Adobe Systems has proposed a standard that could make it easier to create Web pages with fancy layouts seen more often in magazines. The company recently proposed a technology it calls CSS Regions (PDF) to the World Wide Web Consortium, which standardizes the Cascading Style Sheets technology widely used to control formatting on Web pages.

Charlie Sheen is the man of the hour. He’s become Twitter royalty, adopted the vlog medium, and kept Facebook abuzz; all-in-all taking social media by storm. Here’s what Charlie can teach us about social media and marketing…

Many people have this misconception that SEO is magical and can bring you traffic and results overnight. That couldn’t be far from the truth. Good, legal, white-hat or whatever you wish to call it, SEO takes time. It doesn’t work overnight and it doesn’t bring instant traffic.

Your campaign objectives are set. Payment settings are in line with the budget, keywords have been selected, and you are geared to run a successful AdWords PPC campaign. Everything is ready to launch except one very important element; the ad that visitors will see after a query. The three elements of an ad that require attention are the title, description, and eventual landing page. Let’s take a look at each…

The Barracuda Labs year-end security report for 2010 was recently published. This annual report looks at various threats around the web involving malware, search engine security, and cyber crimes on networks such as Twitter.

We all know that the delineation between public and private was eroded by Facebook a long time ago. Over. Done. But now Facebook’s sheer scale is pushing it in a new direction, one that encroaches on your authenticity.

Tax season is upon us; there is no denying that. While the standard print ads and authoritative TV ads have been making their appearances for weeks now, they seem to be less prominent than in recent years. With increasing regularity, accounting firms countrywide are turning to social media in unparalleled numbers to ramp up their marketing efforts.

Your credit score carries significant weight in your financial life. Want to rent an apartment or buy a car? Good luck doing so with a bad credit score. The same logic applies to landing a job if you have a negative online reputation. So says MyWebCareer, an early stage startup that has developed algorithms to run your “Career Score,” a credit check for your professional web persona.

The most-frequently cited reason Facebook users give for “unliking” a brand is that it posts too frequently, according to a new report from Exact Target and CoTweet. Data from “The Social Break-up” indicates 44% of Facebook users list this as a top reason for unliking a brand they once liked on Facebook.

Infographics are nothing new; presenting data in a graphically-appealing manner has been around just about as long as the data itself. Anyone spending a reasonable amount of time of the internet as of late however will note the sudden and perplexing popularity of these graphics however. An “insider” who got a little tired of seeing these graphics pop up everywhere revealed the truth; infographics are an advanced keyword-spamming tactic.