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Google's Lively Receives A Death Sentence

So much for the idea of a second Second Life. Lively, launched by Google this July, has already been deemed something of a failure, and ...

Where Twitterers Go to Complain

Kvetch is a site that displays "Kvetches," or funny complaints that are sent to it via Twitter. One "Kvetch" is displayed at a time on ...

Facebook, MySpace Beneficial To Teens

Teens who use social media such as MySpace and Facebook are not just wasting time, they are in fact developing important social and technical skills ...

Attorney General Sues A Washington SEO Firm

An attorney general is suing a Redmond-based e-commerce service providing company, which had faltered on its promises of bringing up Web Traffic for a number ...

Yahoo Powers New T-Mobile Service

Yahoo announced that its oneSearch mobile search engine will be the engine of choice for T-Mobile's new web2goSM service, which is aimed at providing a ...

MySpace Debuts Guns N’ Roses, McCartney Albums

The long delayed new album from what is Guns N' Roses only in name is making its debut on MySpace today.Chinese Democracy can be streamed ...

PC Magazine Says Goodbye To Print

Since PC Magazine is for the tech crowd the announcement that the publication (can’t call it a magazine anymore I guess) would cease printing a ...

Microsoft Promotes Live Search In Canada With Contest

Microsoft has introduced a new contest to Canadian users in an effort to promote its Live Search.The promotion is called "Big Ticket" an online card ...

Don't Write Online Advertising's Obituary Just Yet

Despite the prophecies of some online media moguls, online advertising isn't looking that bad off. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP announced today ...

Holiday Shoppers To Spend More Of Their Budgets Online

More people will continue to choose to buy their gifts online this holiday season, citing convenience, time saving and price as the primary reasons for ...

Google Maps Used To Mark Pirate Attacks

Google's been known to track all sorts of stuff, including search trends, wildfires, and the flu. Now Google Maps and Google Earth are being used ...

Google Makes Improvements to Ad Manager

If you are not familiar with Google Ad Manager, it is a tool that lets web publishers organize their ad booking. It lets you use ...

Microsoft Discusses Updating adCenter Bids

The economy's crashing, the holidays are coming, and businesses are growing ultra-competitive. It's time to revisit online marketing campaigns, then, and Microsoft has released some ...

Company Sues Facebook Over Copyright Infringement

A Columbus, Ohio based technology company is suing Facebook for alleged copyright infringement charging that the social networking site is using technology it developed to ...

New Paid Links Service Sparks More Debate

Quite a storm of debate has erupted over a new service called InLinks - essentially a paid text link service that allegedly makes it hard ...

YouTube in HD - What A Concept

I have not seen any official announcements yet, but YouTube looks to be venturing into High-Definition territory, a place where its competitors are already residing. ...

YouTube Goes Live

YouTube announced its first-ever live programming aimed at user-generated content, which will take place on Saturday, November, 22. YouTube may not be the first to ...

Report: Roughly One-Tenth Of Brand Searches "Hijacked"

Companies put all sorts of time and effort into getting people to search for certain terms. This happens with the expectation that people will then ...

Google Launches Search-Based Keyword Tool

Google has introduced a new keyword tool called Search-based Keyword Tool (beta) that enables paid search advertisers to see what keywords they may be missing ...

Follow Google's Advice for Better AdSense Performance

Google has been providing tips for optimizing AdSense ads to enhance their performance. The company has provided a three-part video series on this subject, which ...

LinkedIn Profiles Now Presentable In 41 Languages

There's nothing like a global recession to expand one's perspectives, and now more than ever, connection-seekers can be counted on to appreciate potential contacts whether ...

Key Terms Integral To Yahoo's Open Search Initiative

Yahoo has announced the availability of the "Key Terms" feature for BOSS. For those of you unfamiliar with BOSS, the company describes it as the ...

PC Magazine Abandons Print, Moves Online

Following in the footsteps of other publishers, Ziff Davis said today it will drop the print edition of its popular PCMag and will focus on ...

CitySearch To Increase Mobile And Social Features

Local review site Citysearch has announced an overhaul to its mobile and web sites. Now in beta, Mobile by Citysearch adds enhanced features for mobile ...

