This morning I did a sprint triathlon (700 yard swim, 18 mile bike, 4 mile run) called the Tri for Real . On the plus side, I had an actual road bike this year

Posted by Sam Crocker Hi there folks! Today we are going to take a look into Foursquare and, more specifically, we’re going to check out how to use it for events and conferences and uncover some of the answers to the questions that aren’t as easily avilable through the Foursquare site .

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As spotted in the SEW Forums by member sitetruth , Cuil appears to be history. Quoting sitetruth’s post from yesterday: “The employees were told at 11 AM today, and the servers shut down at 4 PM PDT.” Former employees also told TechCrunch that this isn’t temporary and they weren’t paid this week. Click to read the rest of this post..

Here are the columns and news stories for the week of Sept. 13 to 17, as reported by the Search Engine Watch team of experts

If you haven’t tried Chrome recently, you might want to give it a try. PC World recently picked Google Chrome as its top recommended browser

Microsoft adCenter is readying some new features for PPC managers. Reports in adCenter will begin showing new information on conversion rates, revenue from conversions, advertising cost, visitor volume, and shopping behavior on the advertiser’s web site, a spokeswoman for Microsoft told Internet Retailer . AdCenter will also provide new information about sources of traffic to the advertiser’s web site, and segmentation of traffic by attributes such as age, gender, and geography, Microsoft’s spokeswoman said.

Google is said to be preparing to distribute mobile devices to small businesses around the country allowing customers to check-in to these venues.

Talk about eating your own dogfood! Today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams took questions for an hour on Twitter, about Twitter, replying from his own account. What was he asked? Many questions about how the new Twitter works, from people who don’t yet have it

I missed last week’s recap, so I covered two weeks in this single recap.