Trackbacks for Twitter – Dan Zarella has released a cool tool called tweetbacks which basically works like a blog’s trackback system. So if your post is mentioned in twitter by people, you can show it off in your blog. Installation of this tool is pretty simple – all you need is to copy and paste a one line code in your blog.

6 Social Search engines – Lee odden of TopRank Blog shared a nice list of social search engines which are starting their journey in 2009.

Project Jump Start 2009 – Dazzlin Donna along with David Harry started a wonderful initiative for developing small web entrepreneurs. Check out Project Jump Start 09.

Pagerank Indicator in WebMaster Tools – Barry Schwartz @ Search Engine Roundtable recently did a poll about people’s view on the pagerank indicator inside Google’s Webmaster tools. 56% of his readers have voted it as ‘useless’. Ouch!

Sitemaps Affect Crawling Rate – An interesting post by a Youmoz writer who gave out real statistics and detailed analysis of one of his website to prove that having a sitemap can get your pages indexed faster by Google and Yahoo. Rand Fishkin seems to agree with him and his post was promoted in the SEOMoz Blog.

Yahoo Advertisers Faces Nightmare – Loren Baker @ Search Engine Journal reported that Yahoo Search Marketing has rolled out a new TOS which gives it the right to change the search marketing campaigns of its advertisers via changing their ads and adding keywords.

Google Checkout Increases Conversion  – Google has recently added claims to its Google Checkout Merchant homepage that having Google Checkout as part of your AdWords ads will lead to higher conversions and a better click through rate. More info in Search Engine Land.

How To Ease Into In-House SEO Smoothly – Jessica Bowman did a nice write up on In-house SEO Training and listed 5 important things that one can follow to make the transition as smooth as possible.

Two New SEO Tools from Bruce Clay – Bruce Clay Inc. has just released two new SEO tools – Search Engine Optimization/KSP Tool & SEM Toolbar.

5 Link Building Tactics You Probably Don’t Use but Should – Ann Smary @ SEJ wrote a great article with insights of 5 ‘not-so-common’ link building tactics that are effective.

Save 15% on BlogWell Conference – You can easily save 15% on the BlogWell conference. Andy Beal will tell you how.

Verizon did a mobile search deal with Microsoft – After months of speculation Verizon and Microsoft has finally teamed up with a mobile search deal. Microsoft will now become the default search provider of the second largest U.S. mobile carrier – Verizon.

Tech Industry News

Salesforce.com outage hits thousands - Thousands of business users were left without access to their applications yesterday after Salesforce.com’s servers suffered a service disruption.

Windows 7 beta: First impressions - Windows 7 could be one of Microsoft’s greatest operating systems according to Cnet. Read the complete review of Windows 7 by Renai LeMay.

Motorola unveils phone made from recycled bottles - Motorola Inc unveiled a cell phone made of recycled water bottles on Tuesday, hoping to cash in on the trend for environmentally friendly products.

51 Things You Aren’t Allowed to See on Google Maps – Out of all of the places that Google Maps allows you to see, there are plenty of places that are off-limits. Whether it’s due to government restrictions, personal-privacy lawsuits or mistakes, Google Maps has slapped a “Prohibited” sign on these 51 places.

Sun acquires cloud company Q-layer – Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday it has acquired Q-layer, a Belgium-based cloud-computing specialist

Cisco adds social networking to its forte – Cisco Systems is launching a new product to help companies harness the power of social networking and connect their brands to fans.

£1m web pizza weekends for Domino’s – According to Domino’s latest full year results, while like-for-like sales have grown 10 per cent year-on-year, its web sales have jumped by 74 per cent.

China Announces the World’s Largest Solar Plant - Recently China has announced its latest supermassive project: the construction of the world’s largest solar power plant.

Wibe7.tv: Visually Oriented Search for YouTube – Wibe7.tv allows you to perform YouTube searches and return results based on relevance, views, rating, or publish date. Get More details at Read Write Web.

Facebook Reaches 150 Million Users Worldwide – Facebook has announced that it has reached the 150 million user mark. Their members speak in 35 different languages and represent 170 countries and territories.

