Yahoo Brings Flickr To China

Google Loses Lenovo, Microsoft Comes Out Ahead

Today is the Ides of March - the same day that Julius Caesar was betrayed and assassinated so many years ago.  And although it’s not likely to go down in history in quite the same way, another betrayal has taken place - Lenovo has chosen Microsoft’s software (in place of Google’s) as its default search application.

Skype Thinks Twice The Price Is Nice

EBay's Skype may be taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook. The VoIP company released a new product yesterday that seems awfully familiar, at twice the price. The beta version of Skype Prime, part of Skype 3.1 for Windows, a widget that allows Skype users to become online, on-call experts. For example, if you're a business consultant of some kind, you can set up a…

The Marketing Tactic That Gets 5 Stars

Quick: Which online marketing technique, according to Foresee Results, is used by 72 percent of the top Internet retailers and is the most influential factor in purchase for 39% of all buyers? The answer is customer ratings and reviews. So why aren’t you using them on your site?

Ten Ways to Make Your Small SEO Firm Look Big

Nowadays you don’t have to be big to get big clients. After 3 months of starting up (early 2006) our own web content firm (Applied Content), we landed a big deal with a Fortune 500 company (actually in top 30 though!). It’s not that we looked like a giant corporation, but we looked big enough to show that we cared about our business and about…