YouTube , once just the second largest search engine has now snuck up and tapped Yahoo! on the shoulder, sneaking past them in the latest Internet Top Sites report. Maybe, they got a helping hand by their life partner, Google, who knows.

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YouTube OverTakes Yahoo For 3rd Most Visited Site On The Web

I just ran across this most interesting of items.

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MPEG LA Announces H.264 Codec Royalty Free For License Lifetime on Free Internet Video

Grant Crowell interviews Josh Miller of 3PlayMedia, to talk about Congress’ recent passing of two bills that will mandate closed-captioning of television programming over to the Internet. We discuss the questions: Will other “professional” online video programs be next? And, is legislation necessary, or will organizations determine that transcription and captioning of video content has a worthwhile ROI regardless of any mandate

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Should Closed-Captioning Of Web Video Be Mandated By Government?

I come from a background in search.  I’m a search engine guy first, and a video guy second.  It’s just how I’m wired.  Which is why ReelSEO is such a great home for me, because I get to write about both.  Today, there’s some news about search engines that isn’t specific to video, but its

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Yahoo Steals A Chunk Of Google’s Search Engine Market Share?

Can you sue someone for writing an ugly YouTube comment about you?  One woman is about to find out. Her name is Carla Franklin, and she is a former model who holds degrees from Duke and Columbia universities, and she’s filed paperwork to attempt to force Google—which owns YouTube—to reveal the identity of the offending

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Columbia Business School Grad Files Lawsuit Over YouTube Comment

Rumors have been swirling for ages that Google is secretly building their own social networking service.  Even before that Tweet from Digg’s Kevin Rose got tongues wagging, many industry insiders had long suspected Google was looking to get more social. And their recent behavior sure points in that direction.  For starters, they own Orkut, Brazil’s

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Why You Should Care About Google’s Rumored Social Networking Service

With the impending implosion of Yahoo’s disappointing Panama project and seeming overnight surrender of search to the big boys of Google and Microsoft it’s time we all started paying a little more attention to Bing and particularly Microsoft adCenter. Just the other day I was talking with some bright minds in the search space and when we got to the topic of Bing the lights were on but no one was home. Which got me think about how since its launch most of us have largely ignored the MSN/ Bing advertising platform , as illustrated by the small number of advertisers on Bing compared against Google’s estimated 1.5 million advertisers, due in large part to the limited consumer reach and previously very poor functionality.

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5 Things You Need to Know to Succeed With Bing

Mobile is becoming more & more a part of an Internet Marketers life as Android is at the heart of that acceleration. Symbian dominates mobile devices worldwide while Blackberry leads here in North America, albeit both are losing share at an accelerated place, perhaps in part because those devices provide relatively poor to no web browsing. Although much better, browsing & search itself on the iPhone has always been secondary to its apps as Steve Jobs stated himself , “search hasn’t happened.” Thus for years at Internet Marketing conferences mobile search was a side session filled with charts & graphs prognosticating a huge market for the mobile web & search, but no real action items as its always for next year

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Why Internet Marketers Should Support Android

With the insane success of Facebook (now 500 million accounts and 140 million uniques a month) and the decent success of Twitter (close to 20 million uniques a month) everyone wants to be the next Mark Zuckerberg .  Now with Google rumors floating the idea of a new social network apply named “Google Me” in the works, we need to ask ourselves do we really want another social network? Social Success Any social network relies on one extremely important element to it’s success.  NUMBERS!  There is no point to be the lone user on a social platform.  In fact the integrity, power, and future use of a network can easily be measured by it’s current accounts and it’s ability to grow. If we rewind to 2  years ago we’d see several versions of similar social networks competing for market share.  Facebook v MySpace or Twitter v Tumblr, etc…  Now we can easily see a natural progression to one single network in each genre.  Facebook and Twitter clearly being the leaders in personal networking and LinkedIn presiding over business social networking.

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Social Networks Pushing Too Hard

I came across another annoyance of Word 2007 caused after I opened a document that contained some errors. It is a really annoying thing to happen and what is horrendous is that it happens without the user’s consent. The Problem This is something you will easily notice only if there are URLs in your document.

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Help: Hyperlinks (URLs) Are not Being Properly Displayed in Word 2007!