Last Tuesday, the season premiere of the hit television show "Lost" aired, and not only was it watched by over 12 million people, but it drove record online viewing at ABC.com the next day, with over 580,000 episode starts on the site. That's over 34% more than last season's premiere. ABC shared some details with us. When asked why they think this particular episode of Lost had such an impact on online views compared with other episodes and other shows,

Social media music player TuneWiki has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Motorola Ventures, the strategic investment arm of Motorola. Other new investors of TuneWiki include Intellect Capital Ventures, a venture fund initiative of TeliaSonera, HillsVen Capital, and Novel TMT. TuneWiki's previous venture capital investor, Benchmark Israel, also participated in the round. "Teaming up with a global company like Motorola is very exciting for us," said Rani Cohen,

The CEO of Spanish telecom company Telefonica might soon try to obtain some money from Google and its rivals. Cesar Alierta said today that search engines' popularity creates something of a burden for his organization, and that he'd like Telefonica to share in their profits. As reported by John W. Daly , Alierta told Spanish newspaper El Pais, "Search engines use our network, without paying anything for it." Installation, maintenance,

I don't have to tell you that Facebook can be a tremendous source of web traffic . There's a good chance that most of the people you know are on it, and the ones who aren't may be eventually. The social network is consuming more and more of people's time, and thanks to mobile devices, it is always accessible. If you don't have a Facebook Page, you may be missing out on not only traffic to your site,

Google is know for being highly innovative and keeping on top of the technology train. Android brought the opening of the Google online store . Gmail has an on-going experiment that goes by the name of "Gmail Labs", which you can find hiding in it's parent, " Google Labs ". You can try out various things for size,

(This is a long post and the author accepts no responsibility for any damage caused to your scrolling finger.) The largest search marketing show in Europe is heading back to London 15 - 19 February. And it's jam packed with a mixture of classic sessions, new sessions, top rated speakers, and new talent. As a parent, I know it's never fair to say one of your kids is your favorite. They're all your favorite.

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The most popular video game franchise of all time is heading to Facebook. The end result probably won't boast the lifelike graphics and complicated controls to which longtime fans have become accustomed, but Peter Moore, the president of EA Sports, has promised that some sort of "Madden NFL" tie-in will occur. "You'll see us on Facebook going forward," he said in an interview with Bloomberg . Unfortunately without giving too many more particulars. Still,

This morning, Reprise Media released our 6th annual Search Marketing Scorecard on the Super Bowl , which ranks Super Bowl advertisers based on the level of integration between their television commercials and presence in search and social media â?"measuring how prepared each brand was to capture the demand created by their Super Bowl advertising investment.  The Search Marketing Scorecard is the longest-running study of its kind.

by Mike Krumboltz There are troublemakers and then there are troublemakers. The first group rolls through stop signs. The second type spends their spare time planning to overthrow the government. Should you fall into the second category and happen to live in South Carolina, you'll find you'll have to register with the very government you plan to overthrow. Adding insult to injury, subversives also have to pay a $5 fee, or face a fine of $25,000 and a decade in jail.