Pew Internet and Life said in a recent report that 57 percent of teens now create Internet content, whether it is a blog, a web page, or simply sharing offline content online.

As part of their latest online initiative for extending Microsoft services to the masses through Windows Live and Office Live, the software giant announced their acquisition of Swiss software company media-streams.com to offer voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) for office communications.

While professional SEO (search engine optimization) is becoming increasingly recognized as an extremely effective component of an overall marketing mix, the SEO industry itself is still very much in its infancy.

JupiterResearch did some digging in the metrics for the online travel market in the U.S. and came up with some big numbers in the coming years. Their report entitled, “U.S. Travel Forecast, 2005 to 2010,” predicts $68 billion by the end of 2005 and $104 billion by 2010.

One of the coolest things I’ve seen recently came out of a small group of hackers in the Search group at Yahoo.

Digital book programs seem to be all the rage since a particularly large search engine company decided to put most all books online. Online retailer Amazon decided to offer an alternative to publishers that should sit well with them. They will SELL digital books.

Katy Whitton has a few basic tips on making one’s blog a more appealing one for visitors, and pulling in those sweet advertising dollars.

The developers behind the Gnosh meta-search call it “dim-sum for the web,” and it puts all kind of searched morsels on the user’s plate. For once a search engine has come from an institute of higher learning that isn’t called Stanford.’

The 21st Century, where all things tech, software, media, and e-business will converge and boom with deafening force, is creating a new realm of specialization that is vital to an evolve or die type of market. That realm, as many are learning through litigation and deflated new product hopes, is intellectual property rights. Intellectual Ventures, a company spawned by two former Microsoft employees, recognizes the potential of this burgeoning market, collecting patents rather than products.

If even a small percentage of Microsoft employees take him seriously (and many at least read his stuff), then this will only serve to help Yahoo.

Local search will benefit most from the upgrades Yahoo has made to its mapping service, and developers get some new APIs to use to develop their applications.

Search engine Ask Jeeves released the latest cog in their search engine wheel, the desktop search tool updates. After thorough polishing the butler felt like it was time to get some more shine out of tool. He’s added a number of new features that should make the AJDS more workable.

After resuming their controversial book scanning of five major libraries on Tuesday, Google has announced that a number of public domain books (books out of copyright) are now available for browsing online.

When you’re the champ, everybody takes a shot-and sometimes it’s a shot below the belt (the belt being the equator). Yahoo! Australia and New Zealand gives a bloke a second option if, for some strange reason, they want search for Google on Yahoo!.

Has Google disrupted the businesses of Yahoo and Microsoft? Yes! It got me out of bed to write this post.

Scoot over, Scoble; bump in a bit, Batelle; there’s a blogger out there who’s worthier than anyone, and with no apologies to Mark Cuban, her blog is on Blog*Spot.

Bill Gates thinks that users should benefit from using one search engine or another, and predicts price competition could emerge as engines bid for users.

When eBay debuted its recent marketing campaign, they said you could find It on eBay, whatever it is; for one man, ‘It’ is the keys to the mayor’s office in Danville, IL.

I haven’t yet absorbed all the information about Microsoft’s introduction of Windows Live and Microsoft Office Live yesterday, although I have read the press release plus scanned a few tech-focused articles this morning via Memeorandum.

This paper outlines a common sense, cost-effective approach to lowering total cost of ownership and improving Web site and Web application performance according to two simple principles:

A new blog kicked off yesterday about the all things Apple. The blog over at the brilliant BusinessWeek called “Byte of the Apple” will be written by Peter Burrows, Arik Hesseldahl and Cliff Edwards. It should provide some interesting insight into the world of Apple.

Yahoo announced yesterday that a minor update to its ranking algorithm was implemented over the weekend.