Google - P&G Swap Employees To Learn From Each Other

Sometimes you read something about a company or a business that simply gets it more than others. OK, so we know that in most cases ...

Utilizing Match Types Can Save Your SEM Dollars

Google's been offering some great AdWords tips lately. Specifically, they recently discussed the advantages of using the broad match option and the negative keyword option. ...

Google.org Releases Documentary: The Final Inch

Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google has put together a 38-minute film documenting the "historical effort to eradicate polio." The film is called The Final ...

Iran Blocks Millions Of Web Sites

The Iranian government is currently blocking in excess of five million Web sites for hosting content that it deems as unethical and anti-Islamic.During a conference ...

Ballmer Ignores Yang, Rules Out Yahoo Acquisition

Even the harshest critics of Steve Ballmer will have to admit one thing: in regards to not buying Yahoo, he's been consistent for a long ...

TypePad's Blogger Bailout For Laid-Off Journalists

TypePad has introduced a "bailout" program for journalists who have been laid off or expect to be. read more ...

Google Docs Offers New Holiday Templates

Google Docs has received a lot of attention lately, most of which was focused on its miniscule market share. Google would like to address that ...

Gmail Brings Style And Color To Your Account

Google has introduced a slew of new themes and colors to Gmail that allow users to customize the look and feel they want.The Official Gmail ...

eHarmony Settles Lawsuit, Starts Gay Site

eHarmony is releasing a new same-sex matching service starting by the end of March. This service is the product of legal problems the company has ...

Google Wants Your Questions for D.C. Meeting

Google is hosting a three-part series of town hall meetings at the company's Washington D.C. office, starting with one about economic growth and the technology ...

Google Finance Gets Text Ads

Google has released details of its recent trials with new ads on some of its properties.Users in the U.S. may have noticed new text and ...

Blogosphere Lights Up As Jerry Yang Steps Down

If you haven't heard the news from another source, you probably could have guessed it by watching Yahoo's stock price. Shares have risen about 12.6 ...

Amazon Launches New Content Delivery Service

Amazon Web Services has launched a new pay-as-you-go content delivery service, Amazon CloudFront aimed at making content delivery more efficient for developers and businesses.read more ...

Mark Cuban Proclaims Insider Trading Innocence

After being accused of insider trading by the SEC, Mark Cuban's done the smart thing and stayed fairly quiet so far. Just the same, one ...

Motrin's Ad Causes Online Backfire

Four years ago, an online storm erupted over the best-selling bicycle lock brand in the USA and how anyone could open the lock with a ...

Mark Cuban vs. The SEC

If there is anyone who is representative of all the potential, all the excess and all the celebrity that the Internet economy has offered up ...

Tech Users Struggle With Gadgetry

While technology is well integrated into the lives of many Americans, close to half (48%) have to ask for help when it comes to getting ...

Google Takes LIFE Photo Archive Online

Google said today it is partnering with LIFE magazine to make more than 10 million images available online from the magazine's photo archive.One of the ...

How To Create A LinkedIn Company Profile

Back in March, LinkedIn announced the launch of company profiles. The problem was, users couldn't create the profiles themselves, and Mario Sundar, LinkedIn's community evangelist ...

Google Getting Hung Up In Privacy Issues

Google has a significant presence in Europe with large offices in Dublin, Zurich, and London, and smaller centers in Denmark, Russia, and Poland. The giant ...

Online Retail Spending Grows 1 Percent

Online retail spending in October grew by only 1 percent compared to October 2007, representing the lowest monthly growth rate since 2001, according to a ...

DivX Sues Yahoo

We all know that Yahoo's looking to cut costs. Now, according to a new lawsuit filed by DivX, the search company went a little too ...

What Google’s Matt Cutts Sees In 2009

WebProNew's Mike McDonald caught up with Matt Cutts of Google at the Hofbrau House in Las Vegas during PubCon to get his views on a ...

Hulu Ad Revenue To Rival YouTube

Hulu, an online video site featuring only professional content, is on track to surpass YouTube in terms of advertising revenue.read more ...

Forrester Research recently hosted a "Sales Enablement" roundtable, which featured sales and marketing executives from technology companies like Intel, NetApp, Borland, Informatica, Sun, Interwoven, Microchip, ...

