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Products/Brands Atop Blogger's Most Discussed Topics

According to Technorati’s 2009 State of the Blogosphere report, 70% of bloggers talk about products or brands on their blogs, eMarketer reports. And obviously some of these mentions would be prompted by free sample products, etc.—a practice popular enough to draw the notice of the FTC, which now requires disclosure on such review products.

The State Of Paid Review Blogs

Posts for pay, reviews for cash or whatever you want to call them are a part of the blogosphere and have been for quite some time. The amount of attention that it gets is often directly related to the amount of other news that is happening in the space at the time.

The Art Of Making Yourself Look Better Online

There is no hotel on Santorini that doesn't look amazing in the photos on their website. They all show rooms with white washed walls and clear blue exteriors. Glasses of wine on tables overlooking amazing sunsets. Beauty products are the same online, promising supermodel style complexions with no wrinkles in sight. Flickr is full of photos that are "tweaked" in some way to slightly increase their beauty, and the tricks that used to be only in the realm of tabloid photo editors are now available to us all.

Google Pictures Better Product Image Search

Research presented by Google suggests they are on track to improving image search to a level of relevancy on par with their core web search service.

BlackBerry Benefits From Google Mobile Updater

I’m not sure if Google plays favorites, but in the mobile world, it recently hasn’t seemed to do much more than play one-on-one.  Google Mobile Updater (“currently only for BlackBerry users”) is an example of this.

Salesforce Releases Product For Data-Sharing

Separate companies are likely to have some things in common, and this is especially true if they use a single platform.  Now, in the event that they want to talk to each other, Salesforce.com has provided them with a way of doing so.

Product Details Encourage Site Visitors To Stay

The importance of authoritative content on websites becomes even more critical to site publishers during the holiday season.

Amazon's E-Book Reader Widely Ridiculed

I wouldn’t mind keeping over 200 books close at hand, and I’d prefer not to need a large suitcase to do it.  But Amazon’s new e-book reader is nonetheless looking less and less appealing as the analyses roll in.

Live Search Team Improves Product Searches

Facebook Introduces Product Pages

Facebook’s Social Ads program already has some people upset, and at first glance, new product pages just look like another way in which users might be turned into billboards.  But whether this is or isn’t the case, the pages are already catching on.