SES San Jose 2009 ended last week, but attendees are still talking about the conference and expo. And they're giving the event high marks. You can get a sense of that by looking at the photos in the SESConferenceSeries' photostream on Flickr. For example, hundreds of marketers attended the Extreme Makeover: Live Site Clinic on Thursday, August 14, 2009. It was moderated by Elisabeth Osmeloski, Director of Online Media at Advertures in Search, and speakers included Matt Cutts,

Earlier this summer I gave a presentation in Minneapolis at a ClickZ OMS event on building a social media roadmap with tips on blog marketing and using Twitter. It's all very introductory if you work in the social media space, but if not, serves as a useful introduction for those that need to make a case for social media participation.

Yesterday I drew some ire from Android fans for pointing to John Gruber's post on the opportunity before Android phone makers. Gruber's post pointed to posts from three developers who have sampled Android-based phone and found them unequal to Apple iPhone on mobile computing tasks. I also wondered if the Android open source, multiple phones for multiple tastes approach was doomed because it differed so greatly from Apple's controlled, one great-phone-at-a-time approach.

Netmining is a website optimization company that began in Europe. It was acquired by Innovation Interactive, parent company of 360i and SearchIgnite, which is now launching Netmining's optimization suite in the U.S. But that's not all, they're taking the technology and applying it towards a new behavioral ad network. On a recent call, Innovation Interactive CEO Will Margiloff explained to me that the ad network works by analyzing all traffic that comes to a website.

Ordinarily, we'd be in no rush to tell you that one arm of gigantic corporation's come up with another way for you to throw away your money. But a lot of people love YouTube, and the new YouTube Store is getting some rather positive reactions. To explain: folks often use the comments section of the YouTube Blog as a place to air their personal complaints and make feature requests. When the YouTube Store was announced,

Facebook is gearing up to face off with the government againthis time over privacy concerns in two different venues: the California courts and a Canadian commission. In California, five users are suing Facebook for disclosing their information to third parties for commercial purposes, without the users permission. The plaintiffs are two children under the age of 13 (who, BTW, arent allowed to use the site according to the TOS), a user of the original Facebook,

by Mack Collier One of the great things about social media is how quickly an idea can spread via truly 'social' tools and networks. But even though it's becoming easier every day to share social media content, you still need to create content that people WANT to share. Here's a great example I saw this morning. This post on The Bespoke Wedding Company's blog lists ' 10 Things We Do on a Wedding Day '.

Google Maps has made some updates that give them a more worldly view. First up, some European countries are gaining access to Map Maker . They are: Albania, Belarus, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia. Also getting the update is Malaysia, which, of course is in South Asia. Meanwhile, folks in Taiwan, Switzerland and Portugal now have access to Street View in Google Maps . But that's not the only Street View update.

Ever wondered if your AdWords conversion rates would be better if your ads were just positioned differently? According to Google, it doesn't matter a whole lot where they are positioned. Google Chief Economist Hal Varian and his team claim to have done some research into the subject and has concluded that conversion rates just don't vary much by position. "Since Google ranks ads by bid times ad quality,

Advance Internet, which runs news and information websites in alliance with more than 30 newspapers has entered into an agreement with Microsoft that will allow its sales staff to sell ads on the Microsoft Media Network on the local level. Under the agreement Advance Internet's sales force will offer behavioral targeting and audience extension capabilities to its local advertisers on the Microsoft Media Network . Brian Handly General Manager Pubcenter,