For a photoshop contest , Gizmodo asked readers to "come up with more derivative services Google had in its pipeline." Included are Google Room View, Google Marijuana, and a Google Lightsaber.

Search Engine Strategies London 2010 kicked off this morning - literally. The opening keynote speaker, Avinash Kaushik, author, blogger and Analytics Evangelist at Google, challenged the 1,500 attendees to "forget everything you know about analytics - it's a new decade and there are new rules." Click to read the rest of this post.

Google seemed to have quietly implemented MySpace Real-Time Search API just now. The announcement was actually made by MySpace so I checked out the Official Google Blog if there was any update about this but didn't find any.  Probably because it's too early or maybe Google just don't want to make a big fuzz about this? Anyway, the MySpace folks are pretty much excited about it nonetheless. In fact,

Mobile answers service ChaCha has introduced a new Facebook application that allows users to access answers from both ChaCha and their Facebook friends. The ChaCha Facebook app allows users to ask a question to any of their friends on Facebook and the question is also automatically submitted to ChaCha. ChaCha says it will return an answer from its database of hundreds of millions of answers.

One of the great things about SEO is that it allows you to see many lenses on business that you can't normally see with most other professions (outside of perhaps something in high finance or management consulting anyhow). One day you are building a bootstrapped business from scratch wondering when it will make its first Dollar, and the next day your on the phone with McKinsey consultants or an executive from a fortune 500 company talking strategy.

My wife used to tell me that I would give too much away...and then she pens something like this AdWords affiliate guide .

In case you were wondering, Facebook is pretty popular. Google is of course the undisputed king of search market share, but Facebook has the edge in some areas. Social media is the obvious area. While Google is hoping to make some serious headway here with Buzz, Facebook is far and away the dominant being in the world of social networks. Compete shared some data with us that emphasizes just how big Facebook is, and just how seriously it should be taken.

Like millions of people around the world, I recently donned my retro-cool 3D glasses and immersed myself in the experience that is Avatar , James Cameron's groundbreaking 3D film. And while I watched Avatar as a movie fan, I also found myself thinking about it within the larger context of entertainment, technology and advertising-and how those three industries are increasingly dependent on one another. When the Oscar nominations were announced recently,

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced that Ken Tarpey, chief financial officer, will present at the 12th Annual Credit Suisse Global Services Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The presentation is scheduled to begin at 9:00 am MT (11:00 am ET) on Monday, February 22, 2010.

Google and MySpace have taken the real-time plunge. This afternoon, Google implemented the MySpace Real-Time Search API, meaning that searchers can now find all sorts of content moments after it's created on the social network. A MySpace representative wrote in an email to WebProNews, "Beginning today, when users perform a search on Google, publicly available MySpace stream updates will appear in Google's Real-Time search results.