First off, let me explain that I have always been a fan of Yahoo!. I mean, ever since I first heard the Yahoo! Yodel, I was hooked. I know that Yahoo! Search has always had their quirks and they recently have stated that they've not really been a "search destination", ...

Amazon.com has "jumped the gun" so to speak and shut down its affiliate program, the Amazon Associates Program, to associates who live in the State of North Carolina. Amazon.com is taking this unprecedented step of shutting down their affiliate program ahead of what they're calling an "unconstitutional tax collection scheme ...

I have to admit that I really am not a coder or programmer. I'm more of a writer, blogger, search engine optimizer, and shameless self-promoter. As such, I've been a real fan of the TopCoder competition for years now. TopCoder has announced the winners of this year's TopCoder Open. What is ...

As a blogger, online marketer, writer, and a shameless self-promoter, I am always on the hunt for content and ideas for creating online content. I totally agree with whoever coined the phrase, "content is king". I have to admit that sometimes I get writer's block or, as I like to ...

As you might recall, a while back I told you how to write the perfect blog post. Now that you've written the blog post and you posted it on your blog (which, I hope, is using the perfect Wordpress theme, it is very important that you promote your blog post. ...

Is there such a thing as the "perfect blog post"? Probably not. Certainly I've seen great blog posts over the years, and I have even been lucky enough to have more than my share of blog posts that ended up being popular. I have news for you, though: a blog ...

    XING AG has purchased New York-based socialmedian Inc., a leading innovator in the social news industry. socialmedian.com allows you to get the news filtered by your social networks. Socialmedian originally debuted earlier this year grown very rapidly. Socialmedian is a good fit for XING, a ...

The Mashable Open Web Awards is the only multilingual (i.e., in several languages) international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 different categories. This year, Mashable is partnering ...

The Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban has been charged today by the SEC with insider trading. Apparently Mark Cuban dumped his shares in Mamma.com right after he confidentially learned about a stock offering from the CEO of Mamma.com. This was back in 2004. Immediately after I heard about Mark Cuban being ...

Quintura, a company that provides a site search, analytics, and monetization platform for online content publishers, has officially launched their Quintura Site Search for publishers who are based in the United States. Quintura has developed a hosted site search platform that provides an intuitive, visual-based search and navigation for your site ...