A few weeks back, at the NewComm Forum, I had the opportunity the chance the pleasure of meeting Erin Caldwell, one of the many student PR stars at Auburn University.

The owner of Yahoo China spent three-fourths of the $1 billion it received from Yahoo last summer on research & development and other projects.

Around the time Google announced “Big Daddy,” there was a new Googlebot roaming the web. Since then I’ve heard stories from clients of websites and servers going down and previously unindexed content getting indexed.

Learning IPv6 is paramount in your efforts to pass the BSCI exam and go on to earn your CCNP, and its going to help in your real-world networking career as well.

Google and Nike have launched Joga, a website for soccer fans and players (and it says soccer, not football). Its invite-only, and logins are through Google accounts (which is really surprising to me).

I always wanted to be an expert in something. After six years of college and two degrees, I thought I was a political expert.

Last week Scoble explained why he was unsubscribing from Memeorandum. More recently he wrote…

This publication is focused on Canadian issues, however, it’s marketed to companies that have employee relations in Canada and US.

Damn, I wish I hadn’t read blogs today. I took yesterday off. I might take the rest of the week off.

Distributing your company’s news… everyone’s doing it… enter the press release. If you or your company is working hard then you need to spread the word, however, in order to effectively get the word out and have your news picked up on you need to be careful and be sure to follow a few simple rules.

Podcasting as a viable business venture takes another mainstream step with news that PodTech Network has received $5.5 million in venture capital funding from Venrock Associates, US Venture Partners, and Silicon Valley angel investors.

There’s some info coming out on the fourth “Origami” Ultra Mobile PC (after the Asus, Samsung and Founder devices), and it doesn’t use an Intel chip.

MarketingVOX has details of a new report from the Luxury Institute which outlines how the rich use the web.

ZDNet Google blogger Garett Rogers has suggested an upgrade to Google Analytics, where Google tracks your eye movements by following your mouse around the screen.

Barry reports at Search Engine Watch that YouGov has finished a study in which British users voted Google their Favourite Online Brand.

If you reject all the other research and rationale for CEOs to communicate with employees-especially during times of change and stress-you should pay attention to the recently released “Return on Reputation” survey.

The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act Of 2006 submitted by Senator Arlen Specter will be the “final nail in the coffin” for US technology job seekers, with plenty of loopholes for employers to exploit while hiring foreign-born workers at lower wages.

It wasn’t so much that we loved James Bond. We wanted to be James Bond. He had some serious gadgetry, and unlike fellow gadget-chucking hero Batman, 007′s suave style of lewdness earned him a license to thrill-incessantly.

Reading any of the major search engines’ explanations of their paid search networks and where they will display ads is at minimum misleading.

Public relations, an industry of professional communicators, not only scored at the bottom of all categories in the “Internet Standards Assessment Report,” but also apparently could not copywrite an effective flu shot campaign during an epidemic.

I’ve got three tabs open with Microsoft legal issues, so its time to unload them all at once, real fast:

The process of search engine optimization and placement has undergone a number of fundamental changes over the past year.

Here’s a neat Google Maps mashup: GeoTool lets you enter an IP address and get the location of it in Google Maps.

A federal judge in Philadelphia tossed out copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Google, where the plaintiff claimed the search engine’s archive of his Usenet posts constituted republication.