by Claudine Zap Whatever you do, don't call these shiny stretchy legwear " leggings ." The re-invented trend from the 80s has also been re-named. Introducing " sheggings ," A.K.A. shiny leggings. Hold the legwarmers and Jane Fonda sweat band. The leggy look is sweeping the search box: Word of the new fashion jargon sent fashionista queries on "sheggings" shooting up. We're guessing a nation of sparkly-legged trendsetters can't be far behind.

by Mike Krumboltz A shutterbug at TMZ snapped a shot of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on vacation. Ms. Palin's wearing a McCain sun visor, but she's made one interesting alteration. Check out the link and see if you can find it.

Earlier, we looked at Twitter's top trending topics of 2009 . They broke it down into several top ten lists based on various categories. Yfrog , a site that hosts images and videos for people to share on Twitter, has shared its top ten image searches for 2009. In other words, this is a reflection of what people are looking for images of on Twitter. Granted, Yfrog is not the only service that people use to share pictures on Twitter. TwitPic is an obvious one. Still,

As you read this, the inboxes of 14 Facebook developers may be reaching the breaking point. You see, Facebook's decided to launch something it calls the Preferred Developer Consultant Program, and these lucky developers are the first to receive the social network's official endorsements. Kristin Thayer explained on the Facebook Developers blog, "We often hear from brands, celebrities, companies,

Thomas Edison famously remarked that genius was "1% inspiration, 99% perspiration." For bloggers this means that if you put your effort into it, you can create a blog that gathers a following. If you look at a group of bloggers, one with a worldwide following and the rest with small audiences, the former will not necessarily be the best writer, the funniest, the smartest or even the one with the most inside info or useful tips.

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In November 2009, Americans conducted 14.4 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.6 percent search market share, up slightly from 65.4 percent in October. Microsoft Sites grabbed 10.3 percent market share, up 0.4 percentage points versus October.

This is the 8 th post in the SEM Beginner Series, the first of a two-part discussion on measuring the success of your paid search campaigns. The SEM Beginner series of posts is intended for new search engine marketing professionals that are looking for guidance to help identify, monitor and adjust the key performance indicators (KPIs) that determine the success of a PPC campaign. Previous posts in this series discussed click-through rate (CTR) , cost-per-click (CPC) ,

Earlier today, we relayed comScore's figures for the search market during November 2009. Now, Nielsen's statistics covering the same timespan have been made public, and although both companies agree that Bing did well, a lot of the other details differ. Whereas comScore believes Google gained a bit of ground on a month-over-month basis, Nielsen indicated that the search giant lost some - 0.7 percent since October, to be exact, landing it with a share of 65.4 percent. Also,

Wordstream , a must-have keyword management tool for PPC marketers we reviewed earlier , has just launched two really nice free tools: 1. The Free Keyword Niche Finder: returns structured keyword suggestions: First,

Popular online video destination Hulu has added a new default view for the user's queue. The new view groups all videos within the queue by show. In the past, users could only sort everything by show by clicking on the title and information column. "As we've added more content and as users' queues have grown in size, grouping by show as a default was a logical update," says Eugene Wei VP, Product at Hulu. With the new layout, there are two display options.