Archive for June, 2008
Google AdSense Turns Five Years Old
Google AdSense was formally announced on June 18, 2003. Now, it is five years old and still going strong. Within 2 days, WebmasterWorld had its own Google Adsense forum where people are talking about how Google AdSense has helped them.
In five years, some have been making enough to earn a decent living off [...]
Google Reconsiders "Incorrect Maps Location Marker" Reinclusion
In a Google Groups thread, a number of small businesses are noticing that their location marker isn’t quite on target; they would like to edit it out. In the past (and unfortunately I don’t have a screenshot), there was a feature that would enable users to “edit incorrect marker location.” (A similar feature is [...]
Screen Shots of More Google AdSense Fonts
Google has confirmed the Google AdSense Fonts tests as being tests at WebmasterWorld. Since then I have tried to compile some real world examples of these fonts in action. Thanks to a DigitalPoint Forums thread, I was able to find a new AdSense font. Here it is:
Compare that to the normal fonts:
Compare [...]
Google Says, Long URLs May Hurt You
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Finally, We Get an API for Google Webmaster Tools, But…
I can’t express how happy I am to see a real live API available for Google Webmaster Tools. The announcement came late Friday, telling webmasters and developers that they can now use an API to access and communicate data back and forth to Google for the Webmaster Tools portion of the site.
The tool supports [...]
Google Trends for Websites : Rather Not Have It? Seriously?
I had the honor of breaking the story on the Google Trends for Websites announcement. In fact, I was on a call with Sundar Pichai (VP, Product Management), R.J. Pittman (Director, Product Management), and Matt Cutts (you know him) of Google the day before. They showed me a tool that shows estimated traffic [...]
Changents: “Agents For Environmental Change Are the New Rock Stars”
If you use the internet on a daily basis you are slightly aware of its mysterious power to, basically, do everything you want. Everything you ever need is there, it helps you, you use it at your free will. But it’s not so easy to harness the internet’s power and channel it towards a greater [...]
Shelfari Relaunches (Again) with Better Search
Shelfari is a web-based social network that revolves around books. Here, you can share the books that are on your “shelf” in the virtual sense. We’ve had the opportunity to cover Shelfari in the past, including its relaunch last year, and thanks to its interface and friendly environment, I personally consider it a [...]
OneSpot Launches Publishing-as-a-Service Platform. What’s That?
OneSpot is a new content aggregation and redistribution system that is hoping to change the way in which web media is published. For site owners looking to provide more relevant content on their sites for their audiences, OneSpot doesn’t just collect the potential media and throw it at the site owners–it searches the web [...]
Brightcove 3: Guilding the Lilly
Brightcove is a video platform provider we’ve followed here at Mashable pretty much from its inception. Today they’re rolling out the announcement of the next version of their platform software. Brightcove 3, as it’s called, is a beta program giving users of the service access to a new version of the system with a number [...]