After seven months since it was announced, Google finally opens its Wikipedia-like web product KNOL to the public. I could understand why it took Google that long to launch Knol, for one it needs to populate the site first with relevant, enticing and interesting articles from its beta authors to make Knol appealing to the [...]

AOLs Platform-A is now offering Goowy’s widget creation and management services as part of its widget distribution offering for advertisers. AOL purchased Goowy back in February 2008, a startup which specialized in simplified widget creation and “webtop” tools for email, calendars and instant messaging. Goowy enables the creation, syndication and measurement of widget-based campaigns as [...]

Rumors are spreading all over the blogosphere that Google and Digg are talking acquisition again as Google will be buying Digg for $200 million and bringing it in under the Google News umbrella, as TechCrunch is reporting (no word if the two parties are holed up in a secret hotel room location outside of MountainView [...]

Google has been known to issue out all kinds of penalties over the years; even Search Engine Journal was penalized a while back (or our Google Toolbar PageRank was). In addition to Google PageRank penalties, there are all kinds of reasons to get penalized by Google which range from building too many obvious spam links [...]

Last month I attended a SEMPO New York networking event that featured an “In-House versus Agency” debate, in which the debaters argued the benefits of each model. After the debate, I was speaking with one of the agency panelists, and we discussed the challenges agencies face differentiating themselves from their competitors given the number of [...]