Internet Marketing Blog by Tilak

Now Microsoft and Facebook will work together. According to a Wall Street Journal, Microsoft Corp. has invested a $240 million in Facebook Inc.

Near future the online advertising boom will continue and the popular social networking site will be among the biggest beneficiaries.

Microsoft will also give Facebook funds to invest in new services, buy equipment, make acquisitions and hire engineers. Facebook’s Mr. Zuckerberg has said he plans to expand from more than 300 employees today to about 700 employees a year from now.

Facebook has some greate plans to reveal a new advertising system that will let advertisers visit an automated website to place targeted ads on Facebook and elsewhere on the Web, say people familiar with the matter.

A major Google page rank update has punished large scale of blog networks. Both Problogger and Blog Herald, two of the most popular blogs on the niche, announced that their PR dropped from 6 to 4. Earlier authority blogs sites confirmed that they have lost PR due to paid links. But Problogger and other blogs are not selling links.

Andy Beard suggested that the sites that got penalized were either selling links or exchanging them inside large blog networks.

Danny Sullivan wrote Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google over two weeks ago.

These days so many blog websites online for strong Google pageranks of each website. This move by Google is good reason for many smaller blog sites.

Here is a list of some sites, including major publishers, who seem to have taken a hit overnight:

http://www.forbes.com/ PR7 to PR5
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ PR7 to PR5
http://www.washingtontimes.com/ PR6 to PR4
http://www.statcounter.com/ PR10 to PR6
http://www.autoblog.com/ PR6 to PR4
http://www.engadget.com/ PR7 to PR5
http://www.blogherald.com/ PR6 to PR4
http://www.problogger.net/ PR6 to PR4
http://www.copyblogger.com/ PR6 to PR4
http://www.searchengineguide.com/ PR7 to PR4
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ PR7 to PR4
http://andybeard.eu/ PR5 to PR3
http://www.seroundtable.com/ PR7 to PR4

It is very interesting to see my blog pagerank which is not update yet.

Few days back, iGoogle has available in 13 new languages. Now total number of supported languages to 42 and country domain supported to over 70.

If you are a new for iGoogle and dont know much about it, iGoogle is a personalized version of the Google homepage that lets you select the content that matters to you most from across the web and arrange it in a way that you find useful and fun.

Here are the 13 new languages available:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and Tagalog.

Now Flickr has partnered with Microsoft to enable to Flickr upload by Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Check out the beta now! (You’ll need to run Microsoft Update after installing it in order to get the absolute latest version with Flickr included.)

Now Gravatar is the part of Automattic. Yesterday, Matt Mullenweg has announced that Automattic has acquired Gravatar for an undisclosed amount. Automattic is the maker of ultra-popular blog platform Wordpress.

Automattic has already moved the Gravatar code, blog to Automattic’s infrastructure, and now gravatar is more than three times faster and works everytime.

I will take a week off in this month. Well, I have planned travel to Orissa. I will be there with my family. We will visit Bhubaneshwar, Nandankanan Zoo, Konark Sun Temple, Chilika lake, Jagannath Puri Temple , Puri beach and other places also.

I’ve never seen to Orissa before, so I am very much excited to visit there. I am hoping it would be ideal holidays for me and my family as well.

Today, Google has announced that the storage in Gmail accounts has been increasing, so they’ve speed up the counter.

Google acquired a mobile social network, Jaiku. It works similar to Twitter, the service that made the concept of microblogging successful, but Jaiku also lets you add feeds from other sites and mix them with your messages. Like in Twitter, you can add a list of contacts and see an overview of their latest updates.

Paypal has announced new money withdrawal features to your Visa branded credit or debit card. This funds transfer feature is availabe in 26 countries, including India, Malaysia and Philippines.

Now India, Indonesia and the Philippines can receive funds from 190 markets and 17 currencies but you have to be a verified member to use the new withdrawal features. US$5.00 is a withdrawal fee (or local currency equivalent) per transaction. Currency conversion and return fees may also apply.

If you withdrawal funds to debit card, then funds will appear on your bank account and for credit card, it will show on your credit card statement. PayPal takes 5-7 working days for the transfer but Visa card issuer’s policies may affect the processing time.

It is a good news for Indian professionals. Isn’t it?