If you've tuned into any kind of news in the past few weeks, you know Super Bowl 44 is coming this Sunday, when the Indianapolis Colts play the New Orleans Saints . As excitement builds before kickoff, we've seen search spikes by people looking for information on key Colts Peyton Manning and Dwight Freeney , Super Bowl predictions and picks, commercials, and more. For example, people search more for logos of the opposing team!

The battle for the mobile Web is getting more interesting, with Apple filing location-based patents that compete with Google's Latitude location feature for Google Maps and both Google ( AdMob ) and Apple ( Quattro ) bidding for ad networks to monetize the mobile Web. Out of Stanford University's research arm comes Siri,

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What is spam? One could argue that spam is a multi-faceted thing. The word itself has many definitions. For example, it can be defined as a processed spiced ham and pork slathered with a gelatinous glaze food product found in a tin (it's apparently very popular in Hawai'i, don't you know?). However,

Microsoft and Facebook have "enhanced" their partnership with each other. The two companies will soon be providing Facebook users with what Microsoft refers to as a "more complete search experience". They will be providing full access to Bing features in Facebook. In addition, the Bing and Facebook connection will be extended globally. Facebook will be taking over full responsibility for selling its own display ads, although Microsoft will continue to provide search ads.

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released December 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that nearly 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in December, with 33.2 billion videos viewed during the month.

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Over the last few weeks I've started to suffer from Four Square fatigue. After all, Four Square is a lot of work. To get the benefits of Four Square, you need to proactively check in wherever you go. And, while each checkin requires a relatively small amount of work, in the aggregate, it takes real effort to make the most of the Four Square experience.

Brand consulting and advertising firm Hanon McKendry is holding it second annual online Super Bowl ad poll. Viewers of the game will be able to visit superadbowl.com at the end of the first quarter to cast their vote for their favorite commercial. As votes are casts, the results will be compiled immediately and posted so fans will be able to see how their favorites compare to others. "Super Bowl advertising is big entertainment, and everyone wants to voice their opinion,

Last night I was exhausted after being in a meeting at work all day. I had to start studying for an online test I was taking for a class at USF. I was procrastinating and wishing Starbucks delivered. I found myself browsing my Facebook account as people often do when they should be doing more important things. I quickly caught myself clicking on profile after profile. I started off by glancing at one photo of a friend and thinking she looked much better than I remembered.