Ad Execs Plead Guilty To Promoting Gambling

Here's something you probably didn't even know was illegal in the US, also known as "a free country": interstate transportation of gambling paraphernalia. Does that include poker chips, playing cards, lottery tickets? Probably not, but for one advertising executive, it means he's guilty of telling other people about online gambling.

Yahoo And Politico Partner On Conventions

Yahoo and Politico said today they will partner with The Denver Post and St.Paul Pioneer Press to hold a series of public forums during the Democratic National Convention in Colorado and Republican National Convention in Minnesota.

Vote For Your SXSW SEO Sessions

The initial submissions of session suggestions for the Interactive portion of SXSW that made the first cut have been published. Now it’s up to the voting public to decide which sessions make it next. I’ve heard a bit of feedback from last year’s attendees on the quality of content in the search engine optimization sessions, so it will be nice to see what makes it…

Social Networks’ Popularity As Determined By Search

MySpace is on top in the U.S., Facebook follows, and so on; we're all familiar with the usual social network rankings.  But here's some interesting news: Orkut seems better suited to Iran than America.  And Facebook, while successful here, should consider relocating its headquarters to Turkey.  Or so imply some new stats, anyway.

Hitwise Puts Google Over 70 Percent

It's time for another mini-party at Google and some more mourning at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask; a certain search giant cornered a U.S. market share of over 70 percent in July, according to new Hitwise data.