recent boom since the inception of T.D.Waterhouse Online ETrade etc. Since then there has been a host of online web applications that provide information for “online stock trading”.

Your BCMSN and CCNP studies will include mastering the details of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).

Wikipedia founder Jim Wales wants everybody to know that he or his editing team did not ban the entire country of Qatar. While he shouts that correction to the zealous blogosphere, we are suddenly chilled at David Utter’s proclamation that the Scoop is dead.

A promise to deliver software that will detect infringing content uploaded by YouTube’s enthusiastic video sharing users has not been fulfilled.

I’m not planning on doing this – anyone want to buy boring, long videos with Web 2.0 CEOs? Heheh.

One of the most repeated terms added to the new web 2.0 glossary describing current trends in web design is “user generated content.”

Linda Zimmer, the driving force behind the Business Communicators of Second Life group, has launched the SL Business Communicators Wiki: