The current state of the internet (the good and some of the bad) in 2 minutes.

Do Web Portals Have A Future?

Something big happened in the Digital Marketing landscape last week.

In case you missed it, on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010, Compete announced that Facebook surged passed Yahoo! as the number two most popular website in the U.S. That’s big news, and most people focused on the numbers (nearly 134 Million Unique Visitors in January 2010, amazing engagement and thoughts about whether or not Facebook can eventually trump Google’s position at #1), which is an important part.

But there’s something bigger happening here.

It’s easy to call this the death of the portal (and it might be), but that comment would be somewhat displaced if you looked at the numbers and how the rest of the Compete list plays out. What is happening is that as more and more people who are connecting online - and are building their profiles in spaces like online social networks - are much more inclined to make those personal pages their homepage.

Another interesting take on Social vs. Search from Mitch Joel at Twist Image. Click the link above to read the entire article, it is really interesting food for thought…

Slowly, but surely, it does seem to appear that Social is surpassing Search… Sure, this is only US stats, but it certainly indicates just how prevalent Facebook and social technology has become in our lives.

Connect your Client

• Pidgin - Windows/Mac/Linux
• Adium - Mac
• iChat - Mac
• Other - Windows/Mac/Linux

Looks like AOL is not the only one getting FB chat integration! Finally their chat might actually be useful!

It is wild to see how quickly a brand like Facebook can emerge as well as the kind of stats it can create on a monthly, weekly and even daily basis…

An interesting peek into how Google plans to leverage the Social Web… Look forward to kicking the tires!

Some great insight (and some subtle venting) from Chris Brogan on how “lucky” he is in life. Chris offers some solid insight into what it takes and what must be sacrificed for success. Bottom line, don’t “be lucky” do what it takes to make things happen for you!

I frigging LOVE College Humor :)

Those of you who have been avoiding Twitter, but are fans of Facebook are about to get a look at one of Twitter’s best features… The ReTweet. Essentially a ReTweet is sharing a link or post that someone shared with you while giving them credit for the initial post.

As it says in the Mashable post (click the link below the picture), this is only live for Posted Links, but we have a feeling this will be live for all posts very soon!

Those of you who have been avoiding Twitter, but are fans of Facebook are about to get a look at one of Twitter’s best features… The ReTweet. Essentially a ReTweet is sharing a link or post that someone shared with you while giving them credit for the initial post.

As it says in the Mashable post (click the link below the picture), this is only live for Posted LInks, but we have a feeling this will be live for all posts very soon!