The Microsoft-Yahoo Merger From A User Point Of View

I’ve stayed out of the Microsoft attempted merger of Yahoo so far. But EVERYONE seems to be talking about it from all sorts of angles. Me? I take the user’s point of view and that’s one I haven’t seen discussed much yet. Will Yahoo moving to Microsoft be a good thing for users? Let’s take a tour.

PPC Rockstars Radio Show

Last Friday we started “taping” for my new weekly Webmasterradio.fm show, PPC Rockstars, which will be “broadcast” live every Monday from 4:00-4:30 PM EST (that’s GMT-5).

Hitwise Stats Paint Twitter As Tiny But Strong

Anecdotal evidence and personal experience are all well and good, especially where popularity contests are concerned.  Hard data works, too, though, and Hitwise's Heather Hopkins has weighed in with stats on how Twitter is doing.

Uloop Pulls A Trump Move

The last time we heard any buzz about unions for online workers, it involved the ill-fated bloggers union. This time, it might not be so unfathomable since it could be a legitimate gripe. A pair of social networking employees allege they were fired for just mentioning the word "union."