HTC have just announced their long awaited Android phone known as the ‘HTC Hero’, just after they released details of the new phone a video and press release poppped up on the Adobe website. This video shows Adobe Flash being used on the new Android HTC Hero handset, this is a long awaited feature for [...]

NMA report that Coca Colas VP of global advertising strategy, Jonathan Mildenhall, has admitted to not keeping up with the Social Media but plans to increase its social media exposure. See below for a quote: “Speaking at the international advertising festival Cannes Lions 2009, Mildenhall admitted the multi-national corporation had been slow to embrace UGC [...]

Google have updated their flash indexing tools, with the ability to load external resources. See below for a quote from the Google Blog: “We just added external resource loading to our Flash indexing capabilities. This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file—whether it’s text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc.—we can [...]

As you may or may not know, devout Jews are banned by their rabbis from surfing the internet. Now a group of jews have released a new search engine called Koogle, of which rabbis have allowed Jews to view. See below for a quote from a Reuters article: “The site, at www.koogle.co.il, omits religiously objectionable [...]

MySpace laid off 420 employees in its US offices yesterday with more cuts in its international divisions and other News Corp Fox Interactive Media (Fim) properties expected to come. The cuts, making up about a third of its staff, had been rumoured for a number of weeks and affect all divisions of the company. MySpace [...]

People think about PageRank in lots of different ways. People have compared PageRank to a “random surfer” model in which PageRank is the probability that a random surfer clicking on links lands on a page. Other people think of the web as an link matrix in which the value at position (i,j) indicates the presence [...]

New York Times reports that Microsoft have filed it’s first law suit against 3 men over Click Fraud. Microsoft are seeking atleast atleast $750,000 in damages. The law suit is agianst Eric Lam, Gordon Lam and Melanie Suen, of Vancouver, British Columbia, along with several other corporation names they were believed to have used, and [...]

Facebook officially began registrations of the URLs on Saturday (June 13th), allowing users to associate their profiles with URLs containing the username of their choice in addition to the standard numbers-based URL. Figures from the website show that 500,000 people had registered a vanity URL within 15 minutes of the launch, with this figure rising [...]

A new questionnaire based search engine called ‘Hunch’ launched last night (created by the co-founder of flickr), it has been designed to help you make decisions based on various related questions. Once you answer the questions, you get your result with some more information and also sometimes a sponsored link. Here’s what they had to [...]

Any Beal of Marketing Pilgrim recently spoke at the WordPress RDU event about optimising WordPress Blogs for search engines, he’s posted his presentation up on his website (see below.) SEO for WordPress View more Microsoft Word documents from Andy Beal.