In today's difficult economic times, maximizing return on assets is a strategic imperative. Information assets are no exception. Service-oriented architecture (SOA), with its focus on agility and reuse, plays a critical role by accelerating development of new high-business-value applications from existing information assets. read more

Read Write Web conducted a survey with some quite interesting results. They asked 20 bloggers and social media consultants (that they claim to know and trust) what kind of money they make with their blogging gigs. The agreement was for RRW not to disclose their names, and for the bloggers themselves to be honest about their earnings. read more

Yahoo shares dropped to their lowest level in five years on Thursday, plummeting 8 percent to $12.65 amid continuing economic chaos.It was Yahoo's lowest level since the summer of 2003, when the company was recovering from the bursting of the internet bubble.read more

JavaScript is one of the most interesting and misunderstood programming languages in common use today. Most developers will go their entire careers without realizing its full potential. It's not often that you get a language that supports the feature set that JavaScript does, while still being as widely deployed. This talk will spotlight some some patterns surrounding JavaScript's most elegant features such as closures, lambdas, object and array literals, object prototypes, private members and dynamic scope resolution -- all without boring you to tears. read more

Microsoft introduced Silverlight as cross-platform, cross-browser, next generation RIA solution. This session will use real world implementations to show you how to build a Silverlight application from start to finish, as well overall strategy why we should or shouldn't use Silverlight. No matter whether you have LAMP, ASP.NET or Java web application, you can take advantage of Silverlight to impress your user with the "Wow" effects. read more

Microsoft has released a tech news aggregator at microsoft.com/web that seemingly has little or nothing to do with Live Search News, though I have to wonder if it might be integrated somehow further down the road. read more

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: My Wife, the Editor; MySpace for Online Learning and Marketing Tools; Search Engines Top Source for Local Info; and more.

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: SEO Link Building Fundamentals; Live Search now Live on Facebook; YouTube, Now with Click-to-Buy; and more.

Ning has followed in the footsteps of other social networking services like MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, and started to integrate with google Code initiative OpenSocial, the platform that "defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites." read more

It was only a matter of time until somebody brought it up again. If Microsoft investors once loved Yahoo at $19 per share, they’re bound to get whiplash staring down the slutty, red-dressed vixen in distress at $12 per share. read more