Newspaper Ad Revenue Drops By $2.6B In Q1 2009

Yup, that’s a B as in billion. Just when you think the newspaper industry can’t take another hit it gets hit with a haymaker. According to TechCrunch, the Newspaper Association of America reported a 28.28% year over year in Q1.

Social Media’s ROI Discussed At SMX

From the playground to the boardroom, "prove it" is the annoying phrase with which a lot of innovative ideas are met.  However, if you've been tasked with proving the value of social media (to either a boss or to yourself), the contents of an SMX Advanced session should help.

Finding Opportunity In Mobile Paid Search!

In the session "Time To Think Seriously About Mobile Paid Search?," the speakers focused on mobile paid search opportunities and strategies for search marketers. Coverage of SMX Advanced continues at Webproworld Videos. Stay with Webproworld for more updates and videos from the event this week.

Microsoft’s Bing is Here. Let’s Check It Out

Update: As the day has progressed, more people have experimented with Bing, and those who were already experimenting with it have experimented more. Not surprisingly, there have been flaws discovered. More criticism has surfaced. While, Bing is techincally still in preview status, I have to assume they felt it was pretty much ready for prime time. After all, scheduled launch was only two days away anyway.…

Twitter Used For Mass Psychic Experiment

If you’ve ever listened to late night AM radio standard “Coast To Coast AM,” you’ve likely heard Art Bell or George Norry talk about remote viewing—the practice of viewing geographic locations telepathically, once experimented with by the CIA and the KBG. Well, how about some remote tweeting?