by Vera H-C Chan A 2 a.m. visit to the convenience store can mean some impulse buys. Phillip Brunelle decided to shell out for a Massachusetts State lottery ticket while buying a Red Bull. He went home, scratched his Billion Dollar Bonanza ticket, and went right back to claim his $1,000 proceeds. Probably feeling a combined high from his lottery largesse and the energy drink, the 29-year-old wedding photographer decided to blow $20 of his winnings on a Money Mania ticket.

Framing is when you use language to set the agenda. Framing is short for "frame of reference", meaning "a set of ideas, conditions, or assumptions that determine how something will be approached, perceived, or understood". This is a very important concept in marketing, and business in general. By using an appropriate frame of reference, you can manage how people perceive you. Seo Is Spam? For example, "SEO Is Spam" is a frame. It defines the terms of the debate ie.

Through our Powerset division , Bing has access to semantically indexed Wikipedia content to help with reference searches when people are looking for information about a given entity (person, place or thing) such as Albert Einstein or TechCrunch . According to our research, reference search sessions are typically the most time- and query-intensive, averaging more than 9 minutes in length and more than 6 queries per session before someone finds the information they need.

Here's a question that new webmasters and business owners new to search engine optimization might ask. Do you really have to continue doing SEO over and over again every month, week, day? The answer is the proverbial "it depends." Do you want to rank for your keywords or not? I would caution anyone against re-doing the SEO on their website too many times. If you do it right the first time then your on-page SEO should be fine.

Twitter has changed the word " updates " to " tweets " on user profiles. Though the change seems insignificant, it's the first time the famed microblogging site has used the term " tweet " on their site. Don't you think it was about time Twitter started using the term tweet? Tell us . Earlier this month WebProNews featured an article about how Twitter was applying to have "tweet" trademarked .

NPR has announced it has relaunched its website in an effort to make it easier to combine listening and reading, follow breaking news, comment on and share stories and find programming from local NPR stations. The site is now organized to highlight news, arts & life and music. NPR says visitors to the sight will be able to follow news throughout the day, with top stories updated regularly. NPR's news blog will offer discussions of the day's news.

Google announced today that users tracking events on their site using Google Analytics can now define advanced segments to isolate event-related sites. The company points to an example of looking at how visits with events compares to visits overall. "The variety of event related segments that you can create is only limited by the event details you track," says Alden DeSoto of the Google Analytics Team. "So, if you track video interactions,

by Vera H-C Chan The upside: Women may be getting better-looking. The downside: Men, apparently, are not. According to news reports, a University of Helsinki study (abstract here ) looked at 40 years' worth of data for 1,244 women and 997 men, including their high school photographs. This study claims to bolster earlier research by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa that, as The London Times puts it, " evolution is driving women to become ever more beautiful,

LinkedIn has launched new custom company profiles. These let companies and other organizations create rich, multimedia overviews of what they are all about for prospects to view and engage with. The custom company profile displays content that company's can easily tailor and update, and the content dynamically adapts to the viewers, based on their industry, job function, location, and seniority. This is good for targeting.

It's not often that I get to talk about a "first" or in reporters' terminology "a scoop!" Yet, here it is for the first time in print. The world's first Personalized Business Talk Internet Radio Station . What is it? It is the first Internet talk radio station dedicated to business and technology that can be personalized by you and, best of all, it's free.