An updated comment system for the Digg user-contributed news site offers several new features, including ratings for comments and a three-minute window to edit the comments one makes on a story.

As companies battle to win new customers and keep current ones, more companies wanting to leverage their sales and marketing strategies, strengthen their workforce, and utilize the best tools available, are making Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software choices.

I’m sitting in an airline lounge at Dulles, having just finished a talk on new media to the annual gathering of US Army Public Affairs officers.

Six time best selling author, Seth Godin speaks to Google as part of their Authors@Google series.

One of the areas of online marketing and PR that continues to gain interest is buzz marketing through blogs and similar consumer generated media.

After stirring up the search engine world with comments that MSN Search will be more relevant than Google in six months, Microsoft Europe president Neil Holloway backpedaled from his remarks.

Precise demographic targeting is the wave of the future, and adCenter has delivered an advanced platform that’s poised to deliver enormous value to search marketers.

Microsoft’s adCenter PPC ad platform has excited search marketers since it appeared in beta form last year. Why? Because for the first time, we can target searchers by age, gender and to some extent, by lifestyle.

Katie Paine has conceded a point to Shel Israel: As cheap as they are to set up and maintain, there’s really no need to measure the ROI of blogs.

A powerful combination of the leading operating system and networking system companies yielded an agreement to develop real-time communication services for the enterprise.

Gary Price reports that the Associated Press has launched a video network, the shockingly named “AP Online Video Network”.

The browser business isn’t a half bad place to be, it seems.

The Search Engine Journal “Search Engine T-Shirt Contest” will be announcing winners soon.

While some may want the “press release is dead” meme to end, the discussion could wind up producing some worthwhile ideas.

FeedBucket is another Web based RSS reader.

At the New Communications Forum last week, pretty much everybody agreed that blogs were no fad, but wikis evoked a less enthusiastic response.

There’s been a lot of debate about why RSS usage has been slow to take off among mainstream Internet consumers.

The Open AIM software development kit and support website moved into the public view Monday morning, and third-party developers have begun downloading the SDK to give it a try.

Outspoken advocates of a two-tiered Internet will soon share a single corporate structure as AT&T will shell out $67 billion to acquire BellSouth.

Xooglers’ Doug Edwards explains why the famous scrolling display of Google queries, located in the Googleplex lobby, isn’t made available for public use.

The Onion ran one of their faux “man on the street” pieces last Thursday, asking “Google recently suffered a 13% percent drop in stock price, the sharpest drop in the history of the company.

The progressives these days are running around the office shouting unintelligible words (to the old folks) like “blogs” and “wikis.” Attorneys and public relations managers duck and cover when this happens, even if the marketing team is dancing beside their cubicles (blogs and wikis are great, efficient, and economical ways to reach the masses).

The contest to find the best of the extensions and their developers for the Firefox browsers yielded ten winners out of the over 200 submissions received.

Arsenal and England international left back Ashley Cole is displeased in a legal sense over Google’s alternative suggestion in search results for his name.

Business ethics are one of those topics that receives much discussion, but sadly, not always enough action.