My job has lately had me producing a lot of video content for the Web, and I suppose my timing couldn't be better. Google just decided to roll out auto-captioning, which will vastly improve the accessibility of video files to search engines. And while Web videos are hardly a novelty, they're starting to influence conversations more and more. Here, then, are a few observations about what (and what not) to do when producing video for the Web.

The Financial Times reported on Monday that both Microsoft and News Corp. are in "early stage" talks for Microsoft to carry News Corp. content properties exclusively in its Bing search results pages. This would become a new form of paid inclusion, but instead of having to pay to get into the engine (as in Yahoo's Search Submit Pro), the engine would be paying the content provider for the right to index and display its results.

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A Google AdSense Help thread reports that an AdSense publisher was banned or disapproved from Google AdSense because the content on their web site is copyrighted. This happens all the time, but in this case, the content that is copyrighted is copyrighted by them and they have the right to use this content - since it is theirs.

Recently, Google opened product AdWords ads all U.S. based advertisers and merchants. So now, if you use Google Merchant Center (aka Google Base), you can tie your AdWords account to it and show those fancy product images, pricing and so on, in your AdWords ads.

This is a guest post by Jesse Stay, founder and CEO of SocialToo.com and all around great Facebook Fan Page coder. He’s volunteered to give away a copy of his recent book, FBML Essentials, to two readers. Scroll down to the end of the post for details on how to win.

Apple, the company behind aesthetically pleasing hardware that keeps fanboys drooling, has recently joined Twitter. If you take a look at any one of their four accounts, you’ll notice one thing: they’re not using Twitter to converse but to broadcast. Effectively, they’re porting their press release information to the wide open, and perhaps going a little more granular by featuring content specific to elements of iTunes. Read more: http://www.techipedia.com/2009/apple-twitter-social-media/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: techipedia (techipedia.)#ixzz0YaZU3vW8

A lot of guys and girls out there are addicted to a social networking program called Facebook. Today, it has reached about 350 million members on the internet and is still growing over and over again. Not only Facebook members want to join just for fun they also want to be part of a group or community which they can also promote their business by posting on walls and fan pages. But how do we increase our number of fans and friends in our Facebook account?

've been obsessed with creating promotions recently. I've been studying the art of positioning promotions and precisely how a promotion is launched, and I've been experimenting with what I've learned. Let's talk about two promotions.

Like all you know, page speed with be a ranking factor in Google in 2010 and if you didn't believe it until now, maybe Google adding a page speed report to Google Webmaster Tools will convince you of that.