According to reports from ReadWriteWeb Yahoo is to close MyBlogLog in January after 5 years.

An innovative social networking tool in its time MyBlogLog allowed users create blogging communities with the blogs they write for and own. Members of MyBlogLog were then able to subscribe to these communities and share bookmarks with other members. (more…)

Consumer spending online is continually growing. With online spending projected to increase this Christmas with more people looking to do some of their shopping online, and also high numbers of consumers projected to do their January sale shopping online the growth and power of ecommerce has never been as apparent as it is right now. (more…)

In a bid to improve the efficiency of your website and make the ‘web better for everyone’ Google yesterday announced the release of a new tool into Google Labs that allows you to see how people see your website through different browser sizes. The new tool called simply Browser Size overlays a transparent image over the top of any website you enter and the image displays the percentage of users that can see your content without having to scroll. (more…)

In 2009 we saw the introduction of the canonical tag. Announced by Google back in February the canonical tag was jointly introduced by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft with a sole purpose of providing an easier way of preventing the search engines form indexing duplicate content on a single website. (more…)

It has recently been announced that AOL are to sell its social networking site Bebo and instant messaging service ICQ to Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies (DST). (more…)

It has been on the cards for a while and has been a subject often talked about in the same breath with the battle of the search engines. However Google have now put live realtime search capability in their search engine and with it given themselves a massive competitive advantage as well. (more…)

Google’s Local Business Results never cease to amaze me. Considering that Google are really pushing blended results  I hear nothing but problems and complaints from business owners about their their map listings in Google including results suddenly going AWOL only to return weeks later. (more…)

It has been on the cards for a while but Google have now put their fading homepage live. When users visit the Google homepage they are now greeted with a noticeable minimalist design and users can only see the links that normally adorn the page once they move their mouse. (more…)