Yahoo! ad approval process stuck. New ads will not go live.

Today leaders of Internet industry in Poland share their insights on the Internet 2k8 conference, which is organized by Polish branch of IDG. The conference brought together top CEOs, marketers and clients under motto "Internet 2k8 - millions in the web".

Yahoo! made the announcement last Thursday in Buenos Aires: The new ads platform that is an essential part of Yahoo! USA and Europe since 2006 (codename: panama) will be ready to engage the Latin American market since next June.

Google has developed a video and updated the information on how and when to use their Geographical Targeting tool http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/where-in-world-is-your-site.html . While not optimal, those who have the currently supported domain configurations can benefit from localized targeting of their site and content.

Twitter Japan is open with Japanese language interface. You can also chose Japanese language option from existing Twitter home page. Twitter already have many Japanese users, and the users can Twit in Japanese characters.

Mark your calendar! The main event of the year in Search Engine Marketing: Search Engine Strategies (SES) Toronto is coming back again soon on June 16-18 2008. I will be there representing SEMPO Canada along with all representatives of the Canadian Search Marketing Industry. During SES, Ken Jurina & I will host an evening session to present the latest accomplishments within SEMPO Canada. For those who may not know, Search Engine Strategies is the premier event about Search Marketing (SEM) technologies and tactics and we are proud to have this show coming to Canada once a year.

Last week the major newspaper here has announced that Google wants to open an office in Costa Rica soon… but it wasn’t totally true. So, for some hours many people get focused over this small country called Costa Rica… But why?

The Argentinean Search Marketing Community will be celebrating the first meeting of the year tonight in Buenos Aires. This first event of the year would be a cool after office in the “Palermo Valley” neighbourhood in Buenos Aires....

Softbank and Human Capital KK of Japan conducted a salary survey with 100 Internet marketers and 100 Internet sales people in Japan. The results show that the average sales person in Internet industry makes 5.40mil yen/year (about US$53K) and average marketer in Internet industry makes 5.01mil yen/year (about US$50K).

Last week I’ve be present at the third edition of the EXPONET in Guatemala City. This is one of the best Latin-American event I’ve attend. Some of the best professionals from Argentina, Mexico & Guatemala talked about Web 2.0 and many more topics.