by Mike Krumboltz Two years after airing " Camp Rock ," starring Demi Lovato , the Disney Channel went back to the well with " Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam ." The TV-movie aired on Friday night and pulled in a staggering number of viewers. Over 8 million people tuned in, the highest ratings of any 2010 cable movie. Now, that's a lot of eyeballs. Disney frames it another way in a press release. If the film were released in theaters,

For some people, summer's a time to live at the pool. For others, it's a season better spent vacationing in another state or country. But as it turns out, a lot of people used this summer to become better acquainted with Twitter, increasing the overall number of tweets by 33 percent. A post on the Royal Pingdom blog stated today, "Twitter processed 2.64 billion tweets this August, an increase of 33% over May. Not a bad increase over just a summer. In August,

The Google Beat presents this week's most popular search queries. Search has become the most important way of finding news and information. All that search data gives you a wealth of information of what is on people's mind right now. Needless to say both marketers, policy makers and intelligence analysts have understood that this wealth of search information can be used to understand social, cultural and economic trends.

We are still experimenting with the new design of our search engine news wrap-up column, trying to turn it into an even more informative microblog. Here are this week's headlines. 3 Free Online Alternatives to Google Calendar If you start looking for good web based Google calendar alternatives that are free, you won't find a lot of them.

By knowing more about SEO parameters, websites can effectively be designed to be found by the three major search engines. Website performance is directly affected by how easy it is for users to find the site, so here's some information on the most common SEO parameters used by search engines today. By Guest Writer James Mowery Domain Search engines take into consideration the domain type and the age of the domain name when ranking websites. Also,

Apple says that more than one million users joined their new music-focused social network Ping in the 48 hours following its launch. I find that hard to believe. I do believe that people will flock like seagulls on a chip bag to a hot new social media site even though they can't keep up with the ones they're already on. I do believe that people will jump at the idea of a music-based network (take that Myspace!) especially one brought to you buy the maker of the iPod.