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.

Today, in the internet age, customer is truly the king. The networked world, whether social or professional, has given immense power to the customer to express himself and demand what he deserves.

If was given possibility to vote for SEPMO song or anthem, I would definitely pick one from Poetic Prophet. In just two minutes you can hear basics about SEM, SEO.

Since SES London 2008 started yesterday at London's Business Design Center, this will be our last Pre-SES London 2008 Interview, featuring Stefen Kaufman, Senior VP at Digitas.

More pre-SES London 2008 interviews from SEMPO. Today we introduce an email chat with Kevin Ryan, Vice President, Global Content Director, Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch - and organizer/host of SES London and the SES conference series worldwide.