Facebook, Google, Ebay Challenge Personal Data Decree

20+ internet companies are in the process of filing a complaint against France’s State Council against a declaration that forces companies such as Google, Facebook, Ebay, and others, to preserve all personal user data for an entire year. The French Association of Internet Community Services, aka ASIC, will file a formal appeal against this mandate….

1 Billion Stumbles Monthly for StumbleUpon

If you’ve never tried StumbleUpon, the time is now. StumbleUpon is a recommendation engine that helps users discover new websites they’d never have known existed. It makes browsing the web easy like channel surfing and StumbleUpon just announced it now processes 1 billion stumbles monthly. StumbleUpon has also just wrapped up a $17 million of…

Facebook Making a Move Into China…?

With a population of over 1.3 billion people, China is a place of great opportunity for many businesses including Facebook. It has been rumored through the grapevine that Facebook is making a move into the incredibly large market. Many companies in the past, including Google, have entered the Chinese market and been unsuccessful. Will Facebook…

Tips to Produce Search Engine Optimization-Friendly Blog Posts

Google’s recently updated “Farmer” algorithm prefers original and unique web content, favoring blogs with innovative posts in its organic search results. Additionally, to produce effective search engine optimization-friendly blogs, ecommerce practitioners should regularly post articles that are keyword-optimized and relevant to the topic at hand. While there are no exact formulas for blogs to rank…

Live Facebook Event With Obama & Zuckerberg

U.S. President Barack Obama officially announced on April 4, 2011 his intentions to run for re-election in 2012 upcoming elections. This means he need to begin campaigning now and what better way to do that than through social media? Later this month President Barack Obama will visit Facebook Head Quarters and host a live event…

Twitpic Shows 6-Foot Hole in Plane Midflight

A six foot hole tore open in the roof of a Southwest airliner last Friday midflight, terrifying passengers who were on their way to Sacramento, CA from Pheonix, AZ. The pilot quickly made an emergency landing in Yuma, Arizona. No passenger was seriously injured although one flight attendant was slightly hurt. It was reported that…

Stay Away from These SEO and Internet Marketing Experts

Every online business needs an internet marketing expert. Nowadays, there are many companies that claim to be internet marketing experts, when in reality; they don’t know the ins and outs of the business. To help limit and narrow down the choices when selecting the right internet marketing expert to handle your online advertising, here are…