Google has launched a new videoblog series that will highlight “some of the hottest searches” on Google’s U.S. search engine. It’s called The Google Beat, and the first weekly video was published this morning

Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder and one of the richest men on earth, has filed a patent infringement suit today against several Internet titans, the Wall Street Journal reports. The lawsuit centers on technology developed a decade ago by Interval Research Corp., a technology lab that Allen owned between 1992 and 2000.

In this week’s recap, I kind of give it to Yahoo. They say I am “irresponsible” for saying they are not a search company when their own CEO said that?! Google’s brand search change is out of hand and then…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web….

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: International SEM Goes Beyond Simple Translation: Q&A With Latin3’s Matias Perel Because only a fraction of the world’s population resides here in the United States, the idea of global reach is a tempting one.

Over the past few days, ending on Thursday, certain Gmail users were experiencing a problem with their accounts – specifically, having emails resent multiple times even when the communications in question were deleted. Even though Google says this bug only affected less than 2.5% of users, in a statement by the company at the end of last year it was reported that there were over 176 million people using Gmail

Rohit Khare, founder of Angstro – a news site that catered to business professionals by filtering and displaying information deemed pertinent based on a user’s social graph, announced on the the company’s homepage yesterday that they have been purchased by Google as of yesterday. Also, according to the L.A. Times article , Khare has been hired by Google to help them develop their social networking project – Google Me

Last week at SES San Francisco, Brent Payne, the SEO Director of the Tribune, shared some of his social media link building tips during the News Search Optimization session. Click to read the rest of this post…

Have you been itching to make a dent in your Netflix queue, but spend too much time away from your TV or computer? Well now that will no longer be a problem! Netflix has announced their official application for the iPhone and iTouch. With this app, users can stream their favorite episodes and movies from the Netflix site directly to their device

Army Strong Stories is a program to draw attention to the real life and experience of being in the Army through soldier stories communicated via media socially. Recently  Greg Swan of the Minneapolis Public Relations firm, Weber Shandwick, that is behind the Army Strong Stories campaign contacted me with a compelling opportunity to create my own Army story: “Would you like to go skydiving with the US Army Golden Knights?” Who are the Golden Knights ? In 1959 13 men joined together to form the Strategic Army Corps Sport Parachute Team, to compete in the communist dominated sport of skydiving