Online Retailers Need Better Optimization

Eighty-one percent of Internet Retailer Magazine's top 100 retailer's Web sites are fully taking advantage of search engine optimization and marketing according to a new study by online marketer Oneupweb.

Microsoft Shows Google Who’s Daddy

Forget search for a minute because Microsoft's consistently third place there. As a parent company, Microsoft websites beat Google sites in both unique audience and time per person, says Nielsen//NetRatings.

PeopleJam Procures Financial Backing

Here’s the news: PeopleJam just raised some funds from AOL Time Warner’s former COO and the current CEO of TiVo.  Here’s the background: PeopleJam is a social network that’s currently in an invitation-only testing mode; membership may or may not, as the homepage suggests, allow you to “take your life to the next level!”

Thirty Something’s Balance New And Old Media

A new study by ABI Research found that a large amount of digital content is consumed by a small but influential group of digital media users, while the average user is looking for new ways to manage content.

Google Disappears Facebook Code Blog

When Google-owned Blogger sends you a Digital Millennium Copyright Act take-down notice, at least they're polite about it and liberally use the word "alleged." But they only ask once, as the person who posted Facebook's source code on his Blogspot blog learned.