Wow! Everything has been so busy lately.  Here’s a roundup of what’s going in in international SEO, search, and social media.

China has blocked YouTube, Twitter, Bing, Flickr, and a host of other social and email sites (especially those from Microsoft).  The block occurred in the countown to the Tiannamen Square anniversary, but is likely to [...]

Well, your SEO blogger may have been under the weather lately, but that doesn’t stop the flood of SEO news coming in.  To hlep me get back in the swing of things, and to get you caught up, here’s just some of what’s been going on lately:

German Internet sales grew in 2008. Despite the economic [...]

Twitter is fast becoming 2009’s buzz social media site. Microblogging has taken over and people are already taking Twitter vacations.  Nobody knows for sure how many Twitter users there are, but TechCrunch last year reported that there were likely in excess of 3 million messages per day.  That’s a number that can only have gone [...]

It looks like Twitter has broken the news about a significant event again, with news outlets like Sky (UK) reporting they found out about the crash from tweets.  CNN’s article says that within moments, members were already tweeting news and photos of the crash.  #schipol has already become a known hashtag, and even a Twitter [...]

A popular year-end announcement was made last week.  Google released their annual Zeitgeist listing the top searches across a variety of topics around the world.  Although some terms were popular in many places (such as “Obama” and “Facebook”), other terms give insight into the continued diversity of the Internet and the interests of users in [...]