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Microsoft is pulling their IE-based rendering engine for Outlook 2007 and replacing it with Word.

What are they thinking? Developing email newsletters that work across most email clients is a challenge because they render HTML and CSS quite differently than a web browser. When designing an email newsletter you must consider many email clients that render your HTML and CSS and design your newsletter accordingly, resulting in something much simpler than what you’d publish to the web. With this announcement, they’re taking a step even further in the wrong direction. Among others, say goodbye to background images and CSS positioning/floats. Is it April 1st?

Google has released their Zeitgeist for 2006 which includes the top searches for the year. They have also shared more information on how they came up with the data. Very interesting.

From rumor to reality; Google has acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion dollars in an all stock deal. This is a great investment for Google (even if Mark Cuban doesn’t think so) as YouTube will fit seamlessly into their ad platform. What do you guys think? Was this a good deal for Google? What sort of impact will this have on further growth for YouTube and the ability to search videos?

Hi everyone, I wanted to drop in to apologize for my recent
absence. While attending Search Engine Strategies in San Jose I received news that
my mother had passed away. I left San Jose early Wednesday morning (August 9^th) and returned to Georgia. I am
now back in North Carolina,
I have returned to the office, and soon I will be posting regularly.

To wrap up my SES experience, we had a great time Tuesday and received a number of visitors to our booth and even ran into a few of our current clients. Tuesday evening we attended Google Dance at Google’s corporate headquarters. It was great to see the Googleplex and more of Silicon Valley.

I’d like to extend a special thanks to Paul, Mike, Colin,
and Tyme for accepting BrandonMilford.com into the 9rules Network. Thanks gang! I’m truly
honored. There were 700 submissions for Round 4 and 111 were chosen. Congratulations to all the new members.

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