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Today, Google has launched a new event gadget for Google Friend Connect. The gadget gives webmasters the ability to spread the word about events of interest. Google Calendar Software Engineer Yoah Bar-David explains how the gadget works:

Cisco has launched an initiative to help cities use technology to cultivate sustainable, intelligent industries as well as citizen services and overall economic growth. The initiative is called "Intelligent Urbanization."

Just before the New Year, Digg Founder Kevin Rose put up his list of New Year's resolutions. Third on that list was: "Build a Better Digg." Less than a month into 2009, the site appears to be on that track.

There are many different ways that a link can be built. One that is often overlooked but which can have huge rewards is writing and submitting articles. The reason article writing and submission is arguably one of the best of the link building methods is that it not only functions as a link building exercise but also a traffic source. Honestly, can you think of a better use of your online marketing time than a tactic that provides for traffic and which can help improve your search engine visibility? Neither can I.

Suppose you're going to start a diet on Sunday.  That means a fill-the-trunk trip to the bakery is in order on Saturday, right?  So Yahoo seems to think, as word has come that it paid about $15 million for a space in La Vista, Nebraska.

Link building is an essential ingredient in ranking your website highly on the major search engines. 

In the "Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques" at SMX Advanced in Seattle, Roger Montti, founder and owner of MartiniBuster.com spoke about link building techniques. (Coverage of the SMX Advanced Conference continues at Murdok Videos. Keep an eye on Murdok for more notes and videos from the event this week.)

When the Google Analytics team provided a pretty narrow definition of search engine optimization, the SEO gurus pricked up their ears. While their objections may seem pedantic in a way, the point is duly noted that one important element was left out of said definition: link building. The focus of Laura Melahn and Jon Stona's post was actually website optimization, a task distinctly different from SEO. In order to proceed, Melahn and Stona defined SEO this way: