TOP 50 MARKETING BLOGS

For those of you who can't get enough marketing info...check out the top 50 marketing blogs.

CREATIVE P/R IDEA...STUNT

A group of freelance marketers (Fast Forward Marketing Braintrust) get together to help feed the hungry this holiday season, while at the same time helping small business owners with a free marketing workshop. www.MarketersForFood.com. Check out the YouTube video below...

SOME BIG NAMES ON THE WEB COULD BE IN TROUBLE

According to CNET, the web is not immune to our nation's economic woes...some huge names on the web could be in trouble...including MySpace, Second Life and Pandora just to name a few. Read the entire article and see some of the other big names at CNET.com

DO YOU MAINTAIN MULTIPLE IM ACCOUNTS?

If you're like me, you have multiple IM accounts to maintain, i.e. AIM, Yahoo Messenger, SKYPE, Window's Messenger, etc. Cool company called MeeBo.com has a method to consolidate...plus some other benefits. For the techies out there, here is a good interview with the founders of MeeBo.

LONG URL'S CAN BE SUCH A PAIN!

Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have them break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? If you are a consummate Twitter or Texter, then you may already be familiar with TinyURL, but if not, you may find this to be an invaluable tool/service. All you have to do is go to TinyURL and paste in your extremely long url (web address) and it will convert it into a "Tiny Url" in which you can easily manage for myriad uses.

A NEW BROWSER...BY GUESS WHO...

If you guessed Google, you'd be correct. Looks like Google will be launching a new browser called, "Chrome" to compete with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera and others. If it comes from Google, you can probably expect a coolness factor as well as being clean and fast...oh, and I think it will be Open Source. Look for an official announcement from Google tomorrow.

THIS IS A COOL, OR SHOULD I SAY "CUIL" NEW SEARCH ENGINE

There are new search engines popping up all over the place...some have real potential as they serve vertical or niche needs...such as images. Here is a pretty "cool" new search engine that indexes and displays differently than most. Cuil.com