ChatRoulette is a site that is getting a lot of attention. Some think it could be the "next big thing" on the web. The concept is simple. You chat via a webcam or keyboard with random strangers. If you don't like the one you're currently connected to, just click a button (or hit F9), and you're on to the next one. Maybe at some point you can find someone you like, have something in common with, or don't find incredibly repulsive. It's not for everybody. Anybody can use it,

Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2.  As always, you can visit the Tools->Upgrade menu to upgrade.

One of America's oldest universities is going to turn to Google for a lot of new software, according to a new report. Indeed, Yale is supposed to get the whole Google Apps for Education shebang, including email, Google Calendar, and Google Docs. Google's promoted Apps for Education as a cutting-edge and yet user-friendly solution for quite some time. Yale's utilization of it would be quite the PR win, considering how the school's so well regarded.

Google said today it views its relationship with Apple as valuable and does not see any reason for that to change, even with the rumors Microsoft's Bing may replace Google search on the iPhone. "Apple is a very close and valuable partner and we're very excited about the relationship we have with them today. We have no reason to believe that's going to change," said Vic Gundortra, Vice President, Engineering, Google, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Last year we posted Jonathan Allen's excellent video from SES London 2009 " what should we do with the Black Hats? ". Now Jon has released a new remixed version, featuring footage from last year's LondonSEO party into a teaser for the first ever Black Hat / White hat Unconference at this week's Search Engine Strategies conference in London. It seems, in ancient history,

In 2009, there were well over 200,000 page views in the adCenter API Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) documentation. We thought you might appreciate a few tips about the adCenter API documentation. All of the advertising API documentation is located in the MSDN library under Microsoft Advertising Services . Currently, documentation is available for the Atlas APIs as well as the adCenter APIs.

You may have noticed I've been writing a lot about SEO copywriting lately. More than that, I've been working on a content optimization software solution for the last 6 months with a team of very smart people. It's called Scribe, and it makes SEO copywriting simple. Creating search optimized web pages, blog posts, and press releases used to be time consuming at best and mystifying at worst. Not anymore. What is Scribe?

It is the year 2010... So get yourself down to Search Engine Strategies for the, all new, Black Hat Vs White Hat Unconferenced & London SEO party. Click to read the rest of this post.

I don't think there's any question that you need a web presence to survive in today's business climate. But do you still need a traditional website, or has the web moved on in that regard? Do you still need a website to be succesful online? Share your thoughts . First off, let me be perfectly clear in that I'm not advising anybody not to have a website. That said, there are a lot of ways to have a web presence without actually having a site,

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of online health insurance activity in 2009. The study found that nearly 24 million Americans visited a health insurance site in Q4 2009, representing 10 percent of the total U.S. online population. The study findings will be presented in greater detail in the complimentary comScore webinar, The Online Health Insurance Landscape, on February 16, 2010.