Just when we thought the Viacom vs YouTube copyright infringement case was finally behind us , Viacom goes and gets all zombie on us-and raises it from the dead. If you need background on the lawsuit, we have a boatload of information on it , but bottom line is this: Viacom sued Google claiming its popular TV shows were being illegally uploaded to YouTube. Google claimed safe harbor protection. Google won. Viacom is now appealing 'albeit in an unappealing way.

This parody public service announcement is hilarious and at the same time, disturbing. I LOL'd a number of times, and immediately thought "I'll blog this and get lots of page views, tweets, and Facebook shares." I don't know if that means I need to watch it again, or step away from the computer. One of my favorite lines: "What do you know, you don't even have any followers!" Please retweet and like this post, so I can get my next rush.

I think someone at Google might have had a little too much spiked apple cider over Thanksgiving, because rumors are heating up that the search giant just acquired online coupon service Groupon for $2.5 billion! According to VatorNews' Google has just purchased Groupon for $2.5 billion, according to an unnamed insider who spoke with VatorNews. Neither Google nor Groupon could be reached for comment to confirm the report,

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If you recently bought a Google TV device, I hope you kept the receipt! If you're on the fence, then this might convince you that Google's foray into set-top boxes is dead on arrival: Viacom just yanked access to its content. Viacom has joined the ranks of NBC, ABC, Fox, and CBS-all of which have blocked Google TV in some form or another. Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, and Nickelodeon are just a few of the Viacom owned networks that bring up the dreaded "sorry,

Back in August, we reported that Google was testing a change to its algorithm that would see more than the standard two-results per web site-if it could be sure that doing so would match the searcher's intent. Yesterday, the search giant announced a small revision to that rollout-one that I believe offers hope to those with a negative reputation. As before,

My company, Trackur , is fast approaching its 3rd birthday-that makes us practically ancient among social media monitoring tools! To celebrate, we are finally launching a feature that has been requested pretty much since day one: an API! Yes, the Trackur API will free companies from the Trackur dashboard and instead allow them to take our data in either XML or JSON formats and do with it as they please! What are some of the ways the Trackur API can be put to good use?

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It's been over a year since we shared the awesome "Is Social Media a Fad?" video. Well, at yesterday's PubCon keynote panel, they played an updated version of the video. Enjoy! Worthing noting? This video is now 6 months old, so perhaps we need a third version. Any takers?

There's a new search engine kid on the block: blekko blekko is different because it uses what it calls "slashtags" to help the searcher refine their search results. There are two major problems that will prevent blekko from reaching mainstream success. I'll reveal both, after this video intro to blekko: OK, so the two big problems? You just watched one of them. Any search engine that requires a video tutorial is not destined for mainstream success.

Microsoft released it's 2010 end-of-year financials and everything is just tickety-boo ! Revenues are up! Income is up! Growth is up! Even Bing is up! Something that is carefully worded in Microsoft's announcement' Next I'll move on to the Online Services Division, which grew 8%. The Online advertising component of the division grew 13%, primarily driven by our search business, which again outperformed the market leader. Yesterday,

It turns out the guys at Ontolo had a pretty great launch of the next version of their Link Building Toolset . And, as is the case with bringing any new product to the market-that does things very differently than anyone else-it sounds like they've been hard at work folding in user feedback. The biggest feature that has just been added is the ability to manage multiple projects within your account.

If you are one of the 273 million people that use Yahoo Mail, we have some good news for you: a faster and more social experience is coming your way! Yahoo! Mail @ Yahoo! Video Want in on the beta? Head here .

It's not a surprise that Google is big. Perhaps the surprise is that the search giant shows no signs of slowing in its growth. Indeed, according to estimates , Google's share of all internet traffic is anywhere from a modest 6.4% to an estimated high of 12%!

Google has never had much luck breaking into the TV business. Its latest foray, Google TV , could end up being a non-starter as well. It's hardly a big secret that TV networks and Google haven't exactly seen eye-to-eye, but the battlefield has typically been within your web browser. In other words, Google's turf. Now that Google is taking the battle to your actual television set, the big networks are fighting back . In fact,

There are some Google reputation management nightmares that require "out of the box" thinking. You know the ones. You've tried to build positive web content. Tried to get your blog on the first page of Google. You've done all that you can, but that negative blog post is still sitting at number 3! Arrrgh! So, here are the five tactics you can try, when desperation sets in: 1. Did they violate their registrar's policies?

We regret to announce that there is no Cup of Joe this week. The world was in danger and Joe slipped into his Superman underpants to save the day. Cup of Joe will return next week.

Weber Shandwick is one of my favorite PR firms because Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross-its Chief Reputation Strategist-is a kindred spirit, when it comes to reputation management. In particular, she's fascinated by the role of the CEO in a company's reputation management efforts and her latest report, Socializing Your CEO , does a great job of analyzing the social media habits of CEOs of the world's largest 50 companies.

There are only two SEO related tools that I'd take the time to promote. Ontolo's link building tools is one , and now I'm adding SEOmoz to that list. Marketing Pilgrim is now an official affiliate of SEOmoz because, well quite honestly, Rand Fishkin is a righteous dude! Heck, you can't help but like everyone at SEOmoz. Oh, and their SEO tools are among the industry's best of breed!