BrandlandUSA.com is not only on our own site, but syndicated to a half dozen other websites and blog aggregators, increasing our exposure beyond our core readers. BrandlandUSA now appears on the BlogBurst syndication network, so you might be seeing our posts on the Reuters and Chicago Sun-Times websites. In addition,MORE HERE

Visit our Facebook Application, Brands to Bring Back from BrandlandUSA.com; there you can vote on brands you miss, from F.W. Woolworth five and 10 cent stores to Tickle deodorant. Tee Hee. Tons of fun. If you like-ee, please visit us at BrandlandUSA.comMORE HERE

So this morning the Twitter site was flooded with folk saying that the Google search had been hijacked. Then, in about 10 minutes or so, the site was back up again. A few of the posts from twitter, from around 10:15 to 10:30 JesseNewhart HAS GOOGLE SEARCH BEEN HACKED!!!??? http://bit.ly/78VbMORE HERE

It is stunning to see the number of restaurants closing, both chain and not chain. We can’t help but to think that commercial real estate brokers are going to have to make some really hard decisions. Do we sit with an empty storefront or out-parcel for three years, or doMORE HERE

Yes, we found him at Dollar General, and we are sure he is a few more places. Read about it, and other former Ascendia Brands, at our main website, BrandlandUSA.comMORE HERE

Still wondering about our old deodorant friend Tussy That staple of 1970s tub time, Mr. Bubble, has found a new home at Minnesota-based The Village Company. Mr. Bubble was part of the consumer products portfolio of Princeton, NJ-based Ascendia Brands, which went bankrupt in August 2008. Mr. Bubble was partMORE HERE

This is some great marmalade. Tart and sweet. Visit kensingtonmarmalade.com/ BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard.MORE HERE

For this 2009 Super Bowl, advertisers like Coca-Cola and Heineken are planning notable commercials. Here are some of the ads to look for: Coke Zero: Pittsburgh Steeler Troy Polamalu takes on the starring role in “Mean Troy,” a new Coke Zero ad that puts an unexpected twist on the iconicMORE HERE

The brand of “Peter Max” still as strong as 1960s FORT MYERS – We heard the artist Peter Max this morning on WGCU 90.1, the public radio station in Fort Myin the winter home of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Max, of course, is one of the most famous commercialMORE HERE