Some great new stats came out recently regarding online behavior: 

93.4% of respondents use the internet to research a B to B purchase decision.
63.9% of respondents go to the search engine as the first step in the buying process.
54.6% of the people are 1-3 months away from making a buying decision. 89.7% of the people are […]

It’s creepy, silly, amusing, scary and above all very "edutaining" if you’re interested in the Web at all and where it all just might be headed.
If you have 8 minutes, by all means, checkout this video on the potential futures of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the world’s media giants.

BusinessWeek has a great cover story out now about blogging for business. Much of the content can be seen online as well.
Click here for the article.
Takeaways:
Go ahead and bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the Internet […]

No, I haven’t turned to the dark side to start pandering Internet porn. Stick with me on this. It’s pretty amusing, and it’s a great lesson in the power of anchor text …
I’m surfing around the Web today, ’cause that’s what I do,  and come across this eBay rip-off site called AZNwhore (I found it […]

Monster announced the hiring of a Washington insider today . According to the press release:
Phillip Bond is Senior Vice President, Government
Relations. As Undersecretary of Commerce for Technology at the U.S.
Department of Commerce and the former Director of Federal Public
Policy for Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Bond is an accomplished Washington
veteran with nearly 15 years of government experience spent […]

Easily the most prominent source of pain for my clients is best summed up by:  "I’m so tired of the masses of unqualified candidates who apply to my jobs on [job board here] and the newspaper. How can I get in front of more targeted, passive candidates?"
Search engines in general are a great way to […]

Every SEO blogger on the planet is talking about this, but I thought this might be worthwhile for my Internet recruiting folks who may not receive updates like this and why it’s relevant to them:

Google’s Q1 GangbustersGoogle’s first quarter saw enormous gains in both revenues and profits as it soaked up even greater shares […]