You can now download upgrades (beta) for the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome, plus a “preview” of Internet Explorer 9. Following is a brief description of the new features for each.

Firebox 4 With Multi-Touch

On August 11, Mozilla released the third beta version of Firebox 4. The most exciting difference in Firefox 4 the utilization of Windows 7 multi-touch features which lets you flip through files or pictures; open, resize, move and close images and videos, and other touch screen capabilities.

Today I am having a guest blogger, Ricky Breslin, take over and discuss his specialty – lead generation. I love Ricky’s approach as it is very much like my own; no-nonsense and full of real examples instead of posting theories.

Theories suck.

Take it away Ricky …

Want to see the inside of actual lead generation campaigns, using real money, with a nice pretty little picture? I know, this will be really weird considering that people never use real numbers and only talk about fictitious “businesses” they run and how successful they are.

Okay, let’s have a little fun this morning. While this clip is totally awesome, it also proves that bad advice is everywhere. Know your source before you take action and always, always, always see Penn and Teller whenever you’re in Vegas!

Facebook has a new feature, Facebook Questions, which it envisions as being a valued place where people can get advice and product recommendations from friends and other members (blah blah blah). I know what you’re thinking—the web does not need another Yahoo! Answers. But hey, if Q&A sites like Aardvark, TripAdviser, and Quora are utilizing the Facebook network why shouldn’t Facebook?

Facebook Questions isn’t up yet, but below is an example of what it will look like. Facebook describes it as a cross between Yahoo! Answers and LinkedIn Answers, but as you can see from the image below, answers can reach Wikipedia-length proportions.

My Dad & I at my sister’s wedding in 2000.

My father passed away during the summer of 2003 and I find it hard to believe it has been nearly seven years. It seems like a lot longer than that. A lot has changed since my father died. My youngest son David was born, I’ve relocated to North Carolina and I have found peace in my life. There have been times that I’ve been happy in my life, but I can honestly say that right now, I’m the happiest I’ve been in my life. And what mostly sucks is he isn’t here to share it with.

Apple announced today at WWDC 2010 that Bing is now a search option for iPhone users. Presently, Google is the default search engine, but users can change that to Yahoo! via settings. As was just announced Bing has entered the mix, which will be of further interest to those targeting a mobile market.

BTW, the iPhone 4 release has been announced (June 15 for preorders).

Here are some questions which were posed to me recently …

1) In my experience, pinging is only for purpose of page indexing rather than getting backlinks, do you have similar experience or I am wrong?

I only use pinging for getting indexed. In terms of backlinks, you might be confusing “trackbacks” which have long been used as a form of “spam” to get backlinks.

2) I wonder where the new WordTracker get their data from? I do not think is from metacrwaler anymore. The new data counts look suspicious.

This isn’t an SEO post, but I have to go on a rant here because, well, I am blown away that companies continue to be “short sighted” even in a recession.

I went to upgrade my Pandora subscription (online streaming music) so it would be ad-free only to discover that they dont’ take the American Express card. Seriously? In this economy you are going to have a barrier to entry? Make doing business with you difficult? Unreal.

Okay, let’s face it, there are just some really weird and creepy people in this world, and for some reason, when it came to getting “common sense” … well, they were down the hall pounding on the side of the vending machine.

Perfect.

This guy, well, he is just an idiot. I would love to tell you I took this picture. It reminds me of when I worked at WordPerfect and company policy stated that you couldn’t look at porn at work because your co-workers may think it was offensive, so this guy drapes a blanket over his cubicle so no one can see the porn on his screen.