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Just before holidays a colleague of mine asked me if Amazon and Toys"R" Us were involved in behavioral targeting. He told me that he did a search for Lego on ToysRUs and a few days later when he visited Amazon, he saw Lego featured on the home page. He said that he had never did any search for Lego on Amazon.I looked at the code on ToysRUs and did not find anything that looked like it is sharing data with Amazon.

SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, wants people involved with SEM to take its 4th annual State of the Market survey.

Union Square Ventures’s past investments include Del.icio.us and FeedBurner; it’s currently backing Twitter, Indeed, and AdaptiveBlue.  Union Square Ventures is also behind a lawsuit against Union Square Partners, and, for simplicity’s sake, I’ll henceforth refer to the entities as “Ventures” and “Partners.”

The 2006 elections mark a new era in the way that candidates for various political offices are promoting their platforms to the voting public. Google Video, YouTube, and Google Earth are some of the virtual avenues that today's candidates are utilizing to reach out to the Internet voter.

It seems that Google and Apple have been caught holding hands. Close onlookers noticed that it appears as if the two companies might be "working together to bring geotagging to iPhoto." Others feel that "collaboration" is far too strong a word.

I'd like this article, "Sales and The CEO," by Jeff Thull author of Mastering the Complex Sale.

SDForum announced the Developer Testing Forum, the first event to bring together leading luminaries and practitioners of developer testing.

The one big advantage that small businesses (and especially home-based or sole-proprietorships) have over larger enterprises is the ability to show personality and friendliness to their customers and potential customers. Someone who is really involved and has a direct interest in the happiness of the customer brings something more to the bargain than does the employee of the faceless corporation.