Seems that the dance will never end, but there is a real strong possibility this time that Microsoft and Yahoo will finally work out a deal.  With the dollars Microsoft is putting behind Bing, it may have been enough to get the attention of Yahoo! execs.    The last sticking point is related to an upfront cash payment Yahoo is seeking.  The driving factors driving the deal really boil down to: Microsoft has more money to develop better tools and doesn't really want to be in the ad busin ...

When organizations adopt the Microsoft SharePoint platform, there are often at least a few people in the group who are very excited about the prospect of using the SharePoint wiki feature. They have used Wikipedia, seen what an incredible resource it has become, and they have decided that they love the idea of a harnessing the same "crowdsourcing" forces to capture knowledge within their organizations.   We think this is great, and these people are right to be excited about the po ...

Yes, I own Thriller and Off the Wall (on vinyl!), but this is not about the work of Michael. The impact of his death on the Internet was pretty remarkable. Twitter, music sites, AOL's Instant Messenger, Facebook...you name it, they got rocked by the King of Pop's death. Twitter alone saw a peak of 5k Jackson-related messages per minute! Akamai's Net Usage Index reported traffic to leading news sites in North America was 20% above average.     See more of the details on the LA Times Website ...

I noticed this question today. It illustrates how challenging it can be to attract traffic to your website, sometimes even after getting high rankings:   My website is page 1 on google and yahoo for my chosen keywords, yet I am not getting much traffic, why? I researched the keywords on the google ads keyword tool and they appeared to have high search volumes, yet I am not getting a thousandth of the searches predicted. I would recommend the following: Use Google Webmaster tool ...