1). The Geek Love There is a different feeling at Blue Glass conferences and it is hard to describe. “Geek Love” seems to do it best for me.

Yesterday on Yahoo’s search blog they announced the launch of the first series of search features that integrate news and entertainment results in one area. On the new results page topics are split up into vertical tabs, such as: Overview, Videos, Twitter, Stories, etc

He’s done it again. Lee Odden, the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing , has just launched a new Facebook Group called “Marketers with Beards.” And even people without facial hair are begging to become members. Click to read the rest of this post…

A while ago Todd Heim did a great post called “ 8 Villains of Social Media “. It was awesome and funny and very well received by our readers.

Will driving games soon be featuring images of real places and roads courtesy of Google’s Street View? That’s the word from the Kmeme blog, which says that Google will make its imagery available to game developers: A game company will be able to license the entirety of the real world’s roads and all the surrounding *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Even though they have had their new search out for a few weeks now, Twitter’s new real-time search engine is just now starting to get noticed…which the micro-blogging site thinks is great .

When you view a specific listing on Google Maps it may show “Verified Listing” or “Owner-Verified Listing.” A Google Places Help thread asks what is the difference between the two? Some local experts are thinking that Google is simply testing…

*Note from Ann: I did a review of Arkayne quite some time ago. Mark is offering an updated, new look at the plugin* I have been using the Arkayne plugin on my blog for about 6 months now and I have to say that I am a little surprised how it has flown under the radar for so long.

Patrick Altoft spotted a real winner, and at first I thought he had some weird browser extension, but he did not. Google is indeed testing page previews with a magnifying glass

Many businesses have gone down the path of claiming their local business listing, but we have seen two distinct problems. The first is that while the local business listings have been claimed, they are only claimed at Google.  That doesn’t necessarily benefit the overall marketing process on the web, which we will discuss further. The other is that the local business listing has been claimed only at Google and nothing further has been done.  No coupons updated, no customer reviews disputed, no events, no videos, and no photos.  Essentially the local business listing has been claimed, but they are not being used for marketing purposes or to avoid public relation problems