Over this past weekend, my wife and I had the pleasure of a brief third visit from a real, honest-to-goodness, "household name" celebrity. This time, it was this celebrity's husband visiting our home. And to think, it all started with a simple Craiglist ad, one that I placed on the ...

There are many different ways to search the internet, regardless if you are looking for videos, pictures, or what have you. Having to go to different searching platforms can be rather time consuming. Thanks to the LeapFish multimedia searching platform, internet users worldwide will be able to enjoy the convenience ...

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 ...

    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 ...

    Business.com, a leading business search engine, web site directory, and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising network, has hired Patricia Neuray as Vice President of Sales. Patricia Neuray is an accomplished sales exec with more than twenty years of success in online sales at big search engines like Yahoo! and ...