It’s time for SES to return to Chicago for our annual event there. And even before we get to the expert sessions and content you’ve come to know SES for, the big news is: This year you won’t need your winter thermals! Yes, after years of collectively freezing our asses off in snowy December, we’ll bask in the somewhat warmer October climate.

David Ortiz recorded his 100th RBI last night in the 6-1 victory of the Boston Red Sox over the Chicago White Sox. How much did it mean to Ortiz? “As much as it did last year, when I got 99,” he told Gordon Edes of the Red Sox Blog

Hey there gang, it’s time for another ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ . Did ya miss me?

Google was convicted, as was the CEO, in France for defamation of the search suggestions.

One of my favorite features that Microsoft acquired and added to Bing Search was Farecast. Farecast was a flight search engine that offered pricing predictions.

I’ve attended all 4 SMX Advanced Conferences and if someone were to ask me who gave the most memorable presentation that I saw, I would absolutely answer Jay Young.  Google’s stance against paid links was very much a flashpoint of controversy at SMX Advanced 2008 for Jay to get up in front of his peers (w/ Matt Cutts in the room) and forcefully advocated in favor of buying links at a time where it was extremely risky to take such a public stand.  Jay’s name disappeared from my radar until recently where I discovered he was married to one of my social media BFF’s Julie Joyce .  My wife and I passed through Greensboro this summer and hung out on their front porch for a bit and the Jay Young I chatted with that day could not have been more different than my impression of him from his SMX Advanced presentation.  Since Jay isn’t visible online in the same way that Julie is, I thought he’d be a perfect person for an e-interview… 1.

Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, in a video interview with Alan Murray of the Wall Street Journal, Schmidt said Google’s biggest competitive threat is Bing, not Facebook or Apple.

Did you know there is a book named Ad sense: devoted to the interests of buyers of advertising? The book was published in 1901 and it was digitized by the New York Public Library in January of this year. Check…

A week ago Bing announced a new marketing program for them to try to increase search market share. The program is called Bing Rewards and it works a lot like a credit card or airline miles program.

You have been working on a writing project for a while now. You thought about the plot and the characters and outlined every part of the story