by Mike Krumboltz Hollywood isn't shy about recycling ideas. Over the years the dream weavers from Tinsel Town have adapted books, plays, TV shows, comic books, action figures, newspaper columns, cartoons, and video games into films. But Hollywood's newest idea, and where it comes from, really takes the cake. Publishers Weekly reports that we may soon see the first film to have been inspired by a Facebook status update. Granted,

Twitter search has been hailed as the next big thing, short of becoming the next Google. At the same time it seems that Twitter search and Twitter people search are both broken . Try searching for yourself, that is for your username. I asked my followers to check the results for their usernames and they were mixed, some could find everything, others found only some tweets. Check the screen shot below: Thanks @CanarsieBK , @martinbowling and @neurodexter for the feedback.

Someone who'd like to remain anonymous forwarded the following email from Google, referring to a product called "Google product ads beta": We are pleased to invite you to participate in an exciting beta program with the Google Affiliate Network to show product ads on Google. Product ads are paid product listings that appear when users search for products on Google. Through participation in the Google Affiliate Network product ads beta program,

Another week, another slew of Google Updates. Chew on these new features while you watch the US Open this weekend: Google Flash Indexing - The googlebot will now index external content sources used in SWF files. Google Webmaster Central - Reconsideration requests now come with notifications so you'll know where you're at in the process. Custom Search Automatic Transilteration - You can type in one language but see results in another.

Do you know the difference between anchor text and a call to action? A call to action is any phrase that you use on your website or blog to get a user to do something. You can ask for a sale, a newsletter subscription, or just simply say "click here". That's a call to action. Anchor text is using keywords within a hypertext link to assist the search engines in valuing that link for search marketing purposes. But can it serve as a call to action? The short answer is, yes.

It has been one week since Iran's contested presidential election, and YouTube has been flooded with footage from the streets of Tehran and other cities, documenting the civil unrest that is unfolding there. In the past few days, many Iranians have participated in violent demonstrations , held silent rallies to protest the elections, and grieved for those killed as a result of deadly clashes with the Basij, Iran's auxiliary police force. In the past 36 hours,

I just receievd a message from a colleague that Yahoo has raised their Yahoo Search Submit (Paid Inclusion) price by more than 100%, without first notifying the 'advertiser'. The company was informed that their clicks have been raised in their vertical from less than 50 cents to over $1' after the fact. [ Apparently they were not notified, I'm not sure if others were or not ] Is this happening to you too? I have not read any news on the change,

One morning, Ben Saren was halfway through shaving his head with his electric razor when a schock from the mini appliance left him in need of a barber. Obviously, he wanted the nearest barbershop he could find near his Davis Square home in Somerville, Massachussets, a city just north of Boston. But searching the web at the time turned up fruitless. So, he did what any man in his predicament would dread doing - leaving the house half-hairy,

Your eyes do not deceive you - this is indeed  our 27th installment of RepriseMe, our glimpse into the psyches of the men and women who are the wide lapels on the too-tight polyester disco shirt that is Reprise Media . Speaking of disco shirts, our profile today is on Steve DeAngelis.

Yahoo! talks to publishers about managing multiple sales channels Yahoo!'s Professional Services team is everywhere these days. Last week we blogged about several events Yahoo! would be participating in, an IAB Professional Development class about Managing Multiple Sales Channels being one of them. The class, led by Marc Grabowski, senior director of network sales, and Jeanne Hwang, director of consulting,