Small and medium-sized business (SMB) marketers are becoming increasingly convinced of the positive results of video email, social media and personalization, according to a new report from GetResponse. Over 80 percent of respondents plan to use video emails in 2010 and over 90 percent of SMB marketers who use video emails report it delivers significant conversion rates. More than half of respondents said video emails can increase click-through rates.

Patrick Pichette joined Google as its CFO on August 12, 2008, and since then, he's seen the company through both good times (a stock price of $620 per share) and bad (try $262). So Google fans should find it comforting that Pichette, with his range of experience, has said the company's doing quite well again. Pichette spoke during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, and according to John Letzing , stated,

A while back, WebProNews had a conversation with RateItAll President Lawrence Coburn about how the long tail of search is getting more competitive. Companies like AOL and Demand Media are working on dominating long tail searches with content across a broad scope of article subject matter. We had another conversation with another company that is doing this, called Suite101 , which is placing an increased amount of emphasis on SEO to up the competition in this space even more.

Google announced today it has acquired Picnik, a cloud-based photo editing service. The company consists of about 20 employees. "Google processes petabytes of data every day, and with their worldwide infrastructure and world-class team, it is truly the best home we could have found. Under the Google roof well reach more people than ever before, impacting more lives and making more photos more awesome," says Picnik in its announcement.

About five months ago, Google started a contest to determine where its Street View trike would take pictures in the U.S. Today, Google released some impressive stats concerning participation, and also announced the winning locations. Let's start by establishing how many people took an interest in where Google will send its trike. A post on the Official Google Blog explained that nearly 25,000 suggestions were made, and that a whopping 238,000 folks cast votes.

by Mike Krumboltz It's "Great TV Families Reunited" week on NBC's " Today Show ." On Monday, the cast of " Eight Is Enough " stopped by 30 Rock. However one of the cast members was notably absent. Web searchers want to know: Where was Adam Rich ? Adam Rich played Nicolas, the youngest child of the Bradford clan. Mr. Rich's character was the cute and precocious child, getting into (not serious) trouble, being a bit of pain to his siblings, etc.

Online photo editor Picnik has been acquired by Google, as the Picnik blog announces . The Picnik team is excited, writing that "It means we can think BIG. Google processes petabytes of data every day, and with their worldwide infrastructure and world-class team, it is truly the best home we could have found." TechCrunch comments that "Interestingly, Picnik is Flickr's default photo editor"... Flickr being a competitor to Google's Picasa Web Albums.

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Google has just acquired another company as announced by the company's official blog . It's Picnik, a fun, online image editor that was founded in 2005 and since then become one of the most feature-rich online image editor partnering with various photo uploading sites including Flickr. Picnik offers some easy-to-use tool that you can use to enhance, modify, and add more excitement to your photos. All done online at the Picnik site, I mean website.

Hi Everyone, Today we're starting a new series called Exploring DMOZ. These posts will give individual editors the opportunity to highlight categories where they work. We hope that this will help demonstrate the depth and breadth of editor knowledge and highlight the richness of the directory itself. Editor crowbar has prepared the first one. Emily - - - - - - - - - What is the topic of the category you edit in?