If 2005 was the year consumer generated audio (e.g. podcasting) took off, yesterday’s launch…

If you do a Google search on SEO myths, you’ll bring in about half a million hits, all with an SEO expert of some form or another diligently listing the optimization misconceptions they run often encounter. They often disagree on certain points, but there are some common threads, which leads us here to a quick compilation of the more agreed upon SEO myths and how they are debunked.

The latest figures from Nielsen//NetRatings and its AdRelevance service show incredible ad revenue growth.

Tadpole Computer Inc., which is known for its Unix-based platforms for military, government and commercial operations, was acquired today by General Dynamics.

Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists, the weekly aggregation of links to posts by a wide range of different bloggers that provides a unique focus on them for further developing conversations.

A Bad Year for Information Security

The world’s largest automaker announced yesterday they would eliminate 25,000 jobs from their rolls, mostly through attrition as a number of employees approach retirement. The move by the once might GM would save $2.5 billion annually according the report presented by GM chief, Rick Wagoner at the annual stockholders’ meeting.

Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry held a rally at the State’s Capitol to show his support for the General Motors Oklahoma City Assembly Plant.

General Motors reported a loss of $1.1 billion, or $1.95 per share for consolidated net income for the first quarter of 2005.

Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch and Willis Group Holdings Chairman and CEO Joe Plumeri announced an agreement relating to Willis’ insurance brokerage practices.

Since General Motors began the GM FastLane Blog in early January, it’s attracted considerable attention from business communicators. That attention has been sparked by who the bloggers are – senior corporate executives, starting with GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz.

Dollar General reported total retail sales for the March five-week period ended April 1, 2005, equaled $756.2 million compared with $672.9 million last year, an increase of 12.4%.

I found a real gem in my inbox from Jeremy Allaire this morning. He just launched BrightCove, a company he’s been working on in secrecy over the past year.

Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz interviewed Michael Wiley from General Motors about the future impact of blogs, RSS feeds, and podcasting.

Today I noticed that I have this little box in my Gmail account saying that I’ve now got 50 Gmail invitations. When I looked yesterday, I still had the link saying I had 3.

General Motors’ Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz, is not the only one blogging The FastLane Blog, GM’s executive blog.

General Electric is reporting an 18% rise in 2004 fourth quarter earnings and is anticipating further growth in 2005.

FTP in general has a long and sad history of security problems. If you need to run an ftp server, you need to keep careful track of vulnerabilites and exploits that may make for a very unhappy day.

Scott Richter, CEO of direct marketing firm OptInRealBing.com, LLC, and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer have reached a settlement. Richter was sued last December, accused of sending misleading spam email messages with fraudulent information. I first reported on this lawsuit earlier this month.

Xinetd is a replacement for inetd, which was the original Unix super-daemon used to start network services on demand. The reason for inetd goes back to days of low memory and poor memory management: you didn’t want to keep a service running in memory if it was infrequently used. One process (inetd) would listen for connections on appropriate ports, and fire off the appropriate service when a request came in.

If you’re doing business on the Internet, one of the most important aspects of your success is your web site. If your web site doesn’t look professional, no matter what product you’re offering your chances of success are minimal.