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It was just two weeks ago when News Corp President Rupert Murdoch said to Sky News Australia that he wanted to take News Corp websites off of Google.  This week, Microsoft has teamed up with News Corp to remove the sites from Google.  And at the same time, Murdoch pay Microsoft to include their results on their search [...]

Over the weekend, James Roppo, vice president of Island Def Jam Records was arrested in Garden City, New York.  His crime: not tweeting.  Yes, as in not using the popular social networking site, Twitter.  Roppo was in Garden City with Canadian teen pop sensation Justin Bieber, who was supposed to perform a free concert for the [...]

A few months ago, I opened a message from someone who watched a video of mine.  The message said: I am intrigued from reading what the people have commented on your videos. Not to mention your charismatic expression…   One teeny-weeny problem here: I am deaf and cannot understand what you have been saying on the videos. I [...]

When you think of watching a video online, you most likely think of YouTube and why wouldn’t you, with hundreds of million of videos to choose from.  In fact, there are so many videos on YouTube, some say that  it would take over 600 years watch all the videos on the site today, and that’s without [...]

Last month, Amazon released its wildly popular e-book reader, the Kindle, to an international audience. But while the online retail giant looks to shore up its market abroad, a stiff challenge could be shaping up at home. That competition is coming from an unexpected source: the smart phones many of us already own. Many Americans are [...]

Blogging on your company website, could help you bring more traffic to your website.  At least that’s what HubSpot is saying after a recent survey.  The company sampled 1,531 HubSpot customers, most were small to mid-sized businesses.  Roughly 52%, the equivalent to 795 businesses, had blogs on their sites, while the remaining 736 did not.  The study shows that companies [...]

A recent report from Weber Shandwick, a New York based public relations firm shows that many of the Fortune 100 companies are still trying to figure out the Twitter-phenomenon taking over the planet.  However, they are going to need to get on board soon, if they want to keep up with the world.  The social-networking site [...]

With the power of the Internet, we are able to connect with just about anyone.  Back in middle school & high school, I had an online pen pal who lived Munich, Germany.  I personally know about 2 words of German, while my pen pal was trying to learn English.  While we were worlds apart, we had [...]

Last month, we told you about Yahoo shutting down Geocities.  Google has not wasted any time to take advantage of their free website hosting site.  With Google Sites, you are able to create a simple based web page for your company, classroom, or even just your family.  They also allow you to embed any pictures, videos or [...]

YouTube has some great video.  You can find video from just about anywhere, from any event, with almost anyone.  And since anyone can shoot a video and post it, news organizations often showcase YouTube videos from events that they personally don’t have footage from.  Of course this played a crucial role earlier this year during the Iran Election, when [...]

Traveling through a foreign country,where you can’t really speak the language,  and looking at street names that you can’t even begin to pronounce can be quite challenging.  I know this from previous experience, traveling all over Europe and South America.  I remember most specifically in Berlin, Germany the streets of Kurfürstendamm & Dimitroffstraße.  Trying to [...]

No matter where you go now a days, someone nearby is either tweeting, while another is taking a new profile picture for their MySpace page, and someone else is shooting a video to post on YouTube.  The world of social media is around us everywhere.  Twitter has been a great source of information for breaking news this year, since you [...]

It’s well-documented by now that Google has lost money on YouTube since acquiring the popular video site some three years ago. Back in July, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Reuters that he was pleased with YouTube’s trajectory and believed the site would become profitable in the near future. Analysts and industry critics were quick to ponder [...]

Word: something that is said. A speechsound or series of speech sounds that symbolizes and communicates a meaning usually without being divisible into smaller units capable of independent use.  That’s the definition of a word according to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary.  The world is full of them.  In fact there are more than 258,000 words in the English [...]

In an interview over the weekend with WebProNews, Matt Cutts, software engineer for Google, had suggested that a site’s speed could determine where it shows up in Google searches.  “We’re starting to think more and more about should speed be a factor in Google’s rankings,” says Cutts.  “A lot of people within Google think that the web [...]

Twitter is climbing the charts as one of everyone’s favorite social media tools.  A new study released some interesting facts about the micro-blogging website, which allows you to send a message to all your followers in 140 characters or less.  Pingdom, a Europe based company, tracked Twitter for three weeks, trying to figure out when and how much [...]

Last month, we told you about NASA’s Tweet-up contest, where 100 lucky Twitter’s would be invited to watch Space Shuttle Atlantis take off.  The shuttle took off successfully at Monday at 2:28 EST, for an 11 day space mission and deliver necessary spare parts to the International Space Station 200 miles above the Earth, while those 100 lucky Twitter [...]

Many of us consult Google Maps when planning a road trip, and the application is always useful for locating a nearby pizza delivery place. Apparently, its utility doesn’t end there. With flu season hitting its seasonal stride and concerns about the H1N1 virus still running rampant, the folks at Google have updated their mapping app [...]

A group known as Control Your Info, invaded nearly 300 Facebook groups this week, demonstrating how users need to pay more attention to their accounts.  Facebook groups are becoming an increasingly large target for hackers, primarily because if a group admin leaves, an option to take over the group is open to anyone.  If someone was to [...]

Are you constantly complaining at how slow your Internet speed is?  You may soon be in luck, because Google announced today, that they are in the early stages of a project in efforts to make the Internet nearly two times faster than it is now.  SPDY (Speedy), is an Internet protocol, which would take over the Internets [...]

Considering the brisk sales of supermarket tabloids and the ever increasing popularity of gossip sites like TMZ.com, it’s evident that Americans are obsessed with body image. To some extent, this could be viewed as a good thing. After all, raising a nation of overweight slobs does little for our self-esteem, let alone our reputation overseas. But [...]

Everyone is gearing up for the holiday season.  While many businesses have said that they will be using social media sites this year to attract online shoppers and offering exclusive discounts to users, consumers are already scoping out discounts through social media networks.  The advertising agency Razorfish released the results of survey on Tuesday, suggesting that online businesses should start [...]