Curious about which smartphone to buy? Can’t decide between the iPhone 4S or the Galaxy Nexus(sorry, Blackberry, I’m still a fan, but unfortunately, your phone isn’t “trendy”)? Or do you have your mind set on one, but perhaps some new …

In case you missed it, Facebook is pretty popular. As of June 2008, they’d beat MySpace in terms of total unique visitors worldwide (ballooning to twice as many uniques as MySpace in January 2009)—and even in the US, one of the few Facebook-is-#2 holdouts, Facebook has caught up to MySpace.

Have you had the big talk with your kids? You know, the one where you explain the risks and how one night of craziness can result in them throwing their life away?

Good. How about with your employees?

No, I’m not talking about the importance of abstinence/protection, I’m talking about the importance of ruining your company’s reputation via social media!

New data suggests you should sit down with them right this minute!

Generating a chart for a web page is as simple as passing some variables to Google in an HTTP request.

Google released a chart generator service they are calling the Google Chart API. Usage is quite straightforward: you link to an image in the form of a parameterized URL, e.g. (line break added)

AOL will go head to head with Yahoo Finance as well as competition from Google and Microsoft, with all of these big Internet players looking for valuable financial news readers.

Google Maps and Microsoft Live Search Maps released new ways of looking at the world through their products at the Where 2.0 conference.

Here is a tool that is extremely useful for SEOs to know, it is provided by BruceClay.com and is called the Search Relationship Chart.  (pdf here)

While there has been some worrying, the news is in: If you have any version of Windows XP or Windows 2000, you will be able to get a cheaper upgrade version of Windows Vista.

Yahoo! wasn’t at all happy with Hitwise’s announcement that MySpace.com had surpassed Yahoo! as most-visited site on the Web. In fact, they were downright indignant.

It’s time once again for another installment of everyone’s favorite, our Straight Up Site of Interest.

The search advertising company launched its financial news site last night, with an interesting take on meshing stock charts and news related to a company.

The charts provided by blog search site Technorati now have more data behind them, giving blog searchers an extra treat while searching for posts on their favorite topics.

On his blog, Niall Kennedy shows us how to create custom Technorati charts.

One curious researcher wanted to answer the Gmail antivirus question – who’s providing the service? – and compared Gmail virus detection results to those generated by several antivirus product vendors.

Among the big four Internet search destinations, AOL’s MapQuest leads a field that is getting very crowded with MSN, Google, and Yahoo pushing the mapping envelope.

There are three parties after the acquisition of Maytag – Ripplewood, Chian’s Haier Group, and Whirlpool. Maytag’s board of directors has been backing an offer made by Ripplewood.

Blogging software platforms. Which blogging tool to choose is a dilemma faced my many new bloggers.

Fathom has released its keyword price index for April, revealing that search ad prices rose an average of 11% from the previous month.

Todd Bishop of seattlepi.com wrote a good article explaining that the launch of MSN Search was the official beginning of Microsoft’s bid to topple Google and Yahoo.

According to Kevin Lee, Did-it’s CEO, “The paid search matrix search engine relationship chart is as popular as our free best practices white papers.”

A well-designed chart can be one of the most persuasive elements of your trade show booth display and literature. It illustrates to your customers why your product is the obvious solution to one of their specific needs. It can communicate major benefits or features more clearly than words can.