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Social Media Rule Breaking
By Roderick Ioerger · December 17, 2007

Conformity often creates a feeling of comfort, but it also starts to generate acceptable social norms that soon become the de facto standard for the way things get done.

The Importance of SEO Copy Writing to High Rankings
By Sally Falkow · December 17, 2007 · 1

In this MSNBC interview the Snr. V.P. of Network Solutions covers what any business needs for page one search rankings.

Amazon’s “Open Infrastructure”
By Robert Scoble · December 17, 2007

Dave Winer: Amazon removes the database scaling wall.

The Year’s Most Overused Metrics
By Rohit Bhargava · December 17, 2007

We all know marketers love metrics. Flashy award winning campaigns are great and celebrity spokespersons are always appealing, but most of the time we try to base judging the success of a campaign on hard and fast metrics. The only problem is, many times the metrics that marketers use to gauge success are wrong, inaccurate, incomplete or just plain useless. There are two main reasons this happens …

Facebook Opens Developer Platform
By Darren Straight · December 14, 2007

Online social network site Facebook has now opened up its developer platform to other social networking sites.

Cutts Clears up TrustRank Misconceptions
By Jaan Kanellis · December 14, 2007

I know many of you have heard of TrustRank before. Some say Yahoo came up with it first or Google has it trademarked. Well this video of MC explaining what TrustRank is should help clear up a lot of misconceptions:

Web Analytics Predictions for the New Year
By Manoj Jasra · December 14, 2007

If you’re looking for Web Analytics predictions for 2008 then I recommend checking out Rich Page’s blog where he posts about his thoughts for what’s to come in 2008.

Videos, Books & Photos on Google Maps
By Philipp Lenssen · December 14, 2007 · 1

The search page of Google Maps now shows location markers. The markers can be in the form of videos from YouTube, books from Google Book search or geo-tagged photos from Panoramio.

Google Allows Ratings, Comments On Maps
By Doug Caverly · December 13, 2007 · 1

Maybe car or restaurant reviews seem a little more useful, but no matter; Google is now allowing people to rate and comment on everything created with its My Maps software.

Google Tests Displays in Sidebar
By Andy Beal · December 13, 2007

It’s always fun whenever someone discovers one of Google’s many experiments with their search interface. 99% of the time, the discovered tests never materialize as a major rollout for Google, but it’s still worth noting.

Yahoo and JetBlue’s Arrangement
By Pat McCarthy · December 13, 2007

The announcement that Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger are partnering with Jet Blue to offer lightweight wifi services on flights is both extremely cool, and kind of sad at the same time for me.

Being that I’m traveling a lot now for work it becomes readily apparent when I’m in the air that it’d be nice to be able to connect to the web in order to get work done and communicate with colleagues, friends, and family.

Kindle DRM Down the Tubes
By Dan Morrill · December 13, 2007

Yet another DRM goes down the tubes, this time it is for the kindle, while the reviews have been mixed, most folks who got their hands on the kindle like it, but as usual wish that it could do more than it was originally designed to do.

New Google Analytics Features Showing Up
By Andy Beal · December 13, 2007

There’s no official announcement from Google, but we’re seeing new features showing-up in Google Analytics.

It appears you’ll be able to compare different data points…

Scroll Feature for AdSense
By Navneet Kaushal · December 13, 2007

Keith Chan reports that Google seems to be trying out a scroll feature for Google AdSense advertisements in its Hong Kong version.

More Features with New Google Toolbar Version
By Manoj Jasra · December 13, 2007

Google has released version 5 of it’s popular toolbar, now with many more additional features. http://toolbar.google.com/T5/intl/en/index.html

Shoppers Prefer the Virtual Hight Street
By Neville Hobson · December 12, 2007

It is estimated Britons will spend more than £66 million online this Christmas buying a third of all their presents, according to news reports.

Google Checkout Extends Free Processing
By Janet Meiners · December 12, 2007

Google Checkout, Google’s online payment system, is extending its free processing until February 1, 2008.

The promotion was going to end on December 31, 2007. If you’re a Google Adwords customer for every dollar you spend on AdWords, you can process $10 of sales with Google Checkout for free. After that you’ll be charged 2.0% plus $0.20 per transaction no matter what credit card is used. There are no monthly, setup, or gateway fees.

SES Round-up
By Thomas McMahon · December 11, 2007

Jolina and Mike had a great time at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago. Not only is it the windy city, but a festive, cold and snowy one too by the sounds of it.

Microsoft Introduces Mobile Ads
By Navneet Kaushal · December 11, 2007

According to Reuters "Microsoft Corp.

PubCon – Microsoft Party Pics
By Lee Odden · December 10, 2007

It was my first Microsoft party last night and it turned out to be a doosy. I went with Rich Ord, Mike McDonald (who won a Zune) and Tiffany Doughty from iEntry (WebProNews).

Pics from PubCon
By Lee Odden · December 10, 2007

The last day of WebmasterWorld’s Pubcon is literally a gathering in a pub. This is the genesis of how Pubcon was started, an informal gathering of members from WebmasterWorld.