Google Gadgets & SEO

I am on twitter now if you are so inclined.

I am getting on a flight to Chicago this morning (the 29th), I should be there at least a couple of days.
Feel free to email me if you are in Chicago and want to meet. The evening of the 30th I am doing something and the business day of the 31st I am doing something, [...]

Carolyn (pictured with me to the left) and David will be speaking in Chicago on the 30th of July.
Unfortunately for them, I just happen to be going to Chicago to attend the Google App Engine Hackathon the next day and will be in Chicago, long story short…
The drunk guy is showing up
The session [...]

Kalalau is a beach and it is a valley.
First and foremost thing I have to say is don’t mistake Hawaii as American. It is a different land and a different culture. Respect the land and respect it’s people. If you do not have respect for it, Kauai won’t respect you. And you will know it. [...]

Google will hold this in Chicago July 31st. I should be there (there are tshirts)….

What: Google will be holding a Chicago developer event for Google App Engine!

Learn about Google App Engine: We will have talks on the major features of Google App Engine at different points throughout the day. We will run through developing an [...]

If the theme usage numbers reported by iGoogle are correct, then iGoogle has reached 100 million users.

That is alot, and means Marisa Myers can start saying “over a hundred million users” to me instead of the old and drab “ten’s of millions” that she has always said to me when I ask her for [...]

Quick and friendly piece of advice NBC. You and anyone else creating Twitter accounts that don’t do anything will likely see problems down the road.

Creating URLs simply to have links is a no no. Do you have something to distribute with this?
If you do have stuff, then Twitter away. If not, you are being shortsighted.
Unused [...]

Terms like semantic web, the social graph, and machine readable link relations are things that people in SEO and marketing typically sorta know about but don’t have a clear grasp on. I want to quickly explain a couple of terms and concepts that are part of the social future of the web and how link [...]

Both Greg Sterling’s article and the Wall Street Journal article about this same subject suggested that Google will allow preroll ads on YouTube merely for revenue reasons, I disagree. I don’t believe Google is just fighting for YouTube revenue.
I believe Google is fighting for an entire new ad revenue sector and for the survival of [...]

Let’s get started…

If you know how to add and move furniture already, you can skip most of these steps.
To add a video you must have something to show the video on, like a TV or movie screen. This tutorial will step you through how to do this.
Add items
Using your cursor, click on the add [...]