Archive for August, 2008
Eric Enge Interviews Maile Ohye of the Google Webmaster Central Team
Eric Enge interviewed Googler Maile Ohye relatively recently and provided an interesting summary of the interview on his blog. In the interview, Maile talks about the WebmasterTools API (especially with regards to extracting link data), using sitemaps for discovery, spam reports, paid links and PageRank, Flash indexing, and geographic targeting. Of particular importance [...]
Google AdSense to Be Migrated into Google Analytics
Are you a Google AdSense publisher? Do you have a Google Analytics account? If so, you may be in for a surprise, since there’s a rumor circulating that Google Analytics may soon include Google AdSense data. This information comes from thegooglecache.com (where the post has been pulled) and Amit Agarwal, and [...]
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 2008
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Does Apple Really Want To Be An Internet Censor?
I am sure that the folks in Cupertino thought the whole idea of the App Store for the iPhone would be a great idea and in fact has proven to be a great money maker. At the same time though it has also turned out to be one of their biggest headaches that just doesn’t [...]
4 Questions for Every Early Adopter
The battle lines have been drawn today. You’re with us or you’re against us. You’re cool and hip or lame and square. No, I’m not talking about political lines (for once), I’m talking about the early adopters versus the mainstream, or as Robert Scoble framed it: the passionates versus the non-passionates.
What, though, is a passionate [...]
Oriango Puts the Web in Alphabetical Order (The Startup Review)
Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
STARTUP DETAILS:
Company Name: Oriango
20 word description: Oriango is a Dictionary Style Search Engine. With Oriango [...]
12 Great Free Games for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Why should you put a dent in your wallet when there are so many great free applications out there for the iPhone and iPod Touch? There are tons of games for the devices, but the vast majority of them cost money, so we’ve sorted through and located 12 totally free ones for you to throw [...]
FriendFeed Adds Widgets; Its Path to Mainstream?
Lifestreaming service FriendFeed has launched a variety of widgets (available here) for showing off your activities on your own blog or website. The two most significant widgets are the Badge, which shows off all of the different services you’ve synced with the site, and the Feed Widget, which displays your most recent activities. [...]
John McCain Relaunches His Social Network. It’s Surprisingly Good.
The recently more Web-savvy John McCain campaign has re-launched its social network – McCainSpace – and it’s actually pretty good. The site is powered by KickApps, and includes standard social networking features like forums, groups, and plenty of user-generated content.
What’s impressive about the new McCainSpace is the viral potential it unleashes for the [...]
Zeep Mobile API Gives Site Owners Free SMS… With a Hitch
So you run a website and really like the social software that enables your visitors to interact with things you produce. But you want to take that connection with the crowd to a more mobile position. Perhaps you’d like some sort of arrangement which allows interested parties to send and receive messages to and from [...]