by Claudine Zap J.K. Rowling gave one. So did Bill Gates . Even Conan O'Brien got the nod. Successful, rich, witty? Sure, but you're nobody until you've delivered the commencement speech at Harvard . This year, Energy Secretary Steven Chu (a Harvard reject who consoles himself with a Nobel prize) gave it a try. He worried he could not live up to past speakers, but the Secretary presented his credentials to the Class of 2009: "I am a nerd." You can read the full text here .

Hello, Here are the most viewed adCenter API topics on MSDN for May 2009. Microsoft adCenter API Version 5.1 (Please start using Microsoft adCenter API Version 6 instead!).

Posted by randfish It's been a long time since we had a differential diagnosis post here on SEOmoz, but we've been getting lots of comments and emails requesting some mysteries, so here goes: #1 - Who, Exactly, is Awesome, and Why? I agree with the sentiment of the second result, Google is an awesome product, but this ranking is very bizarre given the content and links pointing to this page/site.

I came to Google because I wanted to work on hard problems and have a big impact on the world. Four years later, I'm still constantly awed by how challenging search is. We work on improving the entire search process, including formulating queries, evaluating results, reading and understanding information, and digging deeper with this new information. Every day we work on ways, both big and small, for search to be better, faster, and more effortless.

comScore has just released April 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, which shows that nearly 152 million U.S. Internet users watched 16.8 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 16 percent over March. This means 78.6 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video in April, and the average online video viewer watched 385 minutes of video, or 6.4 hours. According to a press release ,

by Mike Krumboltz President Obama made a highly anticipated visit to the Middle East earlier this week. Folks around the world listened closely to his speeches. In the end, a few words and phrases stood out, either because they were said or because they weren't even alluded to. There were no fist bumps, but there were many interesting moments during Obama's speech in Cairo. The moment that got the most attention, in Search anyway, was Obama's use of " assalaamu alaykum .

As the team roles out the spring update for adCenter and the new version of the API, our adCenter API Live Meetings with the development team will resume on Wednesday, June 3, at 1 PM Pacific time. Webcast sessions are also scheduled at 1 P.M.

At the beginning of the year it looked as if Google was battening down the hatches and withdrawing from its previous flights of fancy â?" no more dirigible mounted servers or cotton-candy machines in the lavatories for them! Yet the release of new tools like the Wonder Wheel and Google Wave suggest the search giant isn't ready to rest on its laurels. Now we have the Google Labs release of Google Squared ,

No matter how far you can go customizing the best (per my opinion) free traffic analyzer , what it really lacks is live traffic reporting . I need this option mainly because I often deal with social media and once one of my or my client's posts hits Digg, Reddit or StumbleUpon front page or is Tweeted by someone with thousands of followers, - when this happens, I want to be one of the first to know (to watch and answer comments, for example). In this case,

Google has released a Firefox add-on called Page Speed . It integrates with another add-on, Firebug , and is aimed at web developers trying to make their pages faster. "Page Speed is a tool we've been using internally to improve the performance of our web pages," Google writes . To use this, once you installed Page Speed and restarted Firefox, expand Firebug and switch to the Page Speed tool tab. Move to your page, then click the Analyze Performance button.