Sire Records is conducting an interesting marketing experiment today with the The Veronicas, a band comprising of two 20 year-old identical twins from Brisbane Australia.

Podshow, the podcasting service from Adam Curry and Ron Bloom, issued a press release today announcing the launch of the Podcast Delivery Network (PDN).

Yahoo has followed up the opening of some of their web services APIs with a pair of programming libraries for developers to use.

Sometimes it’s fun to post a little Q and A to help folks better understand different aspects for search engine optimization.

Even amid swelling controversy surrounding sexual predation on MySpace.com, Playboy Magazine is trolling the record-breaking website for models willing to pose nude for a special “Girls of MySpace” edition.

InternetWeek is running an 18-page showdown by Ed Bott, Scot Finnie, Dennis Fowler, and Ron White of the four hottest web browsers: Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 1.5, Opera 9 and Maxthon.

AOL targeted the Chinese American and Chinese speaking communities in the United States with a beta release of its China Portal.

Google’s well-known engineer Matt Cutts makes an exception to his general precedent of not talking about companies being removed from Google’s index.

An article about How Linux or UNIX Understand which program to run got picked up by a few dozen RSS feeds recently. It’s not a bad article.

Nothing chaps Microsoft’s craw more than a little competition and open source rival Linux has been the Beast of Redmond’s chief craw-chapper for some time. After years of what Linux sympathizers have called a Microsoft F.U.D. (fear, uncertainty, doubt) campaign against Linux’ total cost of ownership (TCO), Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) have dropped a little cost research of their own.

Google’s Chat in Gmail has been rolling out slowly to everyone, and now that I’ve got it, here are some screenshots and thoughts.

With Research In Motion plagued by the ongoing patent fight with NTP Technologies, Microsoft could be in position to woo away some enterprise BlackBerry users.

Hey, this is interesting. Google is testing some pay per call ads with a program called Click to Call.

SEMPO (The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) represents the Search Marketing industry’s attempt to develop a unified voice.

The SimplyFired website provides ten tips on interoffice dating, but for those whose office amore turned into nothing less than a disaster, a trip for two to Las Vegas awaits the pathetic paramour with the best bliss blow-up story.

Ever find a blogger you really like and wonder “are there other blogs similar to this one?”

The online version of the venerable financial publication led off its free week of online access with a cover story about Google, a brand that can draw a lot of readers to a website.

As noted over on WeBreakStuff:

PubSub has rolled out a stack of handy dandy bookmarklets.

If there is a ying and a yang to search engine optimization then many SEO professionals would agree that content is the ying and links are the yang.

Technorati just turned on a new feature: if you are searching Technorati, for, say “Technology” blogs you get a choice: you can see them all, or you can see the ones that have a lot of “authority” in that space.

The old saying that begins “there’s no love lost” won’t be finished with “between Google and the latest Google protestors.” There is love lost. NoLuv4Google.com is littered with breakup notes to Google after the search company conceded to Chinese censorship demands. The broken-hearted boycott is scheduled for Valentines Day.

Just finalizing preparations for my participation in a terrific conference taking place in Manchester, England, this week, which sees the Angels of The North team reunited again – Philip Young, Chris Rushton, Tom Murphy, Elizabeth Albrycht, Stuart Bruce and me, Neville Hobson.

For the second time in as many months, am thrilled to announce that a new business blog is on the scene; this time it’s the Charter Street blog (“a blog about entrepreneurship, the internet, and the state of the software industry”) from Cerado customer Versai Technology.