For the chef-wannabes in all of us, Bing has cooked up something that might help us realize our dream of becoming an Iron Chef master - Bing's Recipe Results. It's a pretty simple update really from Bing that makes it easier to find cooking recipes and other details. Especially useful during times when you're in a rush to cook up something for the family or for a small group together in your homes. What the update does is that when you type in a food related search,

Huh. This looks new. I headed over to investor.google.com to listen to the Google earnings call. Normally the webcast uses Windows Media Player or Real Player, but this time it looks like the earnings call is being hosted on a YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleIR instead. Cool. Go check it out if you want to listen along.

Simply put, Facebook had a terrific 2009. This afternoon, comScore provided some statistics that cover the entire year, and the easiest way to sum them up is by saying that double- or triple-digit growth occurred in an impressive eight out of ten categories. According to comScore , the total number of unique visitors to Facebook increased 105 percent between December of 2008 and December of 2009, hitting 111.8 million before the new decade began. At the same time,

Following on Mark Young's post, 2 Questions for Our Advertisers on the Microsoft Advertising Blog , I thought we'd keep with the theme of providing feedback by posting this reminder of the options available for letting us know what you think. In addition.

Gmail users love to kvetch about how bad ads on the service are. Ostensibly targeted to the content of an e-mail message, these placements are typically off the mark in terms of matching a person's interests, her purchase intent, or even the context of a message she is reading. Well, that may be about to change - if only slightly - as Google modifies its tactics for delivering these messages. From now on,

Google Jan. 20 unveiled some important changes for its mobile search ad and Gmail ad offerings. First, AdWords publishers showing ads on mobile devices with full Web browsers can now target based on Android, Apple iPhone or Palm WebOS devices, and carriers simply by checking a box: This is big news for publishers and advertisers because it provides greater granularity into targeting demographics,

If you run a Facebook Page, you may be very interested in some new features that are rolling out for admins. Eric Eldon at Inside Facebook has discovered that some admins are starting to see impression counts for each post, as well as the number of likes and comments for each impression. Eldon spoke with BrandGlue.com 's Jeff Widman , who is one of the admins that has so far been able to access this information (doing work for a site called Mint.com),

The available number of unallocated Internet addresses using the older IPv4 protocol has dropped below 10 percent, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN says there are just 24 address blocks (each block is about 16-million IP addresses) that it has not yet allocated to the Regional Internet Registries around the globe. "This is the time for the Internet community to act," said Rod Beckstrom,

by Jennifer Laycock HubSpot has released their Third Annual State of the Twittersphere report and for those of us who keep tabs on Twitter from both the marketing and social interaction perspective the results are interesting. HubSpot analyzed the more than 5 million Twitter accounts and 6 million Tweets that have been collected by Twitter Grader . Perhaps the biggest news in the report is the slowdown of Twitter's phenomenal growth over the past few months.

Amazon announced that it is inviting software developers to build and upload "active content" that will be available in the Kindle Store . In other words, look for something like an app store for the Kindle in the future. The company is releasing a new Kindle Development Kit , which gives developers access to APIs, tools, and documentation to build such active content. The kit starts limited beta mode next month,