On Monday, Nathania Johnson wrote about " The Unlikely Heroes of Search and Social Media " who used abso-freakin-lutely no SEO. Today, I'd like to highlight one who did. Click to read the rest of this post.

This week Bing Maps and Microsoft Research will be heading to San Jose to attend OReillys Where 2.0 Conference. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect of Bing Maps will kick off the event keynote at 9am and will also take part in The Big Picture, from the Big Players panel at 2pm alongside Danny Sullivan and folks from Yahoo!, Google and Yelp. If you cant make it to the keynote, the speech will be live streamed and all content will be available on YouTube following the event.

Google and Apple have clashed a number of times in recent months, and a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer is poised to ensure that the two companies butt heads yet again. Asus has indicated that it will challenge the iPad with a tablet PC powered by either Android or Chrome OS. Elizabeth Woyke talked to Asus chairman Jonney Shih and reported afterward, "Shih said one Asus tablet will likely run Google software, such as the upcoming open-source operating system, Chrome,

Popular Twilight author Stephenie Meyer said on her website her next book "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" will be available as both a physical book and online. The book will be available for purchase in bookstores on Saturday, June 5 in hardcover for $13.99 and free online starting at noon on June 7 until July 5 at www.breetanner.com . "I'm as surprised as anyone about this novella," said Meyer. "When I began working on it in 2005,

by Jennifer Laycock If you're looking to further your education in online marketing or know of a non-profit that could use an educational boost of their own, you're going to be interested in hearing about MarketMotive's spring scholarship contest. The team at MarketMotive is generously allowing each faculty member to award a scholarship to one of their readers. The contest is simple.

Social media marketing is largely about engaging with your audience, and a big part of that is knowing where your audience is. A lot of brands may find that their audience is easiest to reach through forums, which are kind of the old school social networks. Do you use forums to engage with your audience? Tell us about it . There's no question that there is a lot of value to the big networks like Facebook and Twitter,

We are only 33 days away from the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit ! Only 68 tickets are still available. We have sold out for past events and foresee the same for this one. This is one of the most important conferences that you will ever attend in the search marketing industry. Top experts within the field are flying in from all over the country to be a speaker on our panel. Search marketing is ever-evolving and the news,

Terrance Kelleman, the President and Designer of Dynomighty Design , spoke last week at SES New York 2010 . He was one of the speakers on the keynote panel, Video: The Next Digital Marketing Frontier, that was moderated by Zach Rodgers, Managing Editor, ClickZ . Click to read the rest of this post.

Google said it has detected malware targeting Vietnamese-language users opposed to bauxite mining in the Communist country. The malware infected the computers of "potentially tens of thousands of users" who downloaded Vietnamese keyboard language software, Google Security Team member Neel Mehta wrote on the company's security blog. The attacks targeted opposition to the mining of bauxite, an ore used to make aluminum. "While the malware itself was not especially sophisticated,

MS Adcenter has a slightly higher ROI than other major PPC alternatives. However, this is where its dominance ends. Adcenter is plagued with small design problems that are not only annoying, but downright frustrating. With the amount of money that Adcenter brings in, it is time for them to make life a little easier for advertisers. Here are 7 easy changes that would make working in Adcenter much smoother. For me,