by Mike Krumboltz It was a scene reminiscent of "The Breakfast Club." On stage at the Oscars was a brain, and a basket case, and a princess, and a criminal. Oh, and Macaulay Culkin , Matthew Broderick , and Jon Cryer were there, too. At last night's ceremony, awards were given and speeches were made, but one of the most memorable moments came during the tribute to late writer-director John Hughes . Molly Ringwald (star of "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty In Pink,

Although this turned out to be a pretty "meh" day for the stock market as a whole - the Dow and S&P 500 slipped a little bit, while the Nasdaq didn't gain much - Yahoo investors should be feeling pleased. Yahoo's stock rose by a significant amount as an analyst rated it "market outperform," up from "market perform." Sameet Sinha of JMP Securities is the man who's responsible for making that change, and he attributed the move to Yahoo's relationship with Microsoft.

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by Mike Moran Image by luc legay via Flickr Social media is free, but what's the catch? Time. We only have so much time to spend putting our message out there, but we don't want to limit how many people can hear what we have to say. This problem comes up in many ways, but the simplest is the dichotomy between Facebook and Twitter. Many folks decide to spend the bulk of their social time on one or the other, with relatively few people using both. If Google Buzz catches fire,

Has it ever occurred to you that you may have keywords on your site that are misleading to search engines? Or that you need to take a look at all of the keywords you are trying to rank for, and think about the different meanings and contexts that those could be taken in that are unrelated to your actual product, and then eliminate other seemingly unrelated words that to a search engine could be misconstrued as an indication of one of those other contexts?

According to comScore Video Metrix , nearly 173 million U.S. Internet users watched 32.4 billion videos in January 2010. Do the math and you'll discover that viewers watched an average of 187 videos per viewer during the month. Click to read the rest of this post.

Spending on online advertising and marketing will surpass print in 2010 for the first time, according to a new report from Outsell. Companies will spend $119.6 billion on online and digital strategies, from search engine keywords to webinars, while committing $111.5 billion to print such as newspapers and magazine ads. Overall, U.S. spending on advertising and marketing will increase in 2010, but only by 1.2 percent to $368 billion. Outsell forecasts spending, share,

Four months ago, Facebook launched something called the Preferred Developer Consultant Program in an effort to point companies and celebrities towards the best developers. Now, the program's taking an important leap forward as Facebook's more than tripled the number of recommended developers. Facebook started things off with just 14 developers, which seemed like an interesting choice. Those dozen or so developers couldn't possibly design too many Facebook pages and/or apps,

by Vera H-C Chan It was ladies' night at the Oscarsâ?"and it wasn't just about the dresses. Sandra Bullock 's off-the-cuff charm, Mo'Nique 's homage to a black female film pioneer, and Kathryn Bigelow 's history-making win made No. 82 memorable. Sure, the ceremony cranked out too long, and some critics cringed at the dance numbers (note to producers: Next time hire the choreographer from "Dancing With the Stars," not "So You Think You Can Dance"). And once again,

Saving time on bidding and reporting reaps big rewards for the digital agency and software provider. Click to read the rest of this post.