Matt Cutts Defends Google Docs

Google Docs has been the subject of some not-great press over the past week or so; a ClickStream study, in particular, suggested that the productivity ...

PurchasePro Founder Gets 9 Years

The founder and CEO of PurchasePro, Charles E. "Junior" Johnson has been sentenced to nine years in prison for stock fraud.The sentence was less that ...

The Internet's Role in Gay Rights Activism

Not unlike President-Elect Barack Obama's campaign for the Presidency, protestors fighting for gay rights are using the Internet as one of their biggest weapons in ...

German Politician Thinks Better Of Blocking Wikipedia

German Left Party politician Lutz Heilmann didn't like some of the claims printed in a Wikipedia article about him. As a result, Heilmann filed an ...

Mark Cuban Accused Of Insider Trading

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters, and HDNet, has been accused of insider trading. The SEC claims that, following a private conversation ...

Google Launches New Version of SketchUp

Google has announced the release of SketchUp 7. SketchUp is software you can use to build 3D models for any number of project types, including ...

Google Getting Freer With Sitelinks

Subdirectories appear to be getting some respect. Although there hasn't been any sort of conclusive announcement, sitelinks - those nice little link collections that appear ...

Dr. Larry Cornett on Universal & Blended Search

One of the most interesting sessions at this upcoming Search Engine Strategies in Chicago is going to be Universal & Blended Search. Dr. Larry Cornett, ...

Google Analytics Gets A Handle On Flash

Flash content has long posed a lot of problems for the search and webmaster communities. Now Google – and more specifically, the newly introduced Google ...

SEO About to Get Turned On Its Ear?

At PubCon, Bruce Clay, Inc. President Bruce Clay presented at a session entitled "Top-Shelf Organic SEO" in which he discussed the approaching future of SEO ...

On-Demand XML Sitemaps for Custom Search

Google has come up with another nice webmaster tool.read more ...

Update Your Status Acroos Dozens of Social Media Sites

Once you start "living" in more than one social media space, the idea of updating your status across multiple Web sites gets tedious fast.read more ...

Google Earth Models Getting Better

Google Earth is doing some amazing things as highlighted with their announcement the other day of the Ancient Rome layer (shown in the video below).read ...

Obama Gets Online Video

Well, we know it's important for businesses to be transparent online. This is one of the reasons often cited for running a corporate blog.read more ...

Washington Attorney General Goes After Iffy SEO Firm

The Washington Attorney General's Office is less than happy with a Redmond-based SEO firm. The business and its owner, who have operated through sites including ...

PubCon: Making Social Media Campaigns Effective

If you've decided to conduct a social media campaign (or are already in the middle of one), congratulations - you're more or less on the ...

Why Yahoo News Was Number One on Election Night

You may have heard that Yahoo News was the most popular site on the night of the United States Presidntial Election ten days ago. Now ...

Google Docs And Spreadsheets Still In The Shallow End

Microsoft may be down compared to Google in terms of search - some of the most conservative estimates suggest Google's market share is five times ...

Microsoft Live Search Cashback Paying Off

Microsoft says that its Live Search cashback program, launched in May to attract more users has done well in three key areas.Its cashback program has ...

Facebook Phone Surfaces

3 Mobiles has unveiled the first "Facebook phone," though in all fairness, it is more of a "Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Last.fm, Skype Phone." The ...

Do You Have a Problem with Live Blogging?

Barry Schwartz posted something of a rant at Search Engine Roundtable after an unnamed blogger attacked the site's live blogging coverage of PubCon: read ...

Facebook Gets Rid Of Some Neo-Nazi Groups

Facebook users may be glad to know that the social network is rid of a few neo-Nazi groups this morning. After a protest arose over ...

Microsoft Travels The Silk Road

Microsoft has launched a new project aimed at web publishers and developers, entitled "Project Silk Road," in which the latest step combines a content management ...

PubCon: Think Big for Link Building Through Social Media

Out in Las Vegas at PubCon, Mike McDonald of WebProNews spoke with Eric Enge, who was one of the speakers at the session entitled "Real-World ...

The PubCon Wrap-Up Roundup

Technically, Pubcon is still going on at the time of this writing, but today it's all about networking and the sessions are in the past. ...

