Hi there, this is Judy Chang, with PayPal's non-profit team. In the early morning of Saturday, February 27, an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile, killing hundreds and displacing millions from their homes. Many charities have already sent aid and volunteers, but they still need critical necessities including .

The acquisitive arm of Google reached out again today, and this time, grabbed DocVerse, a company that specializes in the real-time sharing and editing of documents. The unusual thing is that DocVerse doesn't deal with just any documents; instead, it focuses on Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word documents. A post on the Official Google Enterprise Blog explained the purchase by stating, "[A]s we continue to improve Google Docs and Google Sites as rich collaboration tools,

by Vera H-C Chan A renewed military campaign overseas and a war film in Oscar contention have brought attention to one of the military's toughest tasks: defending against the low-tech makeshift bomb, AKA the IED . Laymen audiences learned from " The Hurt Locker ," set in 2004, how IEDs had been the weapon of choice in Iraq. Six years later, IEDs are responsible for two-thirds of coalition deaths in that country, and more than 70 percent in Afghanistan.

Last year, Google's Matt Cutts dropped the bomb (to put it in the exaggerated tone that many took the news in), that Google was considering taking site speed into consideration as one of many potential ranking factors for search results. Is your site's performance up to snuff? Comment here . This of course freaked a lot of people out, but as Matt and Google as a whole has maintained, this would not trump relevance.

For the second year in a row, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) asked activists on YouTube to make videos raising awareness about world hunger as part of their " Hungerbytes " competition. And once again, many creative entries came in. Nonprofits looking to run their own YouTube video campaign may want to take note of this effort as it effectively harnessed the imaginative minds of the community to raise awareness of an issue.

Yahoo! attracts largest online Olympic audience, Feb. 8 to 14 Whether it's figure skating, freestyle skiing , snowboarding, hockey, or this year's big game, curling , Winter Olympics fans are turning online in record numbers. And Yahoo!"the single most visited site for the Winter Olympics"is winning the gold in terms of unique visitors. Yahoo's Olympics site attracted 9.3 million unique visitors from February 8 to 14, according to comScore.

On Sunday night I like many others will be glued to the television for those few hours to watch Hollywood honor the best of the best in the 82 nd Annual Academy Awards show. Some people watch for the awards, some for the fashion and other watch for the pure entertainment of the presenters, and this year with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin hosting we are sure to have a very entertaining show.

by Claudine Zap The man who allegedly fired at two guards at the entrance of the Pentagon subway stop, leading to their injury and the shooter's death, has sparked a surge of searches. People want to know more about the man and his motivations. The man John Patrick Bedell was, according to sources, 36 years old and from Hollister, California. Before his confrontation in front of the Pentagon, he left his mark on the Web, posting angry antigovernment accusations ,

Posted by randfish This week, despite still being seriously under the weather (see this week's sad WB Friday ), I flew down to SMX West to speak on the Link Building Strategies panel. Although I'd wanted to put more work in and deliver a better presentation, I received some very kind words afterward and requests from folks to share the deck via the blog. Before I embed the actual deck, though,

The Associated Press said today it is partnering with Livestream to launch AP Live "Oscars Red Carpet," coverage. AP Live coverage of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards will feature social media elements, on-demand clips, photos and news. AP Live is available on a Facebook fan page and syndicated to AP publishers and other distribution channels, including AT&T Entertainment. On March 7,