On June 17th, 2008 TopRank's CEO Lee Odden will speak at Search Engine Strategies, Toronto on "Twitter, Ultimate Time Waster or Great Tool?".How many followers do you have? How many do you want? Bloggers are dropping like flies and micro-blogging

On June 9th, 2008 TopRank's CEO Lee Odden will present, "Search Engine Optimization for News Content" at the PRSA's Digital Impact Conference in New York.Increasing numbers of journalists are using search on a daily basis to research stories and find

On May 15th, TopRank's CEO Lee Odden will present on a PRSA Teleseminar, "Reputation Management in a Google World".In many cases, the search engine has taken the place of an organization's Web site as the doorway to initial interaction with

Photo by Neha Viswanathan: A small subset of the Global Voices bloggers who met in Budapest. (Apologies in advance for the length of this post. I've decided to subject my readers to this even-longer-than-usual "brain dump" because at least a...

There's a trend in our community to remap other peoples ideas in to our own world. This can be a really good thing.. but sometimes we take it too far. Sometimes we remap their concepts to our own concepts. This

This week's podcast is from Smalltalk Solutions 2008 - Randal Schwartz' keynote address from June 20. He spoke about two things: Why Seaside - why now, and how to promote it Persistence options for Seaside across Smalltalk dialects It was

One f the questions that may seem obvious but I have yet to see asked is about ANT's antlib functionality in Eclipse

Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web I'm not a big fan of the engineering metaphor for my job

Brian 'Young Gun’ Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship.

A 52-year-old man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.

A blast occurred near Lal Masjid in Islamabad on Sunday. At least twelve policemen were killed the blast.

A man tore the head off a controversial Adolf Hitler wax figure at Madame Tussauds' new branch in Berlin on its opening day on Saturday, officials said.

The Congress on Sunday kept up the suspense whether it would clarify by on Monday to the Left parties on the issue of moving forward on the Indo-US nuclear deal as the deadline set by the key outside supporters nears

Several senior Congress leaders, including former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh, were on Sunday arrested at Indore airport when they arrived to meet people affected by communal violence in the city. Later, they were moved to Dewas, police said.

XML Fever Reading the latest issue of CACM today, and really enjoying the new format and content

Talking Business - On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble - NYTimes.com (tags: google startups daycare silconvalley family kids hr) Sun Microsystems and Intel Break Million-Messages-per Second Barrier for Thomson Reuters Market Data System: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Nihita Biswas, the 20-year-old Nepali woman who hit the headlines worldwide last week following the news of her engagement to criminal mastermind Charles Sobhraj, has taken the media plunge. She is now defending him resolutely against the murder sentence he

Kuala Lumpur: Five activists of a Hindu rights group, including one elected to Parliament while in jail, will continue to be in detention under a tough security law for having organised an "illegal" mass rally of ethnic Indians complaining of

New Delhi: In a major technology leap, Indian defence scientists are ready to go ahead with the first full test-flight of its indigenously developed air to air beyond visual range missile, ASTRA.

Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.