This is the front page of Tuesday May 1st’s Wall Street Journal. It’s a well done graphic overlaying Microsoft’s big-dollar entrances into “markets where it lags behind rivals”:

A little over a year ago, I wrote about Facebook’s new vanity URLs and the immediate SEO boost that ensued.

January marked the month where Facebook passed Google in visits and Yahoo in Uniques. Today, Compete released their February 2010 numbers and the trends continued:
1. Google remains the largest by reach (with 141m uniques) and …

According to Compete, January marked the month where Facebook passed Google in visits and Yahoo in Uniques… both are major accomplishments. Even if Compete’s data is not directly tracked – this is important directionally. In …

When I last covered Perez Hilton, it was when he hit 14,000,000 pageviews in a single day – a remarkable feat considering big brands like Huffington Post had topped out at 7,700,000.
An interesting outcome of …

A few months ago, Nintendo and YouTube literally shook up the digital ad world with their Experiece the Wii ad/video. It’s awesome. 4,500,000 video views aren’t too shabby either.
Today, Apple did something similar by running …

Jeremy Liew recently wrote (and his must-read blog) that 54% of searches queries have three or more keywords. That got me thinking about a report I pulled together in late 2006 about similar statistics. So …

July’s Comscore numbers for sports networks were released recently and STACK Media made it’s first appearance on the chart with 3.5 million uniques in July and importantly is the #1 platform for “active young men …

In March, I wrote that Yahoo Buzz could pose a threat to Digg because of their ability to drive more traffic – and I assumed that Digg’s product would be markedly better.
Now four days …

Like it or not, fantasy football is important. According to the New York Times, 15.5 million people play fantasy football each year – about 86% of which are are male and 63% are under age …

I believe that most of the content-based iPhone applications are going to be free over time… and early indications are that this is the case with top free apps include the New York Times, WordPress, …

While sitting in the 110 degree Las Vegas sun yesterday (en route to the worst sunburn of my life), I read Jeffrey Zygmont’s “The VC Way: Investment Secrets from the Wizards of Venture Capital” (availabone …