Microsoft and Yahoo Search Partnership

• Mashable: Microsoft on Yahoo Deal: "Nobody Gets It"
• Paidcontent.org: Reports: Microsoft, Yahoo Reach Search Partnership; No Upfront Payment

Social Media Reading - 062509

• Ballmer: Traditional media will disappear within 10 years - Microsoft CEO's told a group of advertisers in France that in 10 years everything will be online. Newspapers, magazines and TV programs will all be replaced by online programming.

• Budget Constraints May Kill Some Serve America Act Programs - Programs that are getting cut include two fellowships to encourage volunteers over 55, a program to help small and medium non-profits with management issues, and a program to program grants to college for community services programs. President wants to spend $10-million to help non-profits recruit and manage volunteers.
  

Tips and Tricks

• Twitter SEO - The Slow Death of Twitter Hash Tags - Are Twitter hash tags coming or going. This blog talks about the benefits of using hash tags but also how they are being abused.
• Using a Twitter Destktop Client to Organize Your Twitter Experience - Blog author recommends TweetDeck as a desktop client to use and lists the benefits of the application.