Microsoft, Yahoo, and Time Warner were the top three companies receiving website visitors in January 2006, as each handled more than 100 million unique visitors for the month.

ZDNet’s Ed Bott captures the pains of interpreting the do’s and dont’s of a corporate NDA in a media environment where bloggers are increasingly receiving the same levels of information and access as their big media counterparts, but are oddly being held to different standards of disclosure — which is the case, right now, with Microsoft’s Office 12 beta:

Okay, so I’ve been accused of spamming Digg, and I’d like to address it. Now, its just one guy for the most part (DiggNazi2), but the thing is, I agree with him.

What started out as an apparent debunking of an A-list blogger conspiracy has evolved into a made-up word shedding light on the search world. Microsoft’s controversial employee blogger, Robert Scoble, invited readers to use the word brrreeeport” on their blogs as a way to get “Z-list” blogs noticed, while testing the reach of the various search engines.

A technical collaboration between Microsoft and SugarCRM should enhance how SugarCRM’s product works on Windows Server platforms.

Jensense has discovered that Microsoft is working on a contextual ads platform for content, dubbed ContentAds, and that it will be discussed, if not outright announced, at Mix 06 in March.

Whether it’s the word processor, spreadsheet, or financial package that isn’t working, most people do not know that Microsoft Windows XP has a built in feature that just may come and save the day.

A dirty little secret about PR: they give certain press “exclusives” to try to get the story out better.

Could Google’s recent change to their position on manually changing search results be in light of Valleywag?

MSN, Yahoo, Google, and networking company Cisco all sent staffers to be part of a House Subcommittee hearing on their business practices in China.

Harry Tsao (co-founder of Mezi Media, which includes our clients Smarter.com and Coupon Mountain) has written an excellent insight on the U.S. government’s relations with China, for CNET.

It’s not enough that marketers/PR pros know what’s being said about clients/brands.

I’ve been thinking about this for the last day or so and have come to the conclusion that Oracle’s acquisition of Sleepycat Software (and Berkeley DB) is not about MySQL.

Randy Morin is right: If so many videos in Google Video, like all the Olympic videos, are unplayable outside the U.S., then why are they showing up in search results outside the U.S.?

As mentioned briefly in the comments section of Bootstrapping your Linux Machine, recent Linux systems have added a convenience feature to the ‘halt’ and ‘reboot’ commands: they actually call ‘shutdown’ if the system isn’t in init state 0 or 6.

If you’ve had a website for a while now, the odds are that some web designers somewhere with too much time on their hands have contacted you about this or that element of your website, telling you how they can repair it for you.

Alliance Data Systems Corp. has purchased the email marketing unit for $90 million, and gains access to DoubleClick email clients like AOL and Proctor & Gamble.

“I do not understand how your corporate leadership sleeps at night,” said California Democratic Representative Tom Lantos, addressing executives of the major search engines earlier today.

My Yahoo! has tweaked the way it displays RSS feeds. First, each feed now has a favicon.

It’s already all over the web, but we’re going to cover the announcement too.

Google has a long way to go before it can catch eBay’s PayPal, which has almost 100 million user accounts. But by coupling the power of search to a stored payment system, Google might be able to recruit a critical mass of users quickly, and GBuy could, over the period of just a few months, become a formidable competitor.

The Global Internet Freedom Task Force formed by the US State Department will focus on forming a foreign policy response to governmental threats to Internet freedom.

Google has made another alteration the Google Help Center , this time removing the assurance that Google’s results are completely automated.

There is not a great deal of news yet on the MSN adCenter blog, though the team there promises to discuss the latest goings-on with the newest competitor to AdWords and Overture.