Search engine, digital marketing and Kansas City Tweets for the week ending November 27, 2009.

• [Hey, we didn't get one!] Promoting its Travel Community, Bing hands out 1000 gift cards at BOS and SEA airports. http://bit.ly/8vApJR
• Kansas City’s YRC Worldwide fights hard to avoid bankruptcy. http://bit.ly/6jiDRn
• It’s only one month, but what to make of Twitter flat numbers vs. blogging’s growth? TechCrunch: http://bit.ly/6JXoOs
• [Better call our stock broker!] Facebook creates Class A and B stock shares. Is a Google-like IPO on the horizon? NYT: http://bit.ly/87zOEM
• Search Engine Land: ‘Yahoo’s Search Box Gets Smarter’ with new features for Search Assist. http://bit.ly/4AyHc9
• Avinash Kaushik on Twitter analytics: ‘be a lot more critical when you think of analyzing these new media channels.’ http://bit.ly/7Lpo5J
• Jeff Jarvis: ‘News Corp. leaving Google would be a mosquito bite on an elephant’s ass.’ http://bit.ly/7iVuwF
• AdWords: ‘Experimentation Is Worth the Risk.’ In 2010, try Website Optimizer, YouTube Insight, Display Ad Builder. http://bit.ly/6nmYqT  
• In 2010, 75% of small businesses will increase email marketing, 70% will increase social media spend. eMarketer: http://bit.ly/7F80uN
• ‘Using Texts to Encourage Healthy Habits.’ Reminders for meds and sunscreen, STDs and sexual health. Dobies Healthcare: http://bit.ly/5wFWPG  
• Google Wave is changing journalism with town squares, engagement, content planning, embedded blogs. Mashable: http://bit.ly/7VNyIR  
• We look at Joomla Tabs and Slides plugin, allowing for ‘multiple content items to be displayed in the same window.’ http://bit.ly/5zl0xx  
• Wikipedia losing editors ‘in droves,’ harder to edit, unwelcoming to new content and cntributors. WSJ Digits: http://bit.ly/5How80
• ‘Our new identity is uniquely dynamic.’ AOL is now Aol. with a period, like Yahoo! with an exclamation mark. http://bit.ly/7sVV5H  
• Danny Sullivan: If Murdoch blocks Google from indexing, should Google block News Corp. from searching? ‘OPEC for News.’ http://bit.ly/8Rnxiq
• Mashable: Will Google Wave transform journalism? Fostering engagement, town squares, content planning, embedding blogs. http://bit.ly/7VNyIR
• A weekly Roundup of our digital marketing Tweets. Group 3 Solutions blog: http://bit.ly/78TEKd
• Chiefs win! Kansas City has now surpassed last year’s victory total.

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