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WordPress Creators Acquire PollDaddy

Integrating polls into your WordPress blog just got easier. WordPress creators Automattic have acquired poll and survey service PollDaddy.

Bloggers Eat Up Questionable Obama Interview

The right side of the blogosphere is in a snit over a phone interview of Michelle Obama posted by African Press International. Only thing is, the Obama campaign says it’s a complete fabrication.

Technorati Tests New Ad Network

Technorati announced that it has acquired El Segundo, California-based self-serve advertising network AdEngage in an all-stock transaction, the details of which have not been disclosed. This comes about two months after Technorati's acquisition of BlogCritics.

Google Explains Quality Scores

It’s kind of nifty how forthcoming Google has been with the transparency lately. For the longest time, trying to get anything out of them was like trying to squeeze a nickel out of Ed McMahon. The latest explanations of how things work is a blog post describing how quality scores work and why the highest bidder doesn’t always get highest placement in the sponsored results.

Paid Search To Reach $26 Billion

Even with the global economy faltering, spending on paid search advertising still has room to grow and is on track to reach more than $26.9 billion by 2009.New data reveals that the largest search marketers would spend even more if they could, according to a recent study by JupiterResearch, commissioned by search management firm Marin Software.

eBay Causes Stampede With Third Quarter Report

The economy seems to be falling to pieces, and unfortunately for a certain auction company's shareholders, eBay may be performing a similar dive.  The news wasn't good as the company reported its third quarter results this afternoon.

Google Helps Find Missing Links

It’s been said links are the currency of the Web, and an honest-gotten inbound link is like a tip for good work. Locating broken inbound links, then—links attempted but because of an error don’t connect with a page on your site—is like an opportunity to locate missing money.

Facebook Announces Top 25 fbFund Recipients

There's a heck of a lot of bad economic news out there, but for a group of Facebook application developers, it's a great day.  A full 25 teams were named as fbFund recipients, and they'll receive $25,000 each as a result.

MySpace Redefines Karaoke Amusement

Earlier this year, MySpace launched its Karaoke service, but has now upgraded it in a big way including adding video so we can actually watch people humiliate themselves without going to the bar (I've certainly been on both sides of that). I have to wonder if the lack of that alcohol-fueled bar element will take away from some of the enjoyment of watching people sing popular songs, but when I think about the user-generated content of YouTube, something tells me there will be plenty of entertainment value to this.

FTC Shuts Down Globe’s Largest Spam Operation

The Federal Trade Commission has shut down one of the largest global spam operations that promoted prescription drugs and bogus male-enhancement productsThe FTC says it has received more than three million complaints about spam messages connected to the operation known as HerbalKing. It estimates that it may be responsible for sending billions of illegal spam messages.