A new study confirms it: Google is altering your brain. More precisely, our growing dependence on the Internet has changed how — and what — our brains choose to remember.

When we know where to find information, we’re less likely to remember it — an amnesia dubbed “The Google Effect” by a team led by psychologist Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University.

Goodbye, soul-searching; hello, facts-at-fingertips.

The finding, published in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, doesn’t prove that Google, Yahoo or other search engines are making us dumber, as some have asserted. We’re still capable of remembering things that matter — and are not easily found online, Sparrow said.

Rather, it suggests that the human memory is reorganizing where it goes for information, adapting to new computing technologies rather than relying purely on rote memory. We’re outsourcing “search” from our brains to our computers.

Read the rest of this article from Standard-Net.

Digital piracy has gained a name of infamy as companies set out to crush a practice that is unloading everything from music to software without paying a dime. Still, while the conventional notion is to fight the practice tooth and nail, some of the most successful cases are those who have embraced it.

Among the success stories is that of “Minecraft,” the legendary game developed by one man that has sold more than a million copies before it has even reached its final release.

Markus Alexej Persson, better known as Notch, is the man behind “Minecraft.” Although he sells each copy of the game for around 15 euros, part of his business model is the word-of-mouth promotion of piracy.

Read the rest of this article from Epoch Times.

Syndicated Content – Good or Bad?  Many may have noticed I have been inter-mixing my blog with some related syndicated content. Like the article “A Portable Charger to Revive your Dead Devices and Schools Hope Social Networking is the Answer to Dropouts.”

What do you think? Love it or hate it?

There are many reasons why I decided to do so, one is because I want my site to be more of a destination then just me jibber jabbering about whatever. I want it to be a place where people find information on hot tech products and where they can get some helpful tech tips. In addition, get information on entrepreneurship and business. So I thought adding syndicated content would be an asset to provide more information that comes from different sources. Plus it would allow me to update my site more frequently by adding syndicated content on the days I’m less likely to post.

Read the rest of this article from BizzieMommy.

Gmail is hard at work restoring service to about 40,000 Gmail users after a software bug deleted their e-mail messages, folders, labels, and filters. So, while things are looking good for those users affected by the bug, this episode proves, once again, that while Web-based services may be robust, you still have to take responsibility for your own data.

Google also takes responsibility. Ben Treynor, Google’s VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar, said on Google’s Gmail blog that Google backs up all Gmail to tape. “Since the tapes are offline, they’re protected from such software bugs,” he blogged. “But restoring data from them also takes longer than transferring your requests to another data center, which is why it’s taken us hours to get the e-mail back instead of milliseconds.”

Read the rest of the article from: PC World

Just how serious is your business about the digital channels?

Any other year, I may have used the words “online channels” instead of “digital channels,” but 2010 tilted the marketing world a whole lot more. We can’t just talk about world-class websites and getting found on the search engines anymore. The pervasiveness of mobile smartphones (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry), tablets (iPad, Samsung, Dell) and the entire app economy that surrounds it is quickly becoming a dominant business force.

Read the rest of this article from Twist Image.

A medieval gem-cutter once set out to exploit pilgrims viewing holy relics. These relics were so old and fragile -or possibly so phoney -that the faithful could view them only from a distance.

The plan was to sell pilgrims mirrors that would capture reflections of the relics, thus staying with the observer forever. Plague ended the pilgrimage and the gem-cutter was stuck with product but no market.

Then, a brainwave. He’d pay off creditors with revenue from a machine he’d devise to copy manuscripts that required armies of monks.

Johannes Gutenberg’s mechanical printing press produced 3,600 pages in a day where a monk in the scriptorium produced four.

But people didn’t use Gutenberg’s press to reproduce only religious works. They printed philosophy, fiction, political tracts, experiments, observations, dissents, arguments, plays, poems, financial statements and pornography, history and eyewitness accounts of great events.

Gutenberg’s invention shattered the power of feudal lords, reconfigured the global economy, and triggered the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and the scientific and industrial revolutions.

Read the rest of this article from the Vancouver Sun.

Of course by now you know the best traffic comes from search engines. If you get the attention of the search engines for your keywords you will be getting hundreds of visitors to your site virtually free. To do that you’ll need to focus on link building. It is easy to rank high with good quality links to your site. The following information will look into three tips for link building that you can implement immediately. Using smart Seo strategies can certainly a person to positively rank for most things, broad search topics like contacts or more specific items like buy cell phones without contracts.

Read the rest of this article from Secrets Affiliate Marketing.

There are so many different avenues you can use to market your campaigns online.  You have your free and paid sources to choose from.  In this article I will share with you how you can boost your internet marketing campaigns using YouTube.

Before writing this article I checked the YouTube stats to see what kind of traffic that site is generating as of today.  They receive roughly 30.9 million viewers each day and those are only people based here in the United States.  Imagine how many sales you could generate if you were receiving just a tiny portion of their traffic to your site.  That’s why is very important to start creating some internet marketing campaignson YouTube.

Read the rest of this article from Ezine Mark.

You may have noticed that Google makes it easy to set up an AdWords campaign, but not so easy to get a return on your investment in pay-per-click. There are a lot of levers you can pull in your AdWords campaign to influence results. Here are eight ways to optimize your AdWords campaign for better ROI.

Read the rest of this article from Video Marketing News.

Recently, InkwellEditorial.com hosted its first ebook writing and publishing tournament. I hosted this tournament because I’ve written almost 20 ebooks to date, and people were always asking me how I manage to publish so many.

So, to prove how relatively easy it was to write an ebook fast, I thought, “Hmm, why not have a public forum where I show wanna-be ebook writers that it can be done.” Hence, the tournament was a challenge for participants to write an ebook in 3 days, put together a marketing plan and start logging sales within a week.

Read the rest of this article from Blogging Tips.