A blog called Search Facebook promises to provide relevant information about how best to tap this emerging consumer research tool, providing INternet marketers with valuable insight into the behavioral preferences of millions of consumers worldwide.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you’ll probably know that the new iPhone is a small computer and mobile phone all rolled into one. Little wonder it is then that it is also set to become the most popular music playing platform in the world. Potentially able to store gigabytes of music files, the iPhone can also play music videos with great speed and clarity.

The Intertubes are also responding to this new portable music reality. iPhone Music, a blog about music production and playback apps on the iPhone is dedicated to providing news, information and analysis about the platform’s music capability. As the iPhone gradually replaces the iPod as the preminent music player of choice, the Web will probably see a lot of commotion about what is essentially a powerful new computing platform.

The decline and fall of a  major social networking site isn’t something you read about every day. But if you’re witnessing it first hand in what is only the second decade of the nascent global Intertubes, it can be quite an experience.

“This is why I love Digg” swoons another acne-faced Digger after reading a mind numbingly moronic Digg thread dedicated to phalluses and peckers, which in turn was created in response to user comments to an equally idiotic yet somewhat humorous submission about how the Florida capitol building apparently looks phallic (complete with flanking testicle-domes). Why someone would love Digg for demonstrating the abysmal intellect of its members who openly celebrate their idiocy may be beyond most casual observers.

If age-old, regurgitated lame penis jokes is the primary reason why we too should love Digg then please, leave us out. The pathetic decline of Digg has been quite a spectacle for all those interested in social networking and social bookmarking, but this one really takes the cake. Mr. Rose, read and weep.

The exact same video made it to the front page of Digg on 23 July 2009, the very next day. Deja vu anyone?

This is hardly surprising, as the favourite pastime for Digg power users seems to be scavenging day-old Reddit content and posting it on Digg to get rave reviews by 16 year old virgins. Digg is rapidly becoming the Fox News of social bookmarking. Unoriginal, run of the mill, mass consumed. That’s Digg for ya.

Original Reddit Link

Unoriginal Digg Link

“Nevertheless, the publication of stolen documents is irresponsible and we absolutely did not give permission for these documents to be shared” wrote Twitter cofounder Biz Stone on the Twitter blog.

In its defence, however, Techcrunch claims that Twitter was well aware of the document acquisition, and that the act of publication took place with Twitter’s acquiscence. The latest tussle highlights the need for transparency and better communication between Internet based organizations and businesses.

Apple’s iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre were released within short periods of each other. Now the Palm Pre is set to debut in Europe, and few doubt its ability to take the continent by storm. The Britsh Isles, however, are a different story with their markedly different preferences for handheld tech devices. If past experience is anything to go by, the 3GS is likely to remain the dominant player in the UK.

International businesses and multinational corporations across the spectrum of industry have come to realize the importance of cyberspace as not only as a marketing tool to reach customers and prospective target markets but also as a diverse and increasingly challenging goldmine of marketing, public relations and industrial information.

Brand monitoring is all the rage on places like Twitter, and advanced monitoring consultancies have sprung up, offering their services to large businesses and blue chip clients. Social media monitoring is one area that promises to hold greast value for corporate business managers as they scramble to analyze and cash in on the buzz their corporate empires are generating among the consuming masses.

In this environment, any business with a social networking push is bound to get a competitive advantage. Social network marketing has the advantage of being readily low profile, and advertising can often be disguised as a benevolent social exchange. Convincing customers is thus easier when your advertising doesn’t appear to be advertising.

Yahoo broke the sad news today on the Geocities website. Many people host classic pages on the website – web pages that have defined Internet culture since its primitive days. Ranging from the whimsical Monkey Man of India to other more serious websites, the end of this free hosting system might see the end of valuable resources on the Internet as people fail to move their pages to paid hosting.