Bonus question for five extra points and your chance at our grand prize can you name who lamented the loss of his reputation  ”Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. Give up? Of course not you can name the fellow in a moment because you only need paste that into Google and TaDaa…it was that idiot Cassio from Othello. I say idiot because having been in a touring production of that play waaay back in the day bits of it are firmly lodged in what remains of my memory…and the love sick...

As guys go I think I’m reasonably calm, doing my job it’s pretty much essential. I have been known to yell on occasion but I’m in severe danger of blowing my stack about the cool new feature from our good friends at Google called SideWiki. It’s almost entirely brand new but I imagine it has already set off alarm bells all over the world. Just in case this hasn’t crossed your metaphorical desk yet let me fill you in on the details. If you download the new Google tool bar (or update your existing one) you will acquire the new Google SideWiki tool. It lets you go to pretty much any page...

Doing the job I do I get to attend quite a few conferences. Some are very tech oriented with an average attendee age of about 12 with body piercings mandatory, others are more marketing focused, but Kelsey gets the prize for the best food and the most suits. DMS ’09 happened last week in Orlando and we may have been the only group of people wearing jackets within a twenty mile radius. It was a fascinating conference, I’ll admit that hour after hour focused on trends and solutions for the emerging online side of the Yellow Pages industry isn’t everyone’s idea of a fun couple of days…but...

Ever since Microsoft’s failed attempt to acquire Yahoo last year the search world has been a twitter about what would be the next shoe to drop and last week it duly fell. In the new deal the main search of Yahoo will be powered by the new Bing search engine from Microsoft. I don’t know if you have tried it but I have been pretty impressed by Bing. Admittedly my home page is still powered by Google…as is my email and desktop search but I’m a fan of the new Bing and the travel search is just excellent. Search is very expensive to do much tougher to do really well than it might appear....