Accessibility is an abstract concept for the average web designer/developer, because he or she has never needed accessible web pages.

GigaOM Yahoo & Facebook: Deal or No Deal? Robert Young writing over at GigaOm says that Yahoo! should build a Facebook clone and target the 14-22 student demographic.

Old media is slowly waking to see the potential of online video content. CBS is a good example of this. Back in October YouTube launched a channel for CBS that has developed into a successful partnership between old media and new media. CBS has uploaded close to 300 clips since November to YouTube. Around 15 million people have viewed the clips.

If we’re to believe the tripe fed to us by CNET recently, we’d have to add the New York Times to the list of “spammers” and “scammers” out to game Digg. Why?

Have you ever considered how well a regular if/else-statement performs? I haven’t, but after watching this Channel9 video I wanted to test it.

One cannot go an evening at a Search Engine Strategies conference without some type of revelry and Wednesday night was no exception. Clicktracks delivered an encore of sorts by having a party at B.L.U.E.S. which is where TrueLocal had a party two days prior.

Google Base now has a podcast section, along with a special promo page asking podcasters to upload their casts to Base.

Is Google spamming AdWords members with auto dialing technology? According to a WebmasterWorld post pointed out by Threadwatch, it certainly appears as if that’s the case. The poster in question, who happens to be an AdWords member, received an automated …

Online spending continues to increase at a record breaking pace. Cyber Monday the first Monday after Thanksgiving saw online sales reach an all time high of $608 million. The record was short lived. Last Monday, December 4 online sales shot to $647 million according to comScore Networks. That is $39 million more in online spending than on Cyber Monday. It also marks a 26 percent increase over the same day from last year.

I’ve been looking over what I’ve been putting on my link blog trying to see trends that are happening.

Google has joined the Eclipse Foundation, which describes itself as “an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software.”

Starting Tuesday I am going to begin a multi part series in which expert Web Analytics Analysts from the industry will explain the “pains” they hear most about from their own clients.

Once Microsoft Vista gets into the marketplace, it will benefit the economy and drive job creation in the tech industry; no word on whether it will whiten teeth and freshen breath though.

As most of you know, the WebProNews crew was in Chicago last week providing mad amounts of coverage, video and otherwise. Like the Vegas PubCon, the “theme” of Chicago’s SES had to do with social media optimization or SMO (there’s …

You remember all the fun we had watching VH1′s “Pop-up Videos?” A start-up out of Israel has developed an interactive Web-based platform that lets users create their own pop-up videos by inserting comic-style speech and thought bubbles.

It seems odd at first glance that just because the New York Times caught up with the news-sharing concept by adding tools to submit to Digg, Facebook, and Newsvine got a whole article written about it in the Seattle Post Intelligencer. It’s about time, you might think, but the real story is the serious lift and credibility it gives those Web 2.0 sites.

Online video as a social marketing mechanism has hit full stride with the pervasive popularity of video-sharing site, YouTube. Network television and various record labels have begun to embrace the platform as a new and untapped advertising resource. The presence of major sports entities, however, remains fragmented.

You know I agree with John Krystynak’s take – because earlier I accused wild and crazy Peanut Butter Man, Brad Garlinghouse, of “incrementalism.”

Among other things, a post today by my friend Scott Karp over at Publishing 2.0 has helped crystallized for me just how inadequate a lot of the terminology is that we’re using for Web services and communities – and not just the obvious kind of cringe-inducing terms like “user-generated content.”

China’s top search engine Baidu launches blog search service on Thursday to aid bloggers in their navigation.

Loren Baker from Search Engine Journal tells us it’s that time of year again for the SEJ Search Blog Awards.

The Google Toolbar doesn’t fuel Google’s index, nor is Google working hand in hand with the Central Intelligence Agency, even if Google did buy Keyhole, once backed by In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm.

For several years now I’ve been looking for something Bill Gates said. Unfortunately I had misremembered the actual words, and every time I found someone who thought they remembered it, they had the wrong words too and I’d come up dry yet again.

In a clever holiday marketing ploy, Coca-Cola and YouTube have collaborated to bring joy to the world with their online video cards.