Oracle the Database Company is taking time out on its corporate blog to address a number of critics on the security of Oracle Databases.

If you have a digital camera or a camera phone you can be a photojournalist. That’s at least what Reuters and Yahoo are thinking. The two have created a project to bring newsworthy photos or videos to their sites.

I recently made another post about the importance of brand building and niche markets, and Solomon Rothman commented that one way to go niche is to go stylized / have a unique delivery approach, which is totally valid.

Heavy Internet traffic to websites was virtually matched by the money people were willing to spend on retailer sites, by almost 25 percent more than last year.

Recent changes to the Yahoo TV section of the Yahoo website drew irritated responses from users and several screeds from bloggers denouncing those alterations.

You may have heard the term link bait discussed in search engine optimization circles. In SEO speak, link bait is content that attracts natural incoming links from other blogs and websites.

Hmmm, wonder why Google’s brand in my brain is going up and not down?

I recently had the opportunity to develop a small online booking system. This time around I was determined to make use of some development framework.

AOL Spanish-language portal dubbed “AOL Latino” is finally made available to users at no cost.

Local search just became a little more competitive as IACI’s Ask.com now has a dedicated product, called AskCity, available with mobile friendliness, walking directions, and multi-step route construction for its users.

1. How’s the show goin’ for ya?

I love that someone updated the ScobleShow Wiki of all my archives with images.

Recently, we attended Web 2point2, an ‘unconference’ driven by participants and based on conversations, not powerpoints.

Yahoo! and comScore released the results of a joint research project, entitled “Close the Loop: Understanding Search and Display Synergy,” aimed at gauging the impact of search and display advertising campaigns when employed both independently and in concert with one another.

Thomas (TwisterMC) and I arrived fine in Chicago without delay. Unlike many other travelers, including Shoemoney who I talked to about a 4+ hour delay.

During an early session at SES Chicago 2006, the speakers on the topic of video optimization all made a similar suggestion – keep that meta data identifiable so your video will be too. Chris Richardson of WebProNews was on hand to pick up the details.

This was more of a speed intro to some of Google’s newer services. Topics included Google Analytics, Google Gadgets, Webmaster Tools and Personalized Search.

A “Packet Sniffer” is a utility that sniffs without modifying the network’s packets in any way.

The vendor spotlight session covered alternatives or additives to going with PPC campaigns from companies like Google and Yahoo.

It continues to amaze me how many clueless or sloppy PR pitches we get week in and week out.

To get one’s videos indexed correctly by the search engines dedicated to that content, it’s the spoken word rather than the pretty pictures that matter most. Mike McDonald listened in on the expert panel at SES Chicago discussing the process.

Women 2.0 (a division of Entrepreneur27) and Stanford BASES are hosting their next event focused on individuals who went against tradition and took big risks, resulting in careers that they really enjoy. In many cases, these entrepreneurs actually “created” or joined real business based on their passions, allowing them to earn a living doing something they love.

I should have a corporate blog of the week.

Resumes have come a long way since they were just typed pages that chronologically listed employment histories, job duties, and educational qualifications. Hiring managers are inundated with hundreds of Resumes that still follow “old school”.