</p> <p>There has been a bit of a kerfuffle over Rupert Murdoch?s plans to prevent Google from indexing his newspapers? online editions.</p> <p>Not only that, talk of him charging visitors for the privilege of reading online versions of News Corporation stories has been met with distain.</p> <p>So what, I say ? more chance for everyone else! By removing the presence of The Times, The New York Post, The Sun and The Sunday Times (to name but a few) it leaves the door open for other independent websites to get their content indexed quicker and ranked higher.</p> <p>Quality content is king and this latest development provides companies that update their site with regular news and blogs with a chance to exploit News Corps? lack of presence in Google.</p> <p>It?s difficult to judge whether or not Murdoch?s plan of action will lead to greater profits for News Corp, but one thing?s for sure, it offers everyone else a great opportunity to profit from it.</p> <p>

In a recent social networking study released by ComScore, the Netherlands takes the prize of being the country with the highest number of users on both Twitter and LinkedIn.</p> <p>According to the study, 26.8 per cent of the Dutch have a Twitter account while 26.1 per cent are on LinkedIn.</p>

Last year, it was the ?Like? button; this year, it is ?Send? ? a button that works much like ?email to a friend?, allowing Facebook users to share information with a select group of their friends.</p> <p>The new Send button, which launched on Monday, is similar in appearance to the Like button and intended to serve as its companion.</p>

Deals, social media content site Facebook?s answer to Groupon, is launching in five US cities today, including San Francisco, California, Dallas, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia.</p> <p>As told to the New York Times late yesterday, with Deals, Facebook hopes to be able to use the status updates, Likes and communications between users to provide a service that is more tailored and compelling than those of the likes of Living Social and Groupon.</p> <p>Emily White, Facebook?s director for local content, told the NYT that the new service will focus on offers best used by groups of friends ?such as concerts or other events.</p> <p>?You can receive Facebook deals via email,? she said.</p>

Last Saturday, the 16th of April, was ?Foursquare Day? ? the second annual event where Foursquare users from all over the world celebrated the highly popular social media, location based check in site.</p>

</p> <p>On the internet, it is all about content, with small businesses and individuals depending upon a level playing field to ensure their message, product, and/or service is seen and used.</p>

Like everything else on Facebook, advertising is about interacting with the user in a personal way.</p>

Later today, the EU will be unveiling its proposal which is intended to foster net neutrality; a proposal which is expected to please the bigger players on the internet while disappointing consumer and advocacy groups.</p> <p>The primary concern behind the new legislation is, as the internet becomes more sophisticated and therefore a bigger playing field, the effect rising media consumption will have.</p>

In case you missed it, the 16th of April was ?Foursquare Day?, a day when users around the world celebrated the popular social media site.</p> <p>While participants came from around the world, in New York and 13 other cities, the day of celebration was recognised officially, with New York City?s mayor appearing at Foursquare? New York office to deliver the official announcement.</p> <p>?Now therefore, I, Michael R.</p>

</p> <p>While blogging is not the hot topic it once was, statistics show that for the general public, interest in personal blogging is waning, that does not mean that, for a business, the importance of blogging should be discounted.</p> <p>When it comes to SEO and marketing strategies, blogging still ranks right up there.</p> <p>For one thing, blogging is the new way that many successful companies get information out there.</p>