So Facebook had higher traffic than Google in XMAS 2009.  Hope Facebook asked Santa for more servers this year! I did notice that Facebook was rather slow all day on Christmas.  Happy Holidays to all of you this holiday season!

Facebook Beats Google : Most Visited Site on Christmas | Search Engine Journal.

Ok, I thought this was fake when I first heard about it last week. BUT it looks to be true.  Youtube now has a URL shortener!  Pretty cool! Makes it easier to tweet about of course!  Enjoy!

To use youtu.be manually, simply take a URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs and replace the”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=” with “http://youtu.be/” to get: http://youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs Plug that shorter URL into a browser, and you'll see it redirects to that video.

via YouTube Blog: Make Way for youtu.be Links.

And I am using it! So far, I like it a lot. It is faster and I am starting to play with a lot of the updates. Will report more on this later… but so far I give 2 thumbs Ups for Word Press 2.9 Carmen!

This is my favorite new tool from Google which just came out early Dec. 2009. – BROWSER SIZE – This page allows you to see which parts of your site are able to be seen by the smallest of browsers. I personally always design no WIDER than 1000px with a possible stretchy width beyond that. But this is a neat tool because it gives you insights into the DEPTH and where your headline goes or your call to action on the page. I just redesigned my whole header of my site after realizing things were too low.