LinkedIn Integrates Address Books and Profiles

LinkedIn is often cited as the preferred social network for business professionals. Of course like all opinions, this is not a unanimous position, but I ...

Apple Rumor Mill Working Overtime

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch asks if Apple is building a search engine, pretty much creating rumors and squashing them all within a few paragraphs. The ...

Facebook Postings Land Teachers In Hot Water

Half a dozen teachers in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district face disciplinary action and firings for posting derogatory comments about students on Facebook.Four of the teachers ...

Pubcon: Brett Tabke's 26 Steps To 15k a Day

There's no need to introduce Brett Tabke's '26 Steps To 15k a Day'. The page, that was posted almost seven years ago, has had nearly ...

Pubcon: SEO Strategies Various Companies Have Employed

This session had the various speakers highlighting the SEO/SEM strategy their companies have employed, the challenges they have faced in the field as well as ...

Windows Live Making Big Social Leap

A new version of Windows Live is arriving, and a heavy emphasis has been put on all things social. Certain aspects of the Microsoft property ...

At Least the Virtual Economy Isn't Too Bad Yet

More people might want to start using Second Life, because the economy in that world doesn't seem to be as bad as that in reality. ...

Google Alleviates Privacy Concerns About Flu Tracker

Yesterday Google announced its Flu Trends tool, which tracks outbreaks of the Flu. Of course like with just about everything Google does, there are critics, ...

U.S. Regulators Issue Internet Gambling Rule

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve have issued the final rule to implement the controversial Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).The ...

Unauthorized Content Spread Costs Publishers Dearly

Online publishers might be able to forget about this whole economic crisis thing. A firm called Attributor has identified a potential source of income that, ...

Top 5 Reasons YouTube is a Great Educational Tool

Google may be frequently coming up with different ways to monetize YouTube lately, and the community may be full of silly, or dare I even ...

Google Site Search On-Demand Indexing Triggers Re-Crawling

Google has introduced some new functionality to its Site Search product, which allows customers to search within your own site. The feature that everyone is ...

Relevant Content Boosts Sales For eTailers

When laying out your next email ad campaign, ask yourself if you’re putting the close up front where the opening is for the hard sell, ...

PubCon: Microsoft Live Search Keynote Address

Microsoft's moving forward in more ways than one. Even as it announced a new and more social Windows Live redesign this morning, Satya Nadella, a ...

PubCon: Getting Rid Of Duplicate Content

The issue of duplicate content is something that all webmasters and site owners have to take into consideration and the PubCon session "Getting Rid of ...

PubCon: Aaron Wall Talks Link Buying Without Getting in Trouble

Aaron Wall knows a thing or two about SEO. He's been in this game as long as I can remember. He's the brains behind the ...

Google Friend Connect May Soon Launch

For once, Google looked to be a half-step (or more) behind. Yahoo’s testing a “social” new homepage, Microsoft’s rolling out a “social” Windows Live update, ...

eBay Seller Reaches Feedback Milestone

One eBay seller has reached a milestone by surpassing the one million mark in positive feedback from customers.read more ...

Paid Links Go Underground

For every abolition an underground emerges. Google’s not exactly the law, and bootleggers during Prohibition didn’t exactly offer seminars about avoiding the revenuers. Todd Mailcoat, ...

The PubCon Buzz: Day 3

WebProNews is in full force at Pubcon, this time not only covering the event, but presenting as well.read more ...

AOL Still Reaching Record Numbers

You would think that the growth of broadband usage would take away from AOL's business. That and the fact that they've been closing down services ...

eBay Pledges Not to Sell Inaugural Tickets

eBay is saying "yes you can't" to would be sellers wanting to scalp tickets on the site to President -elect Barack Obama's inauguration on January ...

Net Neutrality A Likely Reality In 2009

Once the election smoke has cleared, Congress appears poised to pass Network Neutrality legislation. With promises from the Obama campaign about upholding neutrality principles, any ...

Find Twitterer Locations on Twellow Maps

Our Twellow development team is cranking out the features lately. Just the other day, we announced the "Twellow Pulse" feature, which allows users to track ...

PubCon: Going Beyond Social Media Buzz

Facebook this, Twitter that . . . you've heard the talk. Social media is on everyone's minds these days. But a session at PubCon titled ...

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