About a month ago, I did a post about a fellow who is working to raise money and media attention in order to secure a sponsor for a marriage proposal during the Super Bowl, “One Super Proposal“.

I think the coolest thing that many of the bloggers in the BlogHaus saw was the water show in front of the Bellagio tonight. Paul Mooney recorded it.

Kristopher and I are here and landed at CES. Our first visit? Straight to the Bloghaus.

If you have a site which equally covers 4 parallel areas and you put the same amount of content up for each area odds are that one area will drastically outperform all the others.

Hoping to capitalize on the online teen market Hearst Magazine’s digital unit has acquired eCrush.com a conglomerate of entertainment and social networking sites for teens and young adults. The purchase price has not been disclosed.

A public relations effort by Microsoft and Acer to provide a number of bloggers with Acer laptops loaded with Windows Vista became something of a PR nightmare for Microsoft; Acer has its own little issue to handle now too.

Try to access the website of payment service InterBill and you’ll get a white-screen notice that the site is “under construction.” We can, for lack other information, assume it has nothing to do with the Federal Trade Commission filing suit over the company’s affiliation with a major scam.

Okay, so Yahoo finally fronted the cash (reportedly about $10-million) for MyBlogLog, the viral social network that a couple of guys started awhile back and that has been growing by leaps and bounds according to Alexaholic.

A search that I have noticed that has been passed to my site was “perl c# comparison“, I would assume that the person that asked this was trying to compare the languages and not how c# and perl perform comparisons.

Interesting news that Linden Labs have open sourced the Second Life client source code under GPLv2.

Today, Google announced another mobile partnership (this time with Samsung), and Yahoo released Yahoo Go 2.0 (this is not long after Ask released their mobile search, which didn’t include a search box).

Sunday night Bill Gates shared his vision of the future to kickoff the Consumer Electronics Show – and focus attention during the annual gadget-fest on the role of Microsoft’s Vista in how consumers will be using electronics and technology in the coming year.

AOL is debuting a documentary film today called Darkon on its site True Stories. During the month of January the film will be available online free prior to its theatrical release. Darkon documents the fantasy adventures of people who gather in parks in the Baltimore/D.C. area.

Roughly one month ago, on December 11, I signed up for Jim Kukral’s BlogKits service.

In my last column, I scoured the web, drumming up angry AdWords users from the depths of blogs and message boards and consolidating their suffering into a plaintive against Google’s customer service.

From Karoli at Odd Time Signatures comes the story (via The Zero Boss, and prior to that Chris Winfield of the website 10e20) of one Chandler Kent, a 19-year-old college student who wandered into the sights of the Digg bury brigade.

Now that Google has been around long enough to be eligible for Fortune Magazine’s “The 100 Best Companies to Work For” list, it promptly debuted at number one.

On Friday, Google and Earthlink came to finalized terms on the contract to build infrastructure for a free wireless network for the city of San Francisco. The city’s Board of Supervisors must now approve the deal in order for the companies to move forward with construction.

If you want an idea of what’s ailing America these days, shuffle over to Digg and check out the top posts for the past 24 hours.

Ever wonder what sort of questions people are asking about Google’s services? Well, just in case you were, there’s a new list showing the “top questions” from the help files of 26 different services. And if that’s not enough to draw you in, a number of “funny, funky, noteworthy or weird quotes” from those same help files follows afterward.

As online video has evolved, the question of how to advertise and when to advertise has been burning. There are no experts in this realm, only testers, debating about post-roll or pre-roll ads, layered content, and how long an online video viewer would view a commercial. Google is latest to try it out, and they may have a winner.

Linden Lab, creator of the popular Second Life virtual world, is making the code for its Viewer interface available in open source format. Developers will now be able to access the source code for the Second Life client in order to make modifications, enhancements or to add new features.

What’s the deal with contracts, copyrights and Web-Related Services?

You’d think the answer to this question would be simple-always sign a contract, period- but it isn’t.

While this question applies over a broad spectrum of fields, it is especially ambiguous in the freelance world. This series of articles is geared towards individuals or companies looking to hire service providers like web designers, copywriters and internet marketers on a contract or freelance basis.

The growth in membership and usage of social networking sites has been driven by teens, and older teenage girls figure prominently in driving their rise.