by Michael Krumboltz Early on Tuesday morning, Eunice Kennedy Shriver passed away at the age of 88. She was a sister to a president and two senators; a mother to five including former newscaster and California First Lady Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger; the wife of Robert Sargent Shriver, who  created the Peace Corps ; and a founder and force behind the Special Olympics . The death of Ms. Shriver sparked incredible interest in her life and times, as well as her sister and friend,

There is a lot of discussion going on about Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, and real-time search. This is to be expected since yesterday it was announced that Facebook is acquiring FriendFeed. Hitwise has shared some data regarding FriendFeed's popularity in the UK. It's growing fast, and has increased by 180% over the last 12 months in terms of traffic. It's nowhere near what Facebook or Twitter get,

In the SES session "Search: Where To Next?" the panel discussed what the future holds for the search industry. Coverage of the SES San Jose conference continues at WebProNews Videos . Stay with WebProNews for more notes and videos from the event this week. Carla Borsoi VP, Research & Analytics Ask.com Carla Borsoi, VP, Research & Analytics, Ask.com, spoke about search and user intent.

Here's a conversation I often have with marketers: Josh: Who are your best customers? Marketer: Women with a child under 4. [Or "People with assets of at least $1 million." Or some such.] Josh: No, I really mean "Who are your best customers?" What are their names? Marketer: [No response.] If you're seeking word of mouth, you should know who your best customers are . . . by name. You should be feeding them previews of new products,

Twitter went down again, and a message on their Status page points to another attack: Update (12:17p): We're back up and analyzing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack. Yesterday, Twitter was dealing with malware affecting user accounts. And of course, last week's DoS attacks exposed just how vulnerable Twitter is.

Google is working on an update called Caffeine , which will increase the speed at which it indexes content. This could be a step toward Google's incarnation of real-time search. Facebook has just started rolling out its own real-time search feature , much like Twitter's, which has been around for some time. Facebook has also bought FriendFeed , which already has a good real-time search feature that searches content across many social sites, based on what its users share.

Brian Fetherstonhaugh, the chairman and CEO of OgilvyOne Worldwide, gave a presentation at SES San Jose today titled "The Adaptive CMO: A New Paradigm for Digital Marketing." In it, Fetherstonhaugh stressed that marketers do indeed need to get online. Coverage of the SES San Jose conference continues at WebProNews Videos . Stay with WebProNews for more notes and videos from the event this week. Fetherstonhaugh said, "CMOs need a new platform.

It feels great to be back at SES in San Jose . The usual suspects are here and the conversations are buzzing - one topic that keeps coming up over and over again is the question "Where is Search going?". That question is what ultimately led to me to jump on the Search & The Future track and attend this session. The room was packed and the panelists were great. Eli, Carla and Heather spoke a lot about Social Media and if "SEO is DOA".

Ben Parr over at Mashable dugg up the news (no pun intended) on Delicious founder Joshua Schachter regretting ever selling Delicious to Yahoo! He said: I wish I had not sold it to them. The cash and freedom do not even come close; I would rather work on a big, popular product. With all due respect to Schachter, who by the way now works at Google, even if he never sold Delicious to Yahoo!,

Doug Cutting is leaving his job working on Hadoop at Yahoo! to work on Hadoop at Cloudera, a Silicon Valley Startup. Cutting founded Hadoop, an open source framework designed to break up large sets of data in order to make them more easily manipulated. Yahoo! obviously uses Hadoop, but other companies such as Facebook uses it as well. Many are perceiving the exit as a reaction to the Microsoft-Yahoo! deal, but Cutting told the New York Times that is not so.