Jason Lee Miller | Staff Writer for WebProNews

Instant messaging is overtaking email as the preferred way to communicate, especially among teens and young adults. Overall, IM’s are up 19 percent year over year, with many Americans sending as many, if not more, IM’s than they do emails, according to AOL’s Instant Messaging Trends Survey.

Thirty-eight percent of respondents say they send as many or more IM’s than emails. But for teens and young adults that number is vastly higher with two-thirds reporting they send more IM’s than emails, up from 49 percent last year.

Written by Jason Lee Miller & taken from SmallBusinessUK

The 21st Century, where all things tech, software, media, and e-business will converge and boom with deafening force, is creating a new realm of specialization that is vital to an evolve or die type of market. That realm, as many are learning through litigation and deflated new product hopes, is intellectual property rights.

Intellectual Ventures, a company spawned by two former Microsoft employees, recognizes the potential of this burgeoning market, collecting patents rather than products.

Written by John Krycek for EntireWeb

Do you have to sacrifice all of the creative and artistic elements of your web site to rank in the search engines? Later in this article I’ll show you a real case scenario and the design and SEO approach used.

Thanks to the birth of professional search engine marketers the top ranks are saturated with the pages of companies that can pay for such insight. That said, it’s certainly possible to employ high ranking tactics in your own website. Actually, the most basic tactics can move you up from an 800 position to a 300. However, it’s the top of the scale where efforts seem almost inversely exponential or logarithmic, you put a ton in to see a tiny change in rank.

WNW Design have recently launched Anchor Partnership’s new website, a UK based business and management coaching company.

Often, to make that crucial leap in your business and leave a productivity plateau behind, an outside influence is needed. Anchor Partnership works with motivated professional individuals to increase their levels of success and lead them to new and better achievements. By offering support, insights into creativity, inspiration and assessment, a personal success coach from Anchor Partnership can boost your performance in the workplace and help you get to where you want to be.

Written by Kamau Austin for SiteProNews.com

It is the trend du jour. They are the subject of pundit press, guru glare, and are ready for mainstream adoption. RSS feeds and their communication kin the blog — are bandied about as the next big thing.
Everywhere you look there are articles and ebooks touting the electronic affinity and high value of these two forms of media creation and distribution. However can these two forms of digital media drive more traffïc to your site, or — are they just hype?

Written by Jason Lee Miller | Staff Writer for WebProNews

A recent report from web analytics firm One Stat reveals that Mozilla Firefox usage worldwide has increased by nearly 3 percent since April 2005, pulling Web surfers away from Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera.

Firefox’s global usage share has reached 11.5 percent, says One Stat. Internet Explorer is still the browser of choice for the vast majority of the online world, commanding 85.45 percent, based on reports from over 2 million users.

In the United States and Canada, however, Firefox is much more popular. Just over 14 percent of US net-surfers use Firefox as their primary browser, compared to 80.73 percent for IE. Almost 17 percent of Canadians prefer Firefox to 78.52 percent in favor
of IE.

By Merle MCPromotionsPress.com

Have you ever wished for someone to come along and compete with “Google’s Adsense Program”? With the launch of “Yahoo’s Publisher Network”(YPN) you could say that some wishes really do come true.
If you’re not familiar with Adsense or YPN, both programs allow you to add specialized coding to your website pages and then display text-based ads which are related to the content on the page. For example, if you have a sports related website theme, then ads would be shown for sporting goods and services.

Written by Will Moore for EntireWeb

If the current indications are correct we may be looking at the end of reciprocal linking as a method of building rank and link popularity, at least as far as Google is concerned.

The latest ‘Google Dance’, nicknamed ‘Jagger’, has caused major concern by those suffering loss of position on the top ranks of the search engine’s listings. So we decided to take a close look at what is happening and see what we could learn.

Written by Kamau Austin for SiteProNews

It is the trend du jour. They are the subject of pundit press, guru glare, and are ready for mainstream adoption. RSS feeds and their communication kin the blog — are bandied about as the next big thing.
Everywhere you look there are articles and ebooks touting the electronic affinity and high value of these two forms of media creation and distribution. However can these two forms of digital media drive more traffïc to your site, or — are they just hype?