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Barry Schwartz posted something of a rant at Search Engine Roundtable after an unnamed blogger attacked the site's live blogging coverage of PubCon:

 Obama Has A Drinking Problem

The other day I posted an article about Pandora's probably upcoming demise as a result of a royalty rate hike put in place by SoundExchange, which represents record labels and the artists signed to them. If popular opinion around the 'net is any indication, the issue is a lot larger than Pandora shutting down. An Industry in Peril

It’s been a few months since Apple has done anything to mark its

We recently reported on Google's new search in search functionality where Google offers users the ability to search a site within its SERPs (search engine results page).Search in search is aimed at helping searchers get to their desired information more directly from Google's results. The concept sounds great in theory, with searchers being able to filter through a site's content direct from the results page.Well it's great until it presents competitor sponsored listings when displaying the internal search results from a particular site.

Some people know about behavioral targeting, and some people don't.  To educate this second group (and perhaps make the first feel less threatened), AOL intends to explain the practice with a cartoon penguin.

The numerous list posts you see on the most common mistakes made by adwords beginners don’t get to the root of the problem. They focus on the use of adwords features like this:

Last night I met Dan Pritchett, technical fellow at eBay. He told me that eBay alone has 21 identity systems. So, if you wanted to use every part of eBay’s empire, like Skype, PayPal, StumbleUpon, etc, you’d need to sign in 21 different times. Needless to say he, and others at eBay, are working on solving that problem. Why did I meet up with Dan Pritchett? Because of a speech by Tim Berners Lee, the guy who invented the Web. No, Al Gore didn’t do that. Heh.