Twitter has announced a new link-shortening service embedded into Twitter.com. The new feature will allow users to put in a full URL and have it shortened to 19 total characters (one character shorter than bit.ly) automatically, but will continu…

While internet use in China continues to grow, Mainland China and its surrounding areas (specifically Taiwan and Hong Kong – collectively known as Greater China) have been slow to pick up social networking. Web portals remain the overwhelmin..

Google’s special playable guitar logo in tribute of Les Paul’s birthday was so popular yesterday that Google decided last night to keep the interactive Doodle up on their homepage for another day. “Due to popular demand, we’re leaving the Les..

Web marketing can seem overwhelming sometimes, even for professionals, let alone for small business owners just starting out with promoting a new site. There are so many areas and there is so much to learn – and the goal posts are always mov..

Web marketing can seem overwhelming sometimes, even for professionals, let alone for small business owners just starting out with promoting a new site. There are so many areas and there is so much to learn – and the goal posts are always mov..

Increasing popularity for LinkedIn, highly visible brand loyalty to groups that are liked or followed on social networks, and increased reliance on social media to receive product announcements, PR responses, and company information are among the …

Do online images of ex girlfriends cause you “emtional stress”? A new law in Tennessee makes it illegal to display or transmit images that “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress.” The constitutionality of the new law seems to be in qu…

Today on Google.com is a special logo for Les Paul’s 96th birthday. Les Paul needs absolutely no introduction or explanation from me. The logo is unbelievable…

In an apparent move to bolster its own ad sales efforts and provide services to large publishers, Google has reportedly made a $400 million purchase of Admeld, a company that builds technology to help ad sellers maximize the value of their inventory. Admeld has relationships with the Weather…

Last week we ran a poll asking Are Search Results Better With Social Ranking Signals…