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UPDATE: It appears that iTunes is back up and running...we'll let you know if anything changes. The iTunes Activation server is currently…
It appears that North Carolina is about to follow New York’s lead and implement a tax collection scheme that will see Amazon.com shut down its Associates affiliate program in the state. Today, all Amazon Associates in NC received this gloomy email from the online retailer:
There is no question that people are putting a lot more of themselves out there online these days with the rise of social media. At this point, it seems that generations will be born into this lifestyle. Who knows what other tools/services will be popular in the future?
The SEO industry has only seen one constant -- change. The well known proverb, "change is the only constant" should be stenciled somewhere near all our desks. Sometimes the change is wanted, and sometimes not. A specific aspect of SEO that has seen a lot of change is blended search. Jill Kocher of Practical-eCommerce wrote about her concern regarding blended search and e-commerce...
A little less than three months ago, Credit Suisse predicted that YouTube's 2009 losses would be in the neighborhood of $470 million. Which is, of course, quite bad. But a new report from RampRate - together with info out of Microsoft - makes it look like Google's video-sharing site is doing somewhat better.
It looks like Facebook isn't going to miss the real-time search boat. Instead, the social network has begun a little experiment, and it seems that it's started with Twitter's ideas on the subject and added some interesting features from there.
