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Script Kiddies Hack USA Today Twitter Account
The Script Kiddies, which is the same group that recently hacked the NBC Twitter account, struck again Sunday evening. The hacker group, which hacked the...
Yahoo News Activity Automatically Shares News with Friends
Yahoo News Activity, which was announced Thursday at the Facebook f8 conference, enables Facebook users to effortlessly find news that is important to their friends....
Facebook’s Open Graph Provides Marketers with New Opportunities
At the recent Facebook f8 developer conference, Facebook unveiled two new features: Timeline and Open Graph. Timeline, which is replacing the current profile pages, will...
Crushing Barriers to Launching an SEO Firm — Part 1: Opportunity
Search marketing is an adventure, but never more so than when you decide to kickstart your own firm. Here are some obstacles you’ll hit and...
Open Graph: Facebook Becomes a More Social Network
At Facebook’s f8 developer conference on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Open Graph. Described as a whole new class of apps, Open Graph will...
Bing Search Engine Losing Approximately $462,962 per Hour!
Yesterday, CNN Money released data indicating that Bing and Microsoft Online Services are losing a staggering $1 billion per quarter. This number, which equates to...
Google’s Antitrust Message: Trust Us
On Wednesday afternoon, Google chairman Eric Schmidt defended Google and its business practices before the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee. During the hearing, Schmidt repeatedly told...
Political Advertisements Invade Twitter: A Vote for Revenue
With the cost of the upcoming presidential campaign expected to far exceed $1 billion, yesterday afternoon Twitter decided it was time to throw its hat...
Yelp Hopes to Serve Grilled Google: Antitrust Hearing Today
This afternoon, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The hearing, which is appropriately titled “The Power of...
Google Doodle: Huge Ad Directs Users to Google+
After a three-month invite only field test, Google+ released the social network to open beta yesterday afternoon. Vic Gundotra, Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering,...
Bing Holiday Travel Report: Domestic Travel Prices Expected to Fall
Earlier today, Bing Travel issued its preliminary 2011 holiday travel predictions. The search engine uses a comprehensive dataset that includes future airfares, past airfares, and...
Foursquare Security Concern Addressed: Social Network Provides Privacy Option
On Monday evening, Foursquare, a location-based social network, announced a new privacy option that will allow users to hide home addresses from strangers. When a...
Read, Watch, & Listen: Facebook to Announce New Buttons at f8 Developer Conference
The Facebook f8 developer conference, which is set for Thursday of this week, will focus on the socialization of content. According to inside reports, Facebook...
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The Evolution of Making Page 1 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Who’s smarter: SEOs or the search engines? A look back at how the criteria for making page 1 has changed over the years.
Google Wallet: Live in SanFrancisco?
Google Wallet, which was first announced in May, is expected to launch sometime later today. It is believed that this new mobile payment system is...
Facebook App Economy: The Job Impact of Facebookonomics
A recent study published by the University of Maryland indicates that Facebook and mobile technology have generated at least 182,000 new jobs and $12.19 billion...
Google Antitrust Hearing: Will Google Be Found Evil?
On Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is expected to testify before the Senate Committee’s antitrust panel and argue that Google does not give preference...
Google Propeller: Social News Magazine App Targets Flipboard
Google’s latest project, which company insiders say is dubbed “Propeller,” is a social magazine news app that will target the highly successful Flipboard iPad app....
Facebook Reveals Social Ads Marketing Plan
In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Facebook Ads Product Director Gokul Rajaram revealed how Facebook is planning to increase advertising revenue in the near future....
It Takes Two to Tango — A Romantic View of Conversion
Getting conversions is amazingly like asking someone to dance. Be suave with these tips. You’ll get nowhere if you are tone deaf or have two...
Yahoo! Search Launches New Design and Features
After launching an improved image search last month, Yahoo recently announced a makeover of the search results page. The simple and minimalistic design, which was...
Microsoft Bing Adaptive Search: Is Bing Adapting to the Competitive Landscape?
Microsoft Bing, which according to a recent ComScore report is slowly gaining market share from its competitor Google, has announced its newest feature – Adaptive...
Twitter Analytics: Analyze 100 Million Active Users
With over 100 million active users worldwide, there is little doubt that Twitter is capable of driving large quantities of traffic to all types of...
Facebook Subscribe: Is Facebook Copying the Competition?
Yesterday afternoon, Facebook announced the addition of Facebook Subscribe. This new feature will give users the ability to control what they see in their News...
AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft Form Advertising Partnership
Although Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL compete with each other for advertising dollars, the three technology companies have agreed to start selling some of each other’s...
Does a Groupon Deal Impact Yelp Ratings?
Recently, a study was conducted to determine if a Groupon offer correlates with lower Yelp ratings. The study, which was conducted by three computer scientists...
Google Takes Off: Will They Crash or Will Kayak Sink
Late Tuesday morning, Google announced the addition of their newest search feature, Google Flight Search. Although the search giant began incorporating flight schedules into search...
Social Business Index: Real Time Social Data for Companies
Earlier today the Dachis Group launched the Social Business Index, which measures and ranks companies’ social media presence. The Dachis Group, one of the world’s...
Anti-Gay Millionaire Censored by Google?
Brian Souter, the anti-gay co-founder of Stagecoach Group, is claiming that his website www.BrianSouter.com is being singled out and censored by Google due to his...
Facebook Dominates All Other Websites in Third Quarter
Nielsen recently released its third quarter “State of the Media” report, which uncovers how Internet users interact with the Web and allocate their online time....