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You may recall earlier in the year, google released Google Ad Planner on an invitation-basis only, not unlike the release of Gmail. Today, the company has announced that Google Ad Planner is available to everyone.read more

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Universal Search: The (War) Elephant in the Room; Build Your SEM Network -- Get LinkedIn; Google's Schmidt Will Not Be Obama's CTO; and more.

We English speakers are truly lucky that so much of the world is willing to accommodate us, learning enough of the language to at least give directions to the nearest bathroom. But there's an amazing amount of written content out there that isn't in any given person's native language, and to help with this issue, Google Reader has gained an auto-translate option.read more

The Bush Administration is working to finalize regulations to enforce a ban on internet gambling despite concerns raised by banks calling the regulations ambiguous, burdensome and unlikely to stop Americans from gambling online.read more

It'll soon be what Andy Williams described as the most wonderful time of the year, and Facebook's doing its best to make the singer's words come true. It seems that the social network has a ways to go, however, at least in terms of generating advertising revenue.read more

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is working on a bill that would make it illegal to sell tickets to President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony.Feinstein is also writing to eBay and Craigslist asking the Web sites not to sell any scalped inauguration tickets.Feinstein's bill would charge those caught selling the tickets with a misdemeanor and a fine. The Senate meets next week for a lame-duck session where the bill could be introduced.read more

The Infrastructure-as-a-Service model of early cloud computing providers has focused on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute and storage capacity. This is an important first step, but for companies to harness the power of the cloud, it should enhance the alignment driven by enterprise architecture, driving down the lead times for delivering IT value to business, from concept to deployment, and through maintenance. An architecture-aware cloud computing infrastructure leads to IT services that are easily configured, deployed, dynamically-scaled, and managed in these virtualized hardware environments, while tied into business processes, data models, security services and the data center's service management, problem resolution, and compliance processes. read more

The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) has partnered with the Ad Council to launch a national multimedia public service advertising campaign (PSA) along with a new social networking Web site geared exclusively toward Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.The new Web site CommunityofVeterans.org, provides information that can help veterans with transitional and readjustment issues, including a searchable database of national and local resources on topics such as jobs, education and health.read more

Vivian Schiller, the head of the New York Times' online division has left her job to become the new President and CEO of NPR (National Public Radio). She replaces Dennis Haarsager, who's been the interim CEO since former CEO Ken Stern left. read more

A study on spam from Berkeley and UCSD came back with some pretty intriguing results. The most publicized one was that 1 in 12.5 million conversions is all it may take for spam to be profitable. Other findings show Hotmail may have the best spam filters, and that it’s likely that spambot operations are not third-party services. read more