Im an adCenter Media Specialist, a member of the service team supporting adCenter customers. A team of service specialists, as well as other Microsoft representatives, will be staffing the Bing booth at SES in San Jose in just a few days. This will be my first time attending SES, and Im thrilled to be participating this year! Well be there to answer your questions, from how to get started with adCenter to how to best optimize your adCenter campaigns. In addition,

Hi all, Gregor Bieler here, the new Country Manager for PayPal Germany, Austria and Switzerland. I joined PayPal on July 1st and am very excited to be a part of such a motivated, highly professional and talented team at this incredible company! To me, PayPal is at the heart of global .

eMarketer points to a recent study from return path, which shows that email marketers may be having more trouble getting their emails delivered than they realize. According to the firm, over 20% of mailings in the US and Canada are not reaching their intended inboxes. We're talking about permission-based email marketing here. Return Path says: - Such messages only reached 79.3% of inboxes during the first half of 2009. - 3.

Next week is the Search Engine Strategies San Jose conference, and Google will be there. If you're coming to the conference, we'd love to meet you. Googlers will be speaking in a number of sessions on topics ranging from website architecture to quality score. Also, Nick Fox, Business Product Management Director for Google AdWords, will be giving Wednesday's keynote. Tuesday, August 11th,

Earlier this week, a report from LegitScript.com and KnujOn stated that 89.7% of Bing's ads for online pharamacies were from illegally operating pharmacies. Microsoft's adCenter has responded by saying the report is true, but the number of violations is substantially lower. adCenter uses PharmacyChecker.com to verify pharmacy advertisers. PharmacyChecker.com is a competitor of LegitScript.com.

During a talk with the New York Times this week, David Vladeck, new head of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, mentioned that violation of a consumer's "dignity" could be a factor in privacy related cases. "Now, Mr. Vladeck indicated, the commission would begin considering not just whether companies caused monetary harm, but whether they violated consumers' dignity.

Late last week we launched an updated version of the Google Analytics website. Some keen-eyed observers noticed that we updated our logo as well. This is consistent with a larger Google effort to update logos on all of our consumer and business products. Consumer product logos now generally have the word Google followed by a lower case word in blue. While business products like Google Analytics are in upper case with everything following Google in gray.

Fast-growing local search engine CitySquares has incorporated Facebook Connect . Now, you can use your Facebook account to sign into the site. When you do, you can invite Facebook friends to CitySquares and control which information from Facebook you want visible on the local site (name, hometown, birthday, etc.) The CitySquares teams plans further integration of Facebook Connect in the future.

Last week I discussed common site errors that can inhibit the search engine crawler (aka bot). I pointed out common areas of concern and recommended a few tools to help diagnose such issues on your sites pages. This week, I wanted to introduce a new tool for your collection that will be of great service to you in checking and maintaining your site. The tool, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit from the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) team,

Micropayments have worked for companies like iTunes and even Amazon.com for songs and television episodes. But could they be the solution to the newspaper industrys pending demise? The Financial Times is ready to find out . They currently use a hybrid paid-free model, where users can access up to 20 stories a month for free, but theyre looking to a pay-per-story or possibly subject or time period model.