Online Marketing Buzz this week, latest updates

Latest buzz about SEO and internet marketing around the Globe:

Here is what is going on - online and offline as well in the arena of SEO / SEM / Internet and search marketing + promotion.
Feel free to comment and add your own news bites too :)

Search experts from around the world will be come together in London on 19 Nov 2009 to discuss latest developments in internet marketing.

The link between internet marketing and social media such as Facebook has grown by 46 per cent in the last two years, new research.

Nimbuzz makes its WAP chat application available to Virgin Mobile customers in India.

TransMedia on Wednesday plans to tweak Twitter by introducing a new micro-blogging service called Glide Engage increasing 140 character limit.

Yahoo Delicious begins letting users tweet their bookmarks on Twitter, bringing social bookmarking service a real-time relevancy it lacked.

Hoping to deal with a growing problem, Twitter has quietly introduced a feature to prevent users from posting links to malicious Web sites.

EU (The European Union) says a third of Europeans never used Internet - Reuters

Ybrant Digital acquires ad network company Max Interactive - internet marketing news

Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Makes Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2009 Must-Attend Event for Search Engine Marketers

Google's Schmidt Resigns From Apple Board - Internet Marketing Business News
An attempt to avoid the conflict of common interest and business, as assumed.

Google Woos Business Users With Billboard Ad Campaign - for the first time the internet marketing giant ' Big G' is going for the traditional way of advertising via Billboards.

26% of Twitter users in US use it to find news and stay updated: Study

Newspaper by rural Indian women wins UN literacy award - Sify news

learning more about SEO - Future, Website Design Hosting Web2.0

SEO, the Search Engine Domain, although not limited to, is deeply concerned over latest search engine updates, mainly Google ( some term it as a part of Google SEO)

Eversince the evolution of the internet from the military camp to an interactive ecommerce zone with user-experience is now kept at priority while designing a website, hosting as well as transactions and business leads.

Here is a exlusive video list of most popular seo questions and answers asked across the globe by search marketers, search enthusiats and those who want to Learn SEO, from one person all the search industry knows ' Matt Cutts ', Google Engineer.

Lets start with the age-old but always being asked question:

Will SEO still exist in five years?

The Web-designer's nightmare, what to prioritize design or SEO, CSS or Tables, images or Text?

Are CSS-based layouts better than tables for SEO?

Here's what Matt has to say on CSS and SEO

now comes the part where the website hosting is related to and indirectly a concern for webmasters in terms of download time, http headers and redirections etc.

Do site load times have an impact on Google rankings?

Fast servers, local / national server datacenter does help in loading and connecting with the DNS ( Domain Name Servers), but does it have any impact on Google Rankings?

Can the geographic location of a web server affect SEO?

worried about AJAX or interactive websites or web2.0, Matt has answers to that too..

Are Google SERPs moving to Ajax?


Is Google doing anything different for Twitter results?

Twitter, the most popular micro-blogging tool used by more and more web surfers has created a Web2/0 issue of content / data updates relating to a page-ranking question, how it can be compared with other static pages and websites.