Atlas Web Service founder Michael Gray was recently interviewed at Search Engine Strategies San Jose by WebmasterWorld CEO Brett Tabke and shared his thoughts on the current and future state of social media, commenting on Web sites such as micro-blogging service Twitter and social network aggregator service FriendFeed. During their interview Gray stressed the importance of being actively involved in social media. Over the course of their conversation Gray shared several points he considered to be of key importance about the present state of search engine optimization (SEO), including his thoughts about the recent search agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo.