by Vera H-C Chan Welcome back to the Age of Aquarius. The 1969 music fair of Woodstock , New York, lasted only three days, but its aura as a musical turning point, a generational uprising, and a countercultural shift has persisted for 40 years. With its ruby anniversary this weekâ?"though no official 2009 festival â?"the event is inducing extended flashbacks and commercial hysteria. Below, just some of the buzz Woodstock still delivers. What's This Love City?

At this morning's keynote at Search Engine Strategies San Jose , "Groundwell" co-author Charlene Li shared these five insights on the future of search and social networks: 1. Social networks will be like air. 2. Your social network will go with you. 3. People must be at the center of your search strategy. Not keywords. 4. Deepen relationships with social technologies. 5. Be ready to give up control. You have no choice.

by Vera H-C Chan As the record-holder for most Playboy covers ever (12), Pamela Anderson has plenty of practice reeling off her likes and dislikes. The latest, according to a hard-hitting Elle UK interview: The "Baywatch" alum abstains from sunblock , used to be a tomboy-nympho in school, likes morning walks with her minister, and enjoys trailer-park living. A trailer park? Uncurl that sneer. Anderson isn't one of those sad,

by Miriam Ellis While Internet Yellow Pages fight for top spots in the SERPs, Local Search Marketers continue their love-hate relationship with Google's omnipotent position in the Local world. Andrew Shotland and Matt McGee tell it like it is. If you're into Local, tune into this! Who's The King Of The IYPs? Andrew Shotland had just released his IYP SEO Rankings Report 2009 in which he lays out for us which local indexes are getting the most consistent high rankings in Google.

Hello everyone, it's Anuj from the communications team here. As many of you know, we're using Twitter to interact with our customers, partners and the greater PayPal community. We've found the conversation lively and the feedback to be quite informative and look forward to continuing it. I wanted to take .

Twitter announced that it intends to add a retweet option to its service as well as the API. Retweeting has basically become a huge part of the Twitter culture, but it is not a function that is readily available on Twitter itself. Users have to actually take the time and to enter the information themselves. Co-founder Biz Stone acknowledges that this can be "cumbersome". Twitter is calling the initiative "project retweet.

I have always been fond of truisms - particularly the one that goes " a rising tide lifts all boats ."  According to the elves at Wikipedia , this concept "is associated with the idea that improvements in the general economy will benefit all participants in that economy."  Search marketing is affected by macro-economic shifts just like most other sectors of the economy, and sometimes we are foresighted enough to anticipate the tide coming in.

Interesting data from Hitwise indicates that content-driven websites get a whole lot more traffic than transactional-based ones. To put a number on it, that would be 73% more. Robin Goad of Hitwise shares the following graph comparing sites in the Shopping and Classifieds, Business and Finance, Travel, Entertainment, Computes and Internet -Social networking and Forums, News and Media, and Lifestyle categories. This is in the UK, mind you. He then shows this other one,

If you advertise in paid search listings you want to rank well, but how do you go about achieving a quality ad campaign? In the session "Ads in a Quality Score World" the panel looked at quality factors and gave tips about increasing the relevancy of your campaigns. Coverage of the SES San Jose conference continues at WebProNews Videos . Stay with WebProNews for more notes and videos from the event this week. Tomaso Pozzi, Product Manager, Core Model & Optimization,

Google announced that Google Affiliate Network publisher payments will now be made through AdSense starting today. Google says this will offer publishers a wider range of payment options. "Publishers can also manage their payment information in new ways and enjoy consolidated payments from Google if they use other Google products," says Product Manager Sheila Parker.