DigitalGhost is an odd fellow, in a good way. Always a blast to chat with, and a smart guy who gives me lots of good advice. He recently started blogging again, and that prompted me to ask him from an SEO.

We have all heard about the YouTube and Google saga concerning copyrighted material. To their credit they seem to be doing what they can to prevent infringement. That does not seem to be the case with a Paris based video sharing site called DailyMotion.com.

As it does this time every year, Google has sent out its holiday gifts for top earning AdSense publishers.

Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection – Why Is Netflix Supporting A Penny Stock Touter?

Popular Blog Posts: Philipp Lenssen over at Google Blogoscoped recently wrote me asking for my most popular blog post. In my case it was the story I published about a year ago regarding my hellish consumer run in with PriceRitePhoto when trying to buy my Canon 5D.

WEB 2.0: Google CEO: Take your data and run – Network World One of the things that all internet companies need to do a better job on is in ensuring that our users have portability of data. So it was refreshing to read this morning that Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, was talking up user portability today.

I don’t know if you guys noticed, but Alexa redesigned the site widgets, offering a cleaner, more appealing web 2.0 face. This really had to come. The old widgets were designed in an 1984 trend.

Recent reports of YouTube and Yahoo’s cooperation in providing private user data to third parties has drawn the attention and criticism of bloggers and information journalists alike. The question begins to arise: Just how private is your online life?

Techcrunch – Blog Archive – Facebook Beta Testing Social Bookmarking – Marshall Kirkpatrick has a post out saying that students with Facebook accounts from Berkeley and Stanford have been given access to a new bookingmarking feature on Facebook.

The people behind Flex and Flash think digital distribution of rich content needs an enlightened approach to generating, hosting, and protecting it.

The 2006 elections mark a new era in the way that candidates for various political offices are promoting their platforms to the voting public. Google Video, YouTube, and Google Earth are some of the virtual avenues that today’s candidates are utilizing to reach out to the Internet voter.

I moderated a roundtable on paid search at the Digital Marketing Conference today. I felt it was a really productive discussion.

On October 19 I’ll be moderating a roundtable on paid search at the Canadian Marketing Association’s annual Digital Marketing Conference. (It’s been held at The Guvernment nightclub — why that had to be the venue is an interesting conversation in itself!)

The WebProNews crew hit the Ziff Davis Media Digital Life conference at New York’s Javits Center and cast some digital media from the opening keynote back to the mothership.

He’s a funny storyteller. She’s the reason you want to visit his website. Curt Brandao, otherwise known as Digital Slob, is a syndicated columnist and podcaster focusing on the lighter side of technology. Digital Slob’s spokesmodel is Olga Timakova, who was the number one cause of whiplash at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo.

During the Advertising Week 2006 conference, Microsoft will debut the global launch of its digital advertising platform, which will encompass platforms from the PC to mobile devices to the Xbox gaming system.

Microsoft has launched user-generated video content area Soapbox, in beta, on the MSN Video site (again a bit late bill) .

AOL and Intel launched an on-demand video service for Intel Viiv-based PCs. The joint effort provides AOL Video’s online library of movies, TV shows, music videos, concerts, and sports videos, viewable on large-screen televisions.

Homeowners’, flood, car, health, unemployment, and now iPod insurance? How would like to add identity theft insurance to your plan? With the digital age now comes digital insurance.

Facebook Tuesday added an RSS “news” feed that informs members of differences in their friends’ pages, like new photos added to their pages or groups joined.

ANHEUSER-BUSCH is set to launch a Web-based entertainment platform disguised as a marketing vehicle.