Here’s a great round-up article I came across that offers ten different examples of how companies are finding success with social media for their business-to-business marketing efforts. It gives some good illustrations how a variety of companies in a variety of industries approach social media, what they’re doing with it, and how they’re doing. It’s interesting because it features business-to-business marketing efforts as opposed to the consumer company efforts that tend to get more press. Maybe you’ll find an industry similar to yours in the mix. (Originally posted on socialmediab2b.com). CLICK HERE to read the article.

Early reports state that IE 9 is faster, has better support for HTML5 and CSS3, and seems better-tuned to the needs of the user than previous versions did. Taking UI cues from Google Chrome, Microsoft has streamlined the interface, making the browser less apparent and allowing the user to focus more on content. The addition of pinned websites makes accessing frequently accessed bookmarks faster and adds some great features by way of jump lists. IE9 also harnesses the PC’s hardware to accelerate graphics, videos and text. The result is that IE9 is able to render heavy graphic interfaces far better than even Chrome or Firefox.

While still a beta product, stay tuned, IE promises to be worth a second look.

Twitter introduced this feature mainly for the advertising aspect of things. However, you can surely follow your friends and co-workers without having a Twitter account as well. They wanted people to use it when they are out at a restaurant or at a bar and can subscribe to their Twitter accounts to receive promotions and special deals.

What do you think? Will you use this service?

When you do an image search, we find that it is typical that you will look through many pages of search results. So in the redesign of Google Image Search for mobile, available today for iPhone 3.0+ and Android 2.1 devices, we focused on making it easy to quickly see as many image thumbnails as possible:

• The thumbnails are square to maximize the number of images we can get on the screen at one time so you can scan them quickly
• You can swipe to see the next or previous page of results, or tap the large, stationary ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ page buttons
• We optimized for speed so that the images appear quickly when you browse

When it comes to viewing the images, we now make them as large as possible by introducing a special image viewing page:

• The black background emphasizes the image and the buttons fade after a few seconds so you can just see images with little distraction
• Easily browse through the images by swiping from picture to picture

Yahoo start’s new ad campaign to point out what it thinks Google isn’t enough of.