Today, we're announcing a new set of Google Analytics features which builds on last year's enterprise-class feature launch. Some add more power to existing capabilities. Others provide new flexibility to further customize and adapt Google Analytics according to the needs of your enterprise. Finally, we'll introduce Analytics Intelligence. Resist the temptation to skip ahead. We wouldn't want you to miss anything. :-)

Microsoft reported its first quarter earnings today and the news was dim but also promising. While the software giant suffered revenue losses, they weren't quite as bad as predicted by Wall Street. As a result, stocks were up 7% at the time of this post. The online services division, which contains Bing and MSN.com, continues to see losses. This quarter's losses came in at $480 million, up from the loss of $321 million in the first quarter of 2008. Overall, Microsoft's revenues came in at $12.39 billion for the quarter, down 14% from the same quarter last year. However, $1.47 billion has been deferred for Windows 7, which would have placed revenues at $14.39 billion. That would have been just a 4% decline from last year.

Some of you may have noticed lately that Technorati has undergone a redesign, and they've changed the way they calculate Authority. Like we do with PostRank -- ahem -- they now focus on the past 30 days' worth of activity when counting links. It's a good move, and we like their idea for a new Topical Authority measure. The bad news is that they're cutting off their existing API this weekend.

Google has removed the PageRank section in the crawl statistics in Google Webmaster Tools. This has gone mostly unnoticed, with the release of the labs feature, until now. A Google Webmaster Help thread reports the PageRank values shown in Webmaster Tools has now been completely removed. I have verified this and it is true.

Update 2: Facebook announced today that the changes are rolling out. With the new design, you can view stories by News feed (what Facebook deems the most interesting stories in your feed) or Live feed (everything in real-time). Why they did it: Facebook's Raylene Yung explains: "While seeing real-time activities is extremely valuable, we also want to be sure you don't miss other interesting content. After hearing feedback from many of you and exploring some new designs, we decided with today's changes to move what you used to see in Highlights from the right-hand side to the News Feed view in the main column so you can more easily engage with both views."

As previously reported, Microsoft has made deals with both Facebook and Twitter, which will see Bing feature updates from both networks in real-time search efforts. To me, this says that social media just became an even bigger part of search engine marketing, particularly with Google also on board with Twitter and rumored to be talking to Facebook.

Since its inception, Google Maps has always rolling out little tweaks and new features that are useful. But today comes the first large-scale overhaul of the look and feel of the service in quite a while. But you may not even notice it. The reason is that almost all of the changes are very subtle. And unless you spend hours looking at Google Maps everyday, you probably aren’t going to realize when a road outline has been toned down, for example. But looking at the side-by-side images, it’s clear to see that the new look is much nice. Gone is much of the clutter cause by darkened street outlines.

Neobux is one of the most stable paid-to-click (PTC) sites ever to be established today. Until now, Neobux has been the number one paid-to-click site in the world, and pays lots of members instantly. It also allows advertisers to advertise on Neobux, which the members are paid to click the advertisers’ ads. Most paid-to-click sites are meant to be rising and falling because of insufficient funds and lack of advertisers who pay for driving traffic to their website. Meaning, the less advertisers you have, the less clicks which the members have to earn until it fluctuates.

This year after Ebay sold 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion and regardless they seem to be unstoppable. But is this a short rise that will deaply stagger down. Personally I think that with over half a million users it’s very difficult to go backwards. I mean that is roughly 8.3% of the worlds population of 6 billion people. Together with the legal battle Ebay are facing and the fight for Skype , Ebay are doing all they can to keep the user base up so that they will have some chance at winning their case. But what I find most interesting about all this is that they are being sued for the GI software source code which Skype is running off and that they have not paid for the license and have modified the code. It sounds like a real rat race to me. It always seems big companies are being sued when they are on the rise or when they are doing extremly well. This means that they have more money to be sued with. They obviously were patient enough to wait up until now. What are your predictions?