Q&A: Google to dig deeper into users’ lives February 29, 2012 7:29 PM ET By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – If you’re amazed — and maybe even a little alarmed — about how much Google seems to know about you, brace yourself. Beginning Thursday, Google will operate under a streamlined privacy policy that enables [...]

Microsoft eclipses Yahoo in US search for 1st time January 11, 2012 6:24 PM ET By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long sought and expensive goal — its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet’s most lucrative market. Bing and Microsoft’s other websites fielded [...]

comScore Releases February 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings RESTON, VA, March 11, 2011 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in February with 65.4 percent of searches conducted. U.S. Explicit [...]

What to watch for at today’s Apple iPad event By Mark Milian, CNN March 2, 2011 10:40 a.m. EST San Francisco (CNN) — Apple got a huge head start in the touch screen tablet race with its iPad, but in recent months its rivals have begun catching up. Now Apple is hoping to widen its [...]

There is a Joke in Egypt about past leaders losing their Presidency and Mubarak today. Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak meet in the heavens and Nasser says “I resigned the Presidency of Egypt because of the Six Day War.” Sadat says “I lost the Presidency because I was assassinated.” They both ask Mubarak how he lost the [...]

Facebook launches pages redesign By Ben Parr, Mashable February 11, 2011 9:59 a.m. EST | Filed under: Social Media (Mashable) — Facebook has begun rolling out a full redesign of Facebook Pages. The changes will make the Pages look and operate more like user profiles. The new Pages redesign was first seen in December, when [...]

Yellow Pages Ban Proposed In San Francisco The Huffington Post Joanna Zelman 02/ 8/11 05:51 PM The Yellow Pages phone book. It’s been used as packaging material, a dangerous booster seat, fire kindling, and perhaps a box for illicit items if holed-out. But in an increasingly digital age, just how often is the phone book [...]

What the ‘Like’ button means for web traffic By Jolie O’Dell, Mashable September 30, 2010 10:06 a.m. EDT | Filed under: Web Since the button launched, many publishers are reporting large increases in traffic specifically due to this kind of social plugin. Facebook like button is now present on roughly 2 million sites around the [...]

WordCamp Boulder 2010 was my first WordCamp event. As a web designer, SEO, and online strategy consultant, I found the sessions and opportunity to meet others in the industry to share ideas and information very useful. Even though you know much of the material already because you’re in the biz, there are always things you [...]

Some quitting Facebook as privacy concerns escalate By John D. Sutter, CNN May 13, 2010 1:56 p.m. EDT (CNN) — Concerns over Facebook’s new privacy policy and the online social network’s recent efforts to spread its information across the Web have led some of the site’s faithful to delete their accounts — or at least [...]