Back in February, I interviewed Liz Gray at SES London 2010 . She is a faculty member at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, who also happens to work at Page Zero Media. Click to read the rest of this post.

Facebook goes a step further in the global open web by enabling users in poorer countries to access its platform through a mobile application called 0.Facebook - free of charge. Click to read the rest of this post.

Yahoo said it is purchasing Associated Content, aka the People's Media Companyâ„¢ , in a deal reported by AdAge to be worth over $100 million Click to read the rest of this post.

In a surprise move following a previous fallout , Facebook and Zynga announced they have clinched a "five-year strategic relationship" deal with no strings attached - almost. Click to read the rest of this post.

Twitter is now facing the typical and critical issue of in-house vs external apps development for its platform as the micro-blogging site has now reached a certain level of maturity, research firm Ovum said, warning that "Twitter risks app developer revolt". Click to read the rest of this post.

Google went through the trouble of putting out a quite detailed blog post yesterday to apologize for having collected "in error" Wi-Fi data in Ireland through its Google Street View cars , saying it "failed badly". The search giant added that although it had collected data "samples", it had not used it for any of Google's service offers. Click to read the rest of this post.

Delivering on its intention of removing its content from the open web, News International's The Sun Online last week blocked PR media monitoring service Meltwater and UK news aggregator NewsNow from indexing its articles, using a Robots.txt file, PaidContent.org reported . Click to read the rest of this post.

Carnegie Mellon University researchers demonstrated how Tweets )"Twitter data" as they call them( replicate opinion estimation for two major U.S. indicators, with some correlations "as high as 80%", suggesting that readily available texts from social sites could complement and even replace organic polls in the future. Click to read the rest of this post.

As it celebrates its 5th birthday, YouTube announced on its blog that it is now serving over 2 billion views per day to over 200 countries. It also gave a hint at future developments currently in the pipeline. Click to read the rest of this post.

Online advertising revenues hit a record $5.9 billion in the U.S. in the first quarter, reflecting an uptick in the country's economy as well as the increasing role of online advertising in marketers' campaigns, the Interactive Advertising Bureau ) IAB ( and PricewaterhouseCoopers )PwC( said in a report. Click to read the rest of this post.

Mark Hanson, Labour's new media strategist and former associate editor of LabourHome.org , wangled me an invitation to a formal review of how digital media innovations had changed UK Election 2010. The invitation-only event was hosted by the Personal Democracy Forum )PdF( on the evening of May 13 and held in London at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce )RSA(. Click to read the rest of this post.

Back on May 5, Google unveiled a " spring clean " of its logo and a "metamorphosis" of the look and feel of its search engine results pages. These changes have caused more than one search engine marketer to shake a fist and cry out, "Curse you, new logo!" Click to read the rest of this post.

On Thursday, May 13, I spoke at the International Search Summit in London. If you want to see what attendees thought of the event, conduct a Twitter search for #isslon and read through more than 15 pages of tweets. Click to read the rest of this post.

I'm told that Mercury was in retrograde until May 11. All I know is that was when I spoke at the Social Media Success Summit 2010 along with 24 of the world's most respected social media experts. Click to read the rest of this post.

Just about ten days ago, we reported on the launch of the new Google search results pages )SERPs( . Some positive feedback has emerged, both from the general public and from search professionals, although users seemed mostly infuriated at the outset. So hit or miss ? Click to read the rest of this post.

Research In Motion, the BlackBerry manufacturer, is said to be working on a tablet device set to launch by December this year, according to Boy Genius Report , who cites "multiple" - yet unnamed - sources. Click to read the rest of this post.

Verizon Wireless is teaming up with Google to work on a tablet computer, with the clear aim to rival the AT&T-carried iPad, Verizon CEO, according to a published report. Click to read the rest of this post.

Amid widely spread concerns over social media privacy, YouTube is trying to make the difference and make users feel more comfortable by launching its " Unlisted Videos " category. Click to read the rest of this post.

Yahoo! Search, like the world at large, is bracing it self for the FIFA WorldCup 2010 in South Africa in a few weeks time and has come up with new all-round features to provide specific and real-time information on the competition - a move likely to keep users around the world on its site and increase dwell time significantly. Click to read the rest of this post.

Marketers in the UK and Canada are the first to benefit from the new AdWords broad match modifier feature that allows higher conversion rates with better ROI when using exact and phrase match keywords. Click to read the rest of this post.