Popular press release distribution site BusinessWire , which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway, is offering its services for free to companies and organizations who are contributing to the aid of victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Such companies can push out free news releases with offers pertaining to supporting services, information, operations, and events directly related to rescue and recovery efforts.

It's like a disease: I always have plenty of tabs open in my FireFox and sometimes it is getting too difficult to control. I keep tabs open if I want to give something more attention later the same day or if I want not to forget to include the link in the post or discuss it with the friend, etc. I open multiple tabs when doing research or clicking through search engine results. FireFox tabs help me get orgnized, plan the day or quickly scan huge amounts of information.

Google v China Free Speech was originally posted on SEO Manager Mark Pilatowski's piloSEO blog. Mark agreed to allow us to post it on SearchViews and share it with our audience. "Don't be Evil". It is fairly well known that Don't be evil is Google's informal corporate motto. It looks great and gives everyone that sees it a warm and fuzzy feeling that this huge corporation that essentially tracks everything you do online is like a friendly neighbor.

According to Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, "multiple sources have confirmed" that Twitter is readying the launch of a new set of tools to let third-party sites easily integrate with Twitter. He calls this the company's response to Facebook Connect. This wouldn't be the first offering from Twitter that provides functionality similar to Facebook Connect. Early last year, Twitter released a product called " Sign in with Twitter ",

I first met Ian when he spoke at our SearchFest 2008 event.  Though we've communicated frequently via social media, we, more often than not, missed each other at conferences we both attended until Ian , I , Scott Hendison & Ruth Burr had dinner at Pubcon (where Ian taught me that there were as many flavors of salt as there are brands of beer & that archaic video games get new life when played on a High Def TV).

SEOquake , an SEO addon for FireFox (which will soon be also available for Google Chrome), has one great feature that I enjoy immensely: it allows to extract all links from the page (internal and external ones), retrieve some useful information one each of them and export all this data to Excel. This useful option enables you to: (!) Research who your competitor links to (remember to keep your competitors friends close); (!

How long have you thought about starting an online business? What have been the main fears you've overcome to "take the plunge"? Or are you still debating whether or not online marketing is really for you? I've consulted with thousands of people on how to start an online business ; I've learned a lot about the keys to success. One of the most important factors that all successful business owners have is not knowledge. It's not money or advanced education.

Yahoo has made some improvements to its Finance Search interface. Yahoo Finance Search is now including results from the web, and can uncover details on companies and executives, find info on private companies, and help determine what companies are associated with topics, Yahoo says. Every page of Yahoo Finance has a link that says "Finance Search". Users can simply click this to search or browse a list of the day's popular finance searches.

Procter & Gamble said today it would begin piloting an online store this month in an effort to improve brand loyalty and sales. P&G has tapped ecommerce firm PFSweb to manage the online shopping site called the "eStore." P&G said PFSweb will own and operate the eStore and exclusively feature P&G products to consumers in the U.S. The eStore is set to launch this spring, following a pilot of the site with 5,000 consumers that will begin in the coming weeks.

Last week with my post on hCard format I started a good tradition: overviewing microformats in an easy-to-understand way and learning to use them with help of tools. This week I am following up with a detailed look at REL attributes of a link. REL attributes indicate the relationship of the current resource to the target page (which it links to).