Going by the World bank Global Economic Prospects report for 2009, the world GDP growth will be 0.9% for 2009. Welcome 2009! This grossly enlists the major trends & what you should expect out of 2009. We wish you a Happy new year 2009. Social Media Trends 2009 From TrendsSpotting. Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit Stumble This Post. Developing countries will likely grow by 4.5% next year, down from 6.3% The Slideshare link to this deck is here. MORE >>

Social Media Websites and their Impact on SEO explores Mixx, Sphinn, Twitter, Digg, delicious, StumbleUpon, and Reddit and shows the positive and negative impact of using each. delicious: 6 Ways to Make Life Easier with delicious : How many of you actually use delicious as a search engine? How to Analyze Your Site with Delicious : Ann Smarty dissects the various parts of delicious.com and shows you how you can learn more about your website. Seth Godin’s post from the last day of 2008 is the reason why I held publication of this post till 2009.  MORE >>

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends by Adam Sherk on October 1, 2009 This week Google started embedding a Hot Trends graph at the bottom of search results pages for queries that fall within their top 100 fastest-rising search terms, as seen in this example screenshot: While checking out search trends is interesting for users, it can also be valuable to publishers. 2 comments… read them below or add one } Gary Gregory October 9, 2009 at 4:51 pm Thank you for the list! Does this work? Sometimes. MORE >>

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100 Blog Topics I Hope YOU Write (Chris Brogan): This post should keep you devoid of writer’s block until at least 2009… 101 Essential Blogging Skills (Skelliewag): You need not possess all 101, but they certainly help. By the way, I still haven’t fully embraced video yet , so this will only include written articles. Maybe next year, folks! 24 Do-Follow Social Bookmarking Sites that Actually Work (Caroline Middlebrook): Get some powerful links on some of these lesser-known social sites. What are the most popular sites in these age groups? Rae explains all. menu item. MORE >>