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On the Yahoo Developer Network Blog, Allen Tom discussed the findings of a study conducted regarding the use of Yahoo!'s OpenID service. While the users who participated were enthusiastic with the concept of OpenID, the results weren't great.read more

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Where's The ROI?; Are You Measuring SEO Success Correctly?; Google, Yahoo Trying to Work It Out with the DOJ; and more.

Common sense says that online retailers are in a better position than their brick and mortar counterparts; consumers will be able save time, gas, and possibly the money that would go towards sales taxes by just shopping from home this season. Still, according to a new Hitwise report, the winter is shaping up to be pretty harsh.read more

Google is producing more original content for YouTube following the success of the hit "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Comedy", which was exclusive to the video site. They started running a channel/show called Poptub last month, but it has not received much attention until now.read more

Flock, the social Web browser built on Mozilla Firefox is now out of beta and can be integrated with the MySpace Data Availability platform.Flock 2.0 includes support for Media RSS and offers access to any social network with a Media RSS feed.Social networking users can have access to MySpace, Facebook, Digg, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket and Twitter via Flock's sidebar. Flock's Media Bar feature, at the top of the browser allows users to drag and drop pictures and videos into a MySpace user's profile.read more

by Stoney deGeyter This is part 5 of a 12 part series on keyword research. This series will guide you through four distinct phase of the keyword research process, providing you step by step guidelines to help you gather, sort and organize your keywords into an effective marketing campaign. Four factors of core term prioritization By now you should have several dozen or more core terms documented on your spreadsheet. The question is, what to do with all of these keywords. Before moving on to Phase II you'll first need to prioritize your core terms a bit. In the next phase you'll start digging deeper into each core term to find the relevant search phrases it produces. Instead of taking the shotgun approach, you can go at deliberately, starting the the core terms that provide you with the best opportunities and will have a more immediate impact on your optimization campaign. There are four different factors that you need to analyze in determining the relative importance of each

Given the economy's current condition, most people are cutting out random trips to the local grocery store, never mind overseas vacations. So as non-millionaires should agree, this makes it all the more interesting that Google has released additional Street View photos taken in France.read more

One doesn’t associate photos with Facebook—sure, there are always those embarrassing ones of politician kids popping up—primarily it’s always been a social network. Well, the social network reported last night that it stores more photos than Flickr and Photobucket combined. read more

The Federal Trade Commission has shut down one of the largest global spam operations that promoted prescription drugs and bogus male-enhancement productsThe FTC says it has received more than three million complaints about spam messages connected to the operation known as HerbalKing. It estimates that it may be responsible for sending billions of illegal spam messages.read more

PC Magazine - Opera Software announced Wednesday that it has developed a search engine that allows users to search a Web page's structure as well as its content.