Beginner’s Guide to SEO
by Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz.org
Sections in this guide:
• Prologue: Who is SEOmoz and Why is this Guide Free?
• A: What is SEO?
o Why does my company need SEO?
o Why do the search engines need SEO?
o How much of this article do I need to read?
• B: How Search Engines Operate
o Speed Bumps and Walls
o Measuring Popularity and Relevance
o Information Search Engines [...]

There is growing unease among consumer privacy advocates over Google’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick.
How will the search-advertising powerhouse treat the massive amounts of data it already stores on people’s search histories, once it also has at its disposal a storehouse of data on people’s surfing habits from DoubleClick, the No. 1 digital ad-serving [...]

Comcast and the Walt Disney Company have signed a multibillion-dollar deal that will allow the cable operator to distribute Disney programming on its video-on-demand service.
Comcast has also agreed to buy Disney’s 39.5 percent stake in the E Entertainment channel for $1.23 billion, writes the Associated Press (via MediaBuyerPlanner). CBS and NBC have made similar deals [...]

Google’s YouTube has struck a deal with online distributor Digital Music Group to carry TV classics like “Gumby,” “My Favorite Martian,” and “I Spy” free of charge for viewers.
“Gumby” has some big shoes to fill following Viacom’s insistence last week that YouTube take down over 100,000 Viacom-owned videos, including any trace of Jon Stewart and [...]

Apple is starting to promote the usefulness of the Mac in business. Seems to be an effective strategy to help break the stereotype of Macs being accepted only by graphics and video types. Looks interesting:

http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/sb-switch/apple/index.html?s=203
According to Apple, The Mac is the best tool for both the office and the home, making it the ideal computer [...]