Im continuing with our posts on some of the tips shared by our support engineers. These are overlooked steps or easy-to-correct errors that sometimes prompt support questions. As always, if you have followup questions, let us know and Ill research it with the engineering team and report back. Be sure to remove the spaces around the credentials in the API calls. Sometimes a space goes unnoticed and this can be a cause for the error: Authentication failed.

You probably have forgotten about Second Life (the virtual world from Linden Labs), right? Remember, thats that virtual world that got a TON of hype back in 2005/6. It was on the cover of magazines. On CNN and other TV shows. It looked like it was going to be THE new thing of the decade. What happened? Well, a few things. 1. Corporations figured out that theyd need to spend a lot of money to build an island in Second Life (Microsoft spent somewhere around $100,

Although not directly related, a new development has added a layer of complexity (and perhaps humor) to the Google/China/censorship mess. Chinese President Hu Jintao has signed up for an account on what appears to be the state-run equivalent of Twitter. The relationship is not quite a direct one. The People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, and the microblogging site in question is owned by the paper, not the Communist Party. Still,

The following is a guest post from Tom Demers. One of the most pivotal aspects of driving large volumes of search traffic in most verticals is effectively targeting long tail keywords. While ranking for competitive phrases and developing link authority are certainly crucial aspects of SEO, much of ranking on long tail keywords is properly targeting and optimizing for them.

by Vera H-C Chan The pants have been picked off the ground, the rejects have gone home, and host Ryan Seacrest is shifting the melodrama into overdrive. " American Idol ," which ended up with the Nielsen silver against the Olympics in its Hollywood Round, should be gunning for the gold this week with its first live show of Season 9. And for a show always known for its Southern boosterism , "AI" has stacked the decks almost too well for Season 10. Out of the 24 hopefuls,

A Facebook Page can be a great way to build your fan-base, inspire engagement with customers/readers, and generally build upon your brand. However, if you want to do a promo on one, that'll cost you. Facebook's policy dictates that one must get written approval from a Facebook account representative. In order to get one of those, you have to spend about ten grand advertising with the company, according to Eric Eldon at Inside Facebook . So basically,

There has been a bit of discussion throughout the Blogosphere that MySpace is changing its direction, trying to differentiate itself from other social networks like Facebook. They reportedly have a new product strategy called "Discover and be Discovered", which would include a feature simply called "Discovery." Not many details are known about MySpace's forthcoming new direction,

My buddies from Conversion Rate Experts have put together a review site for multivariate software called Which Multivariate . Surprisingly old school in the modern affiliate link filled web, they have made the site vendor neutral and are not planning on ever taking affiliate commissions in an attempt to gather honest reviews. Check it out. Its worth a look!

As mentioned in Simone's blog about spring trends , below is a more in depth look at what is occurring in the travel market. When planning your Microsoft adCenter campaigns, take some time to think about: 1) emerging trends in the market and 2) seasonality.

If "Content is King" and "Links are Queen" when it comes to SEO, ecommerce sites must be like America - no king and no queen (but there is opportunity)! To put it another way, the typical  medium or large e-commerce website faces substantial challenges to SEO - both from a content and a link perspective. Allow me to explain' The Inherent Challenges Of SEO For Ecommerce Sites Content Challenges From an SEO standpoint,