On The Morning Wire: 12-3-07

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Welcome to December! Coverage will be deep and frequent this week as the WM team will be at PubCon and Search Engine Strategies. The following are press releases that caught our attention today, December 3th, 2007. If you have a news announcement you would like to share with the Website Magazine community, please contact Website Magazine editors now.

Yahoo! Announces Top Trends in Search in 2007 : Yahoo! today announced the Top Trends in Search, as told through the billions of searches in 2007 conducted by millions of Yahoo! searchers around the globe. Yahoo!’s Top Trends in Search reveals a portrait of a culture on the brink of political breakaways, celebrity breakdowns, technological breakthroughs, environmental action, sporting errors and final farewells to popular icons.

SEMPO Launches 2007 State-of-the-SEM Market Survey : SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) http://www.SEMPO.org announced today it is launching its fourth annual industrywide survey to assess year-to-year changes in SEM spending and resource allocation.

The Quarter Wiki brings you Traffic and Profits for just a Quarter : Zedomax Network, a Web 2.0 company based out of San Francisco, has just launched a new paid online encyclopedia called QuarterWiki.com. Users can buy their own page on the Quarter Wiki for just a quarter. Unlike Wikipedia, users can add videos, RSS Feeds, advertisements and GoogleMaps to a page on The Quarter Wiki.

'Tis the Season to be Bloggy: 24 Blogging Days Gives Holiday Business a Boost : Blogging is great for traffic and web business, but sometimes it can be tough to muster up the energy to entertain your blog audience on a regular basis. This holiday season, Wordfeeder.com offers daily blogging support and coaching for marketers, business owners and entrepreneurs who want to turn up the volume on their blogs -- with a free blogging event, "24 Blogging Days 'til Christmas."

Marketingworks Pinpoints Online 'Influentials' with Radian6 Social Media Monitoring Solution : Los Angeles based Marketingworks Inc. ("MWKS"), a leader in dynamic digital word-of-mouth marketing and online consumer activation campaigns, has selected Radian6 Technologies, Inc. to help uncover the most influential sites and individuals in social media. MWKS plans to incorporate Radian6's technology into its already exceptional Digital Word-of-Mouth (DWOM) campaigns for even more succinct customized targeting for a broad range of clients.

Network Solutions Announces Enhancements to E-Commerce Web Site Package With Release of E-Commerce v7.1 : Network Solutions® has enhanced their E-Commerce web site software packages with the release of v7.1, which includes added features designed to simplify the process of E-Commerce Web site creation.

OpenDNS Announces DNS-O-Matic: Free Service to Simplify Residential ISP and Small Businesses' Dynamic DNS Service : Invitation to use DNS-O-Matic extended to hardware manufacturers, service providers, Internet users