So the topic of Internet Marketing always seems to be how companies look for ways to utilize social media and the personal information available to gain insight on the habits of internet users. Today we even went a step further and talked about web crawlers and their jobs indexing and cataloging information for search engines who're trying to segment millions of web searches.

However web crawlers can be used in other ways as well. Indexing text to search for key terms is one thing, but web crawlers also can collect entire websites and all of their content, long after the sites themselves have been disbanded and deleted.

Check out this link here and type in any website you're familiar with, and then sit back and be amazed at the many different years of the many versions that have come and gone, even perhaps those that are no longer there. It'll surprise you...

Google announced that it has developed a new feature for AdSense. The feature allowed mobile publishers to run special Google text ads when the site is visited by a smartphone. The advantage of this new features allows the ads to have more sophisticated design and some images, instead of the pure text ads that run on regular cell phones.

I read an article about twitter today and I thought it was interesting. As we all know, Twitter is in its beginning stage and is growing. The co-founder of Twitter spoke with CBS about the upcoming new features. A big feature is the credibility and how you will be able to locate the tweeter.

Mashable produced an article warning bloggers about not disclosing their connections with a given product. Bloggers who fail to disclose their connection with companies, specifically on product reviews. The link details that consumer's have a right to know blogger-to-company ties especially when money is exchanged. Although each instance is determined on a case-by-case basis the penalty is stiff- $11,000 per post.

http://mashable.com/2009/10/05/ftc-blogger-endorsements/

I just thought this was kind of amusing and thought I would share with the class... apparently Drew Carey decided that he was sick of his name on Twitter, @DrewFromTV, and put a bid of $100,000 for @Drew. The original @Drew is auctioning his name on twitter which he calls "prime real estate" for cancer research.

Read more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/05/drew-carey-bids-100k-for_n_309743.html

The article posted below is an interesting method for small businesses to utilize the wiki trend. Small businesses can utilize wiki tools to benchmark past successes and failures as well as other crucial information to avoid potential overlap or re-work. These tools are invaluable since small businesses are inherently limited to the number of employees they hire and their general overhead costs. Wiki tools are a great way to 'level the playing field' against large competitors.

http://mashable.com/2009/10/04/business-wikis-guide/

Mashable recently posted some interesting stats for Twitters current value. In recent events Twitter received additional funding speculated at 100 million dollars. The article goes into detail about the unprecedented growth of Twitter in it's relatively short history. Although Twitter has yet to announce a formal business model the potential for future growth is clearly visible. The most noticeable statistic is the growth in single share price growing from a fraction of a cent to nearly $16 per share.

http://mashable.com/2009/10/04/twitter-stats/

I've recently been hearing quite a bit about Google Wave but haven't really understood what it's all about. I just stumbled upon this article that has a video that quickly summarizes the Wave's capabilities. I think it is amazing that email can become so much more effective. It will be interesting to see if Google can successfully change the way people communicate via email.

http://mashable.com/2009/10/02/video-google-wave-gets-explained/

I was on facebook today, and have lately been paying more close attention to the advertisements on my profile as they are targeted toward me. Today there was one called Twitter Adder--making more revenue from Twitter; so I clicked on it. The page that popped up is a whole site for Tweet adder, a networking software that supposedly helps you to automate your twitter promotion and marketing and up your followers to the amount that people such as Oprah and Ashton Kutcher have. And there is a free downloadable demo-- so check it out!

They are basically promoting this software as the "Ferrari" of Twitter Friend Adding, haha. The article is pretty interesting so take a peek:

http://tweetadder.com/

My mother just sent me a hard-copy newspaper article last week. It was about a full-time college guy at University of Iowa, got flunked out from that school. It was because he spent every minute playing the video game called, World of Warcraft which is part of a social media today, and was seeking for a help to break this habit. He eventually found the first resident treatment center for Internet addiction in the U.S.

I found the exactly same article from online and would like to share it with you.

Check this out……
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/mobile/story.asp?ID=304340