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 Have you been to ESPN.com lately? Have you browsed around their site with your favorite nofollow attribute link indicator turned on? well I have and I was a little shocked.

BusinessWeek is reporting on over 50 CEO’s that are using Twitter to some degree or another. Last August the magazine covered just 18 folks of this...

The majority - or at least the majority of the few folks who voiced an opinion - will indeed rule.  Facebook's governance vote is over, and although its declared participation threshold wasn't met, the social network is preparing to adopt the terms of service most voters favored. 

I took last week off, and it was a big week for Facebook watchers. Facebook decided to change its terms of service, putting its millions of users on notice that Facebook owns their data and isn't planning any opt-out mechanism. Now, to many observers, including Chris Brogan and me, it's not news that free Web services own the data posted to them, but this Facebook announcement caused a firestorm, and Facebook backed off before the week was out. Watching this play out caused me to realize why Facebook is dumber than Google.

Google has been providing tips for optimizing AdSense ads to enhance their performance. The company has provided a three-part video series on this subject, which it has just released the final installment for.

Cisco has released a new survey conducted by Compete about the influence of online video and social media applications on American's political engagement.The Internet was cited by 62 percent of respondents as a regularly used source for 2008 presidential election information and coverage, which was surpassed only by television (82%).Traffic to popular online video sites increased fivefold in 2008 compared to 2004. About 30 percent of registered voters said they used online video to follow 2008 presidential election coverage.

I've been pretty active on FriendFeed for the past couple of weeks and it has definitely become one of my new top spots on the web. In many ways FriendFeed simply replaces a lot of other sites where I was spending time in the past. It has completely replaced Twitter for me for instance and has also taken my chunk of time that I used to spend focusing on my Flickr contact's photos (I now see all of these photos on FriendFeed instead of Flickr directly itself).

Do you want to know what Eric Schmidt did this summer? Public policy has been the name of the CEO's game.