Twitter is for Old People?

I heard a story on NPR yesterday where they talked to kids about social networks. The popular opinion (at least among the kids talked to for the piece) was that Facebook was "in" and Twitter was for old people.

Matt Cutts Head Shaving Footage Revealed

Google puts out a lot of useful videos through its Webmaster Central YouTube channel. If you are a regular reader of Webproworld, you have probably seen some of them covered here. They generally offer helpful advice for webmasters that have questions about ranking in Google's search results.

Dreamworks Bans Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz from Twitter

Something about celebrities combined with Twitter is just a magnet for headlines and mass media attention. Perhaps it is because our society has an unhealthy obsession with celebrities, and Twitter (and really just social media in general) is turning the web as we know it into a never-ending "stream" of information.

Flickr Delves Into People-Tagging

Let's admit it: Flickr, which should have beaten Facebook to the punch, fell way behind in terms of letting its users tag people in their photos.  However, Yahoo's photo-sharing site has now caught up, and in a couple of respects, outdone what many regard as its chief rival.

Yahoo Shutting Down Paid Inclusion

Yahoo is discontinuing its paid inclusion service, Search Submit. This was revealed at the iProspect/Range Online Media Client Summit on a panel moderated by Danny Sullivan. Sullivan's Search Engine Land received the following statement from Yahoo: