Just go to MSN home page anytime you want a good idea for a "link bait" driven article written related to money, as they always seem to have some kind of an article that sparks my interest. I have been reading a lot lately about a new online money management social community that offers tips, advice, and all kinds of tools for you to manage your money online as well as connecting with others. That is the inspiration for todays viral post.

Today is the day of the Beijing 2008 Olympic opening ceremony. Already, Google launched multiple special sites and services for the Olympics. Thanks to everyone providing pointers for this! Google's main Olympics site Google's main Olympics page has different designs depending on the country. The China homepage is more colorful than the US homepage . In the US, you can launch videos, gadgets,

(Please answer in the comments...) [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: What Did You Learn This Week?

Posted by willcritchlow Another business-focussed post from me today (with a little SEO at the end). I was answering a Q&A the other day in a kind of tag-team formation with Rand when I realised that some of my thinking would make a good blog post. The question was about how to grow a new agency and asked whether we thought that contacting site owners and pointing out flaws / suggesting improvements was a good way to win new business.

I talk a lot about crawling and indexing (to the point that we have a dedicated category ), but I think it's worthwhile to back up and describe some of what's going on. The terms crawling and indexing (and indexing's cousin, caching ) are frequently used together, but you should not consider them synonyms. Exact definitions probably differ from person to person,

SES is fast approaching - August 18-22 in San Jose, CA. We'll have quite a few people from Microsoft there, both speaking and at our booth. Please stop by - we'd love to meet you. Monday, August 18 9:45am-11:00am: Universal & Blended Search - Todd Schwartz, Group Product Manager, Live Search 11:15am-12:30pm: Semantic Search: How Will It Change Our Lives? - Scott Prevost, General Manager and Director of Product,

On August 5th YiQi.com launched an OpenSocial developer platform in China based on Apache Shindig, which makes this the first OpenSocial implementation in China based on open source software! The OpenSocial Developer Platform by YiQi.com is b uilt on version 0.7 of the OpenSocial specification , making it easy for existing OpenSocial applications to run out-of-the box and reach all YiQi users. We welcome all app developers to join us as developer partners.

The Florida AG strikes again. This time Sunshine State Attorney General Bill McCollum has darkened the day for MobileFunster, a company that does business as FunMobile and sells mobile content like ringtones and wallpapers. After penalizing ad networks like Azoogle and telecom AT&T Mobility for their alleged roles in enabling deceptive ads for "free" mobile content and other items, the AG's CyberFraud Task Force has gone after its first mobile content provider.

Do the Beijing Olympics have you thinking global? If so, you may be considering whether or not to offer your site content in another language. Google understands and they have offered up three points worthy of consideration when making the decision to go multilingual. Site Structure First,

How do you counter-program against the Olympics? Open two days early, for one thing, as "Pineapple Express" and "Bottle Shock" did. Two films in wide release and a smattering of limited releases will vie for audiences. In the interests of friendly competition, how about seeing which castmate in each film represents the biggest draw? Play along and see which stars reap the Search popularity in movies opening this week... Castmate Buzz Face-Off 1. " Pineapple Express " (R).