Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could profoundly affect the future of the internet. It’s called the SOPA. The fact is that this legislation as written won’t stop piracy. But it would pose a serious threat to social media and user generated content sites (like YouTube) across the internet. It could also undermine some of the core technical systems underlying the internet, creating new cybersecurity risks. We’d also…

Help For Depression have published the following infographic about Facebook and it’s relation to depression, how people react toward different status, comments and even what people like the most out of these status messages.

This year will be the year of social media trends, technologies and more of mobile users! Much More Mobile The number of mobile users will continue to increase, but it’ll be increasing fast this year, driving more visitors to social media and to different sites, so, you better get your site to be mobile optimized. Google+ Blast Google is doing its best do make a success social network out of G+, and…

The first Whiteboard Friday of 2012 on SEOmoz Video Transcription  Howdy, SEOmoz fans. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Happy New Year. This is the first Whiteboard Friday of 2012, and today we’re talking about anchor text, which could seem like a basic topic. But, in fact, there are a lot of intricacies that we should cover. Let’s get right to them. What I have drawn here is a web…

After being banned from showing on Google SERP for about six months, and the cause of that as Google said is because a lot of the sites on that sub-domain were of low-quality and spamming sites. CO.CC is a free domain & DNS service,

Apple has just agreed to pay Taiwanese chip-maker Elan Microelectronics Corp. five million dollars as a settlement over accusations regarding Elan’s patents of multitouch technology. Newswire CNA reports published the agreement between Apple and Elan: The two parties have come to an agreement that they have interactive authorization of patents, with the U.S. high-tech giant giving US$5 million to the Taiwanese firm, according to Elan.

Will SEO be dead in 2012? In my humble opinion I guess it’ll be affected by couple of factors. first, Google and other search engine is giving the social media relations a priority to reform the SERP based on the connections, followers or Facebook friends. Second, people nowadays  are using social media sites, and these sites became the main source of information to most of them, and the don’t have anymore…

Yahoo named PayPal President Scott Thompson as its new CEO yesterday, hoping that he’ll use his expertise in Internet technologies and e-commerce to benefit the struggling company. With Thompson being selected, Yahoo’s board believes that the company can get better, after several years of loses to Google and Facebook. When he was the leader of eBay payment branch PayPal, Thompson witnessed the site users double from around 50 million to more than 104 million, and…

1. CHOOSE A GOOD HANDLE Be sure to pick an optimal handle that’s relevant to your brand or campaign and easy to remember. Your handle (also known as your Username) then becomes part of your customized Twitter URL such as twitter.com/yoursite or twitter.com/yourtopic. Doing this creates a static address for future search indexing, which also helps usability for other cross-channel promotions. So choose wisely! The fun challenge: doing all this…