User-Generated Content In Mainstream Media?

Content sharing sites such as YouTube have become effective platforms for many aspiring performers to showcase their talents to the world. It seems that now mainstream journalism is beginning to embrace the cultural phenomenon of user-generated content as the next step in the evolution of mainstream media.

Google Adds Video Sharing To Orkut

Ever since Google's widely publicized acquisition of YouTube, video enthusiasts have been chomping at the bit to see how the search giant would integrate the video-sharing site into the framework of its proprietary services. It appears that Google has chosen Orkut for its first YouTube mashup.

Way To Go, SEO!

Contextual advertising has performed well for lots of marketers, but behavorial targeting for ads has started to surpass it in terms of performance. Both of them lost some gains in the percentage of marketers benefiting best from them. Search engine optimization picked up what they lost. Oh, paid search lost a little bit too.

Dolphin Stadium Sacked By Hackers

Do not visit the Dolphin Stadium website. It's been hacked with malicious code placed on the server, as security firm Websense Security Labs discovered.

Search Marketers Declare War On Pork

Pork may be like mother's milk to some, but a very few of them would confuse the two because, in general, people understand metaphors. Lawyers don't. Lawyers don't get metaphors, even if they did really well on the analogies portion of their LSATs. Search marketer Jennifer Laycock suddenly finds herself trying to teach this subtle nuance of language to lawyers, and the entire SEM community…