Here is the copy of the email that Alexa sent out do the developers (Source: TechCrunch):

Dear Alexa Developer,
The Alexa Web Search service will no longer be available to new customers as of November 26, 2008. Use of the service is low, so we are shifting our priorities to other areas where we can provide better service to AWS customers.
The Alexa Web Search service will continue to be operational for 60 days until January 26, 2009. The ProgrammableWeb website offers a list of web services that provide web search.
We apologize for the inconvenience to you.
Thank you,
The Alexa Web Services Team

I tried visiting the official page of Alexa Web Service and I was welcomed with the following notice:

Well I guess it was for Good, who was using Alexa web search anyway? They had such strong competitors like Google, Yahoo & MSN so I guess they have made the right decision to close the service and focus on things that matters.

I use Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as my primary browsers. And Guess What? Now you can experience 3D browsing in your Firefox with a very simple add on, absolutely free of charge!

Why Do You Need a 3D Browser?

Well there are often times when you open so many tabs that you can’t remember which site is where, sometimes you open the same tab twice or thrice because you just couldn’t remember that it has already been open in another tab.

With the help of a 3D view, you can easily view all your tabs at once, thus letting you easily access all the open tabs and navigate them in the way you want.

FoxTab 0.9.9 – 3D Interactive Browsing (Firefox Addon)

FoxTab is a 3D interactive tab switching add-on for Firefox that is very similar to the Aero flip 3D capability of Microsoft Windows Vista. While Flip 3D in Vista allows you to switch between the numerous application/windows that you have opened, FoxTab allows you to do the same with all the tabs you have opened inside your Firefox browser. This definitely help you to spend less time on browsing by allowing you to do more in less time and with greater efficiency.

Even though FoxTab is currently in the beta testing stage, I have personally tested the latest version and found it to be absolutely bug free. However since FoxTab is still a beta software, a free registration is required before you are allowed to download and try out this firefox add-on.

Download FoxTab 3D Browsing Addon

Click on the following link to: Download FoxTab Firefox add-on

The add-on itself is really small in size (only 358 kb). It currently supports Microsoft Windows OS only. Versions supporting Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS X are planned and will be made available at a later date.

FoxTab Operation Instruction

Once you have installed the add-on just press the “launch FoxTab” button on your navigation toolbar and FoxTab will arrange all the tabs you have opened in a 3D “stack” which is tabs arranged one behind another. Just roll your mouse wheel or press the Ctrl-Tab keys to flip through the various tabs you have opened and click the one you want to go to. You can press the Ctrl+Q keys to keep it in a flip mode.

Try it out and let me know how you like it via the comments.

Danny has been a key figure in the search industry for over 12 years (He crossed a decade in year 2006). Thats really …. really…long….even long before Google Existed.

He has written numerous articles and blog posts keeping everyone up-to-date about the whereabouts of the search Industry. He has even created social bookmarking community like Sphinn which purely gathers Internet marketing related news & discussions.

Other than delivering the hottest news of search from his Search Engine Land blog, he also organizes many exciting search conferences that goes with the name Search Marketing Expo (SMX). 

On behalf of everyone, I sincerely thank him for all that he has done for this industry. 

Happy Birthday Danny! Even though you are a year older now, I hope that you will continue to contribute in the industry with the same level of spirit and enthusiasm… and also stay in good health & wealth =).

If you wish to know more about Danny, you can visit:

Danny’s Twitter Profile: http://twitter.com/dannysullivan
Danny’s Personal Blog: http://www.daggle.com
Danny’s Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Danny_Sullivan/684476602
Search Engine Land: http://www.searchengineland.com
Search Marketing Expo: http://searchmarketingexpo.com

The system has been tested on 1,600 ‘customers’ from over the world and 47% of them said they were satisfied after only one session! Even though I haven’t tested this myself, but I do find one thing about MindMentor very interesting; Instead of looking at a database, MindMentor uses a personal process to discover the right solution with you. You can see above several images of MindMentor, your future RoboCoach, welcoming you or scratching its head when solving your psychological problems.