I am all about simplicity, and having multiple Instant Messaging clients open at the same time bugs the heck out of me. So I hooked myself into the world wide webernets and found some multi-client stuff out there that I might like.

Now, back in the day, I was a user of trillian. However, Trillian never really impressed me, and I ended up just using AIM ad-hack or something similar. Something that would enhance AIM beyond the plain old vanilla, but not too crazy. Well now that Google talk is becoming a bigger kid on campus, I kind of wanted to go multi-client again. Which leads me to Digsby.

If you are the social networking type, and have been playing around on the intertubes with stuff like facebook, myspace, twitter, etc this program is a godsend. It will keep facebook chat, google talk, AIM, MSN, etc open while also checking your gmail, facebook notifications, myspace stuff, twitters, etc. It all does this in a really nice pretty little package that just warms the heart.

DOWNLOAD DIGSBY AND BE HAPPY!

The tipping point of local search has been rumored to be around for a while, but with the advent of the google 10-pack, some say it might be right around the corner. Soon, the world wide web may be come a lot more regionalized.

David Mihm, a local search specialist, took a look at what has become important with local search along with twenty other SEO specialists. You can see his results here: Local Search Ranking Factors

PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait… wait… C: wait… SD: wait…

Word on the street was that Amazon was cloaking and I believe that this is the reason their site went down. Conspiracy? Maybe, but I’m sure Google said fix it or it will cost you. Taking down the site for 2 hours is a smaller price to pay than 6 months getting kicked out of the index.

Our calculations based on their most recent SEC filing indicate that their loss per hour was $2M (2 hour outage = $4M!). Market cap loss that day was approximately $125 million. Ouch. Holy smokes, that sucks.

Read the full article here:
http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=26718