Several new arrivals and departures this week: > From the gossip columns, Eric Schmidt is IN on Apple's board of directors, while search legend Danny Sullivan annouced on Tuesday that he's officially OUT of SES. The search community responded in full with support for Danny and questions about the future of Search Engine Watch. > SMO ("Social Media Optimization") is IN with web analysts, who over the past two weeks have come up with 17 definitions and a wiki page to describe the web 2.
0 term du jour. > But OUT of the "blog thing" is Microsoft, according to this post from ZDNet. > Yesterday, Myspace kicked MSN OUT of 3rd place, by sending .
03% more traffic to retail websites. > And on Monday, Google brought Apps for Your Domain INTO its growing basket of services. From today's headlines, IN: ITunes Movie Downloads are coming in September.
Google Image Labeler tries to creatively build tags to compete with Flickr. Pluto might be coming back thanks to a petition challenging last week's redefinition of "planet." OUT: Google's navigational SERPs may start listing competitors next to the destination site.
Intel is firing 10,000 employees - nearly 10% of it's staff!