Okay you no doubt have had all sorts of suggestions on things to do for Valentine's Day - buy roses and chocolates and make dinner reservations, but there needs to be a list of things not to do - that can offer some advise to both people in a relationship or not. So here are the Top Ten Digital Things Not To Do On Valentine's Day Click to read the rest of this post.

Happy Valentine's Day! If the Google Doodle looks familiar, it was done by artist Robert Indiana who did the popular Love painting. The Doodle is another international one - appear in Google sites for various languages and countries. Keep coming back to the site as we will be exploring how Valentine's Day impacts search and online marketing.

The BBC reported that Google tracks people's searches for disease information and is mapping them to find trends. While this may work as a way to gather insights in to where diseases are occurring, there is a big question on the privacy issues involved. "Type in a search for flu in Google and you will not only find out how sick you are but your data will also be recorded on its flu monitoring service," the BBC reported . Click to read the rest of this post.

This weekend the New York Times Best Seller List includes eBooks for the first time. From the numbers eBooks appear to have outsold all print books in the fiction field and dominated the non-fiction purchases as well. Interestingly, the numbers only include sold books - I am sure if the pirated versions available online would make the numbers even more significant. Click to read the rest of this post.

The New York Times must be in need of cash, or repaying favors for Google's new 'content farm' cleaning from the search results which helps their rankings to rise. The newspaper has broken two stories about shady link building lately. The latest being JC Penney and how it seems to rank at the top for every product they sell. Three months ago,

With the resignation of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, the world may have witnessed a true social revolution. Would the changes have occurred without the help of social media? Sure, but the fact that the world was fully aware of what was happening through these media and protest communications were made easier and quicker definitely helped with the speed with which change occurred.

Google announced its new wedding site that uses various Google products to make the wedding process simpler - to do lists, a personalized website, announcements and save the date cards are some of the services Google offers to help you down the aisle. Just in time for the most romantic day of the year - Valentine's Day - Google has come up with a creative way to use their Docs. Add Google Analytics to the site and you have a whole new meaning to "Here Comes The Bride".

Google announced its 'boutique analytics' for its fashion site - Boutique.com - with Designer Analytics for its design partners and Trend Analytics "that gives curious fashionistas a view into the latest, site-wide fashion trends." "Coinciding with New York Fashion Week, which kicks off today, Boutiques.com introduced two analytical tools - Designer Analytics for designers and Trend Analytics for the consumer. It also unveiled recent boutique additions Michael Kors,

The Wall Street Journal reported Google is trying to acquire Next New Networks. The company website claims they are "the leading provider of original entertainment programming for the Internet. With the two most-viewed videos of 2010," "Founded in 2006, Next New Networks creates its own shows, but today a greater amount of its content comes from teaming up with other web-video creators, distributing shows through YouTube and other partners," the Wall Street Journal noted.

It is the 164th birthday of Thomas Edison and Google has honored him with an animated Doodle featuring a number of his inventions including the electric light bulb, the phonograph and the motion picture camera. Happy Birthday Tom and thanks for all your gifts to mankind.

The Columbia Journalism Review mentioned AOL's Demand/ROI tool and how it is being used to find topics that will generate pageviews and ROI - along with the news that AOL is hiring reporters. Demand/ROI is "used to suggest to writers topics that they should write about, either on a seasonal demand basis, or on a trending topic basis. While journalists aren't restricted to only write about demand topics, they are a good keyword / topic source of data for them," Simon Heseltine,

Not to be outdone by Rupert Murdoch's The Daily, Yahoo is launching Livestand, "a digital newsstand that continually offers new content to consumers, based on their interests," the Yahoo News Center reported . Slated for release in the first half of 2011, and "launching first for tablets, Livestand from Yahoo!

Harry Shum, Microsoft VP of Search Product Development, is presenting a keynote address at the Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining in Hong Kong Friday, where he will discuss the role of personal search history as a factor in search results, the conference site reported.

Sony has gone to court to have Google give them access to information of viewers and the people who have commented on a private YouTube video that shows how to jailbreak their PS3, Slashdot reported . PS3 had been not been fully hacked until recently, but now that there is a full fledged jailbreak available Sony is aggressively prosecuting anyone posting or distributing the hack.

While AOL has a 5 year deal to use Google for their search results, it seems they may be using Microsoft for their content SEO, according to their recently leaked Master Plan. The plan that Business Insider published shows AOL plans to use "SEO Checker" for optimizing their content. SEO Checker is the built in program for optimizing content in Microsoft's Expression Web 4 - their content management system. Click to read the rest of this post.

Google launched their official iPhone Translate App with voice input for 15 languages, their official blog reported . "The new app accepts voice input for 15 languages, and-just like the web app-you can translate a word or phrase into one of more than 50 languages," the blog noted. "You can also listen to your translations spoken out loud in one of 23 different languages." Click to read the rest of this post.

Confession is now not just what you do in church, there is an iPhone app for it! Scroll through the App Store and you can find it - but you do not actually get pennance from your phone. The app created by Little i Apps, LLC can be used on iPhones and iPads. It has an imprimatur -"iIn the Catholic Church an imprimatur is an official declaration by a Church authority that a book or other printed work may be published', Wikipedia noted .

A Columbia University professor has published a report that found New York City prostitutes are using Facebook to find clients, Wired Magaizne reported . Seems the internet are the new streets that are being walked. "According to the survey the use of social media and other technologies has completely altered the trade on the ground, how it is marketed, client screening, income generation and safety. Facebook and other social tools are being use to friend clients,

French-born author Jules Verne is being honored with an international Doodle today. The author of numerous works including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea )1870(, A Journey to the Center of the Earth )1864(, and Around the World in Eighty Days )1873( was born on February 8th, 1828. Verne wrote extensively "about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised,

The five to six days that the Egyptian government closed down the internet and cell phone access cost the country over $90 million dollars, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development )OECD(. "The current shutdown of Internet and communications services for five days will have a pronounced economic impact. It is estimated to have incurred direct costs of at minimum USD 90 million.