Did you catch the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics last Friday to kick off the games? To access that and all the latest videos from the games and for a snap shot into all the Olympic excitement visit www.msn.com to view the Winter Olympics module at the top of the page. There has been a lot of buzz in the hallways about favorite events and favorite athletes.

Most people regard typos as nuisances, just inconsequential mistakes that cause them to lose a second of time hitting the backspace key. But for Google, typos may equal big business, as Benjamin Edelman and Tyler Moore have estimated that they make the search giant $497 million per year. Edelman and Moore, who both call Harvard their home, coauthored a paper titled "Measuring Typosquatting Perpetrators and Funders." In a blog post summarizing it,

Yesterday at about 2pm PleaseRobMe went live. PleaseRobMe is a site set up by a few developers who want to spread awareness about how easy it would be for people to rob your home if you share too much information about yourself online, specifically your locationeven more specifically through Foursquare. The site displays a list of messages asking people if they know the whole world has access to their location.

Airfare tracking service Yapta said today it is partnering with travel search site Kayak to power its flight search engine. "By introducing Kayak's best-in-class flight search engine, Yapta members now have greater access to flight data and are able to track prices for virtually any flight in the world," said Tom Romary, president and CEO of Yapta . "Tracking airfare prices prior to purchase will help travelers save money 45 percent of the time.

Yesterday, the blogosphere was abuzz with Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Mobile World Congress demo of translation capabilities in the Google Goggles visual search application. Hartmut Neven, the man who assisted Schmidt with the demo at MWC in Barcelona also released a YouTube demo clip of this feature: This integration connects an Android smartphone's camera to an optical character recognition engine,

Posted by willcritchlow It's time for a quick mid-week geek-out - I wanted to collect together a bunch of resources I have written on first touch tracking in Google Analytics including (for the first time that I'm aware of),

Well, we knew this was going to happen. With a high user engagement and a massive userbase build up, Facebook has just slipped pass through Yahoo to become the no.2 most popular website in the U.S. Latest data from Compete.com shows that Facebook is not only raking up userbase but user engagement as well as it had  133 million unique visitors last month. Yahoo's unique visitors were pegged at 132 million, while Google still sit on top.

A new way for Android users to get around the Web should debut this year. Jay Sullivan, Vice President of Mobile at Mozilla, has indicated that Firefox Mobile for Android will land sometime in 2010. The nonexistence of this product might have troubled some fans of Mozilla and Google. It's no secret that the two companies have been growing apart as Chrome came out and Mozilla's director of community development endorsed Bing over Google. Also,

LinkedIn is often discussed as a powerful social networking tool, particularly for business professionals, employers, and jobseekers. What is not discussed as frequently is the site's ability to simply drive traffic to your site. We talked to entrepreneur Lewis Howes (who claims that LinkedIn is one of the top traffic sources to his blogs) about how powerful LinkedIn can be for driving traffic. Is LinkedIn part of your strategy? Comment here .

by Claudine Zap Let's be clear. Live TV plus wild animals plus clueless host equals a recipe for disaster. But on the Web it's a winning combination. We want to assure you that no TV hosts were seriously harmed in the making of these videos that have gone viral. The psychological damage is harder to gauge.