by Claudine Zap You gotta love a children's TV show that takes on the very adult-themed series " Mad Men ." But that's exactly what "Sesame Street" says it will be doing . "Mad Men" as Muppets? Minus the martinis? " Sesame Street " officials were quick to add that the parody would dump the boozing, the womanizing, and the smoking of the series about an ad agency in the 1960s. Which leaves, well, not much of a show.

Newspaper websites attracted more than 70.3 million unique visitors in June, reaching 35.9 percent of all Internet users, according to a custom report by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America. News paper website visitors viewed 3.5 billion page views during the month, spending 2.7 billion minutes browsing the sites in more than 597 million sessions.

by Mike Krumboltz Several months ago, President Obama was photographed sans shirt while on vacation. The pictures caused an uproar, leading to tremendous searches on " president obama shirtless " and the double-take-inducing " barack obama hot ." One got the feeling that Mr. Obama wasn't happy about being photographed, but we suspect the same can't be said of Vladimir Putin . The former president and current Prime Minister of Russia has been seen going topless a lot of late.

Posted by jennita SEO as a line item in a project plan sounds preposterous right? Well Ive seen it happen, and needless to say it didnt work out so well. The act of optimizing a website to be search engine friendly is a combination of tasks that are fully integrated throughout the dev lifecycle. Not a single line in a project plan expecting to gather all items related to SEO into one task, to be done by one person. So what does the dev lifecycle look like,

I just got a new MacBook Pro a couple of days ago and  have been adjusting and learning to work on the Mac OS X platform. One of the things I've been missing is Google Chrome. And with the new beta release of Chrome which was just released by Google, the more I'm really hoping that Google Chrome for Mac would be available soon. Anyway, going back to the new Chrome beta, according to Google,

Facebook has just announced some updates to the Open API Stream. Among these are simpler JavaScript methods for publishing, Facebook Pages support, and attribution. A spokesperson for Facebook tells WebProNews: - Developers can now build deep experiences for Page admins to allow them to consume and update their Page stream from applications, such as those on the desktop. - Application names will now appear in the stream for stories published with the Open Stream API.

A lot of activity on Twitter might well consist of bots talking to each other, according to a new report. Sysomos - which last month pointed out that 5 percent of Twitter's users account for 75 percent of the site's activity - has now indicated that many of the most dedicated users aren't human. Alex Cheng and Mark Evans wrote, "We found that 32% of all tweets made by the most active Twitter users were generated by machine bots that posted more than 150 tweets/day.

A few months ago when we announced the Search Options panel, we promised that you would soon see similar functionality across our other search properties. Today we are rolling out Search Options for Google Images . This new feature offers quick access to existing tools, including search by color and image type . Color search will find images that are only in color or only in black and white, or even images that contain a specific color, such as red, pink, or green.

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project conducted in April 2009, the share of online adults who watch videos on video-sharing sites has nearly doubled since 2006. Fully 62 percent of adult internet users have watched video on these sites, up from just 33 percent who reported this back in December 2006. Online video has also become a bigger fixture in everyday life,

Google's Public Policy blog is typically reserved for statements on issues related to privacy or net neutrality, or the company's lobbying efforts - stuff like that. So, imagine my surprise when I checked my feeds today to discover Google's top public policy communications guy had posted about Google's new bid simulator tool . "As part of our continuing effort to give advertisers more transparency about Google's advertising system and how our ad auction works,