You may have heard mention of “microformats” recently. If you investigated, you probably ran across mumbling like this from http://microformats.org/about/:

When I bought my first home, I used a lawyer that a friend referred me to. The lawyer was great, thorough, responded quickly and took the time to explain things in plain English.

Entrepreneurship has made a resurgence, in recent years, as a viable career option for many people.

Universal Serial Buses are a category of hardware that allows the easy addition or connection of extra serial devices into your personal computer.

It was day three at the Blog Business Summit and time for Fifteen Ways to a Killer Blog with Robert Scoble and Maryam Scoble.

The Global Code Jam sponsored by Google culminated in New York with a championship round of coding at the search advertising company’s recently-opened offices in the Big Apple.

The company that produces the Student Aptitude Test is developing a new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) exam that tests skills such as computer proficiency and search engine aptitude, and may soon be as relevant as the SAT itself.

Text-Link-ads.com has a link ads calculator that purports to tell you how much an ad link on your site (or someone else’s) is worth.

Have you checked out the latest in search from Microsoft’s live.com search engine… enter Ms. Dewey (MSDewy).

How does the value of an ‘ Executive Interim Manager’ work in practice? Here are just a couple of examples of how ‘Interim Executives’ stepped in to help a sample of large International organisations.

Among the toughest tasks that marketers face daily is tracking what is being said about their company or its brands in the media, identifying which of the external voices are most influential and are having the most impact-positively or negatively-and then devising a strategy and specific tactics to influence the influencers.

Froogle’s replacement, Google Base, has been missing in action from the Google search results, but some sleuthing may have turned up the elusive service.

The ability to manage customers is one defining factor that separates your average worker from someone with management potential.

When it comes to social networking, sites that target businesspeople are pretty small potatoes. LinkedIn, the category leader, has 7.8 million members, a respectable niche, but not in the same league as MySpace or Facebook.

Among the toughest tasks that marketers face daily is tracking what is being said about their company or its brands in the media, identifying which of the external voices are most influential and are having the most impact-positively or negatively-and then devising a strategy and specific tactics to influence the influencers.

Microsoft has been called many things, but rarely has it been labeled “complacent,” particularly in regards to the search industry, which has been a major point of frustration for the company. Earlier today, Microsoft tried to address that issue by launching a new advertising campaign. The campaign aims to boost the company’s search market share.

As noted in the earlier posts, have been at the Forrester Consumer Forum in Chicago for the last couple of days. Here are links to the posts:

Unlike its much more heavily visited search competitor Google, Ask.com has no problem with its brand name being a dictionary word. The search engine industry needs more Scott McNealy-style chippiness between its respective companies.

Remember the tale “Villiage Wine”, where nobody thought their little bit of wine would be missed from the town festival? Then nothing but water poured forth from the cask on festival day…Social link spam is a similar thing in reverse. My few social self-diggs etc. wont affect things, so why not..?

If you were impressed with Google’s successful financial quarter, consider this: their much-ballyhooed competition with Microsoft ends at the balance sheet, as Redmond’s juggernaut pulls in as much quarterly revenue as Google will do this year.

Instead of spending tons of cash on providing substantial assistance to federal investigations of torrent trackers, maybe the MPAA should use those funds to educate its member studios about the mad, mad, mad, mad world of Internet advertising.

This update comes recently from the Google maps API blog…

At the Emetrics summit Avinash Kaushik of Intuit went around to the various web analytics vendors and asked them all the same 2 questions:

No Windows Live Barcode isn’t a joke. Read below for more info!