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.