It's a little ironic that I'm writing this post about iPhone apps using WordPress on a Motorola Droid (Devour actually), but it allows me a chance to experience how hard it is to blog, using a tiny tiny tactile keyboard and also finally get this post started. Ah, back to a full sized Logitech keyboard and mouse. Much better. Popularized by iPhones, there are apps for just about everything, including tools to help social media marketers on the go. In fact,

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on social networking access via mobile browser. The study found that 30.8 percent of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile browser in January 2010, up 8.3 points from 22.5 percent one year ago. Access to Facebook via mobile browser grew 112 percent in the past year, while Twitter experienced a 347-percent jump.

TiVo said today it will begin offering two new set-top boxes starting in April. TiVo Premiere will sell for $300 and will have the ability to hold up to 45 hours of HD content or up to 400 hours of standard definition content. TiVo Premiere XL will retail for $500 and hold up to 150 of HD content or 1,350 hours of standard definition. Premiere's search functionality offers user the ability to find content on cable, YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Video On Demand,

Last year, Google quietly got rid of PageRank in Webmaster Tools . Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Susan Moskwa had said , "We've been telling people for a long time that they shouldn't focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it's the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it.

by Vera H-C Chan So what do the boys need? A night at the sweat lodge? Buddhist chants? A marathon viewing of "The Hurt Locker" on a loop? While the painful jitters have eased up, the boys to men on " American Idol " aren't putting on the best reality show on earth. EW finds the week's improvement a case of going " from woeful to middling ." VH1 agreed that the men stepped up, but the night " was still pocked with pitchy renditions,

In case you missed it, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke at SMX West in Santa Clara yesterday, addressing the search marketing industry for the first time (you can watch that at our new site live.webpronews.com ). Obviously, much of the conversation was centered around Bing. A little bit later in the day, WebProNews caught up with Miiko Ollila, Senior Product Manager on Bing Local to talk a little bit about Bing's efforts in local search. As Ballmer noted in his keynote,

Blogs have almost become as ubiquitous as the internet itsself. With powerful CMS tools like Wordpress and Blogger it's never been easier to start a blog. In past articles I've spoken about the need to hire a professional web designer to get a great design or to rely on one of the thousands of free themes. However,

There are two kinds of people on the Internet: the greedy and the generous. The greedy want you to pay for everything. Every link is an affiliate link. Every recommendation has a profit motive. The really good content is locked away until you fork over some money. The generous want to give you everything free. It never occurs to them that their time or expertise has value. They're kind, selfless, giving, and (too often) dirt poor.

LinkSidebar is a useful FireFox addon that allows to view, search and test hyperlinks in a web page. Let's give it a test drive, shall we? It took me a few minutes to figure out how to actually open the sidebar after the installation. It turned out I should have used the shortcut key [Ctrl+Shift+L] or the view menu (View->Sidebar->Links). LinkSidebar allows the user to: See all hyperlinks in the current web page,

Knol is a Google service that allows anyone to publish an article about almost anything. When Google's VP of Engineering, Udi Manber, announced Knol in December 2007 it was widely regarded as a "Wikipedia killer". If Knol's users could replicate the success of Wikipedia, the pundits proclaimed, then Google would gain an enormous commercial benefit.