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At EMC's Executive Briefing Center, company executives gave a peek into some of its areas of expertise, such as how it is combating hackers and how it is making its mark in the SOHO storage business.

StumbleUpon announced today that it will be rolling out a new design to make the service more accessible to new users. The biggest drawback has always been the fact that users had to install a toolbar to use the service, but with this new design, the need to do so has been eliminated. read more

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: In Tough Economic Times, Whither Search?; Microsoft Launches SearchPerks; YouTube Insight Now Shows Which Part of Videos are Hottest; and more.

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: The Geometry of SEM -- What's your Angle?; Tin Foil Hat? I Have Mine On; AdWords API Gets Local Database Sync Update; and more.

by Karri Flatla When I started a blog on my website a few months ago I felt overwhelmed by the sudden responsibility to post fresh content often. It was as if the minute I created a section on my website called "Blog" I was inaugurated into a writer's hell where I felt both stumped and compelled to write all at the same time, all of the time. Then I realized that I was missing the point of blogging, which is to keep a lively conversation going (even if it's sometimes only between you and the WordPress Dashboard). And if you're a decent conversationalist, you can get more than decent results. For example, a few months ago I blogged a little ditty about my decision to outsource all of my company bookkeeping. The post was exactly 222 words of candid banter about how incredibly silly it was of me to have held on to a task as hideous tedious as bookkeeping for so very long. And how truly valuable it is to my business, and my sanity, to have talent to outsource such tasks to.A journalis

The Liberty Counsel is a non-profit group "dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and the traditional family," as its website proclaims.

Rest assured that I'll be commenting further on this subject, but I wanted to post letting people know that the floodgates are about to open. I'm guessing iPhone bloggers are going to start posting massive amounts of code samples in the coming days. Good times for all... It's just a shame that Apple took so long to open the doors. I feel really bad for the authors who had to change their writing plans and even change the content of their books to accommodate Apple's resistance to lifting the NDA.read more

Microsoft's latest effort to get people to use its search service is SearchPerks, which gives people points for using the search engine that can later be redeemed for prizes.

Marc Andreessen has long been a busy man; he's worked at or invested in Netscape, AOL, Ning, Digg, and Twitter, for starters. Now, Andreessen's interests seem to have turned towards boards of directors, as he joined Facebook's earlier this year and hopped aboard eBay's yesterday evening.read more

A new survey of U.S. consumers conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC) finds that consumers have a much different view of broadband access and telecom policy that is at odds with many telecom policy makers.The majority (94%) of respondents see value in broadband service providers (BSP) that dynamically allocate premium bandwidth for some types of traffic, such as video, VoIP, and gaming.read more