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Google and Help Documentation

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Google has over the last two years started a real effort to constantly improve and expand the help documentation for their products, and in that effort there have been several times where their documentation has resulted in broken links, not just for Google, but for thousands of webmasters as well.
Good news: Google is always updating [...]


mediaFORGE and Widgets For Affiliate Marketing

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

One of the highlights of WidgetWebExpo in New York was meeting Anthony Zito, President/CEO of mediaFORGE which is a great rich media company doing some impressive things in the widget ad world.
Anthony and I spoke at length about widgets, strategy, and upcoming possibilities. He is one of very few people I could discuss gadgets with [...]


Google to present at SEM Canada

Friday, June 20th, 2008

SEM Canada is an event I am looking forward to speaking at. I just spoke at WidgetWebExpo in New York, and I discovered that my wacky style goes over quite well, even among professionals.
As far as SEM Canada goes, Google will be sending Ariel Barden (Google Group Product Manager) who will speak on paid search [...]


Matt Cutts of Google Discusses Links and Widgets

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Eric Enge posted an interview with Matt Cutts of Google’s spam team.  Within the interview Matt addresses the issue of widgets, luckily I will be able to include this info into my session about widgets and seo.
Here is the widget part of the interview…
“Eric Enge: What are your thoughts on using widgets as a promotional [...]


WidgetWebExpo, er, Widget

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Here is a widget for the conference:

Or use the iPhone version with video streaming of the event. Find out more at the conference blog
Also of note, my comments are turned back on!


Google I/O Coverage - Part Four

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

The videos are coming out as are the slides for the Google I/O sessions. It is pretty cool that they are making some of the full presentations available.
I was going to be discussing Android today, but instead you can just watch the sessions themselves. Here is “An Introduction to Android” to get you started.

To see [...]


Google I/O Coverage - Part Three

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Google Apps Engine
Some quick answers to what Google Apps Engine offers, and why you might want to care about it.
A few months ago, Joyent (and Dell, and Facebook) announced free hosting (for a year) to budding application developers. These free servers were designed to scale and help developers who had applications which “took off” in [...]


SMX Coverage, Sorta

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

I was at SMX Advanced in Seattle basically to see some friends, and to discuss with a few trusted folks about my upcoming year. I didn’t really attend sessions, and as someone who didn’t attend sessions I discovered something. There were alot of people who didn’t attend sessions, but were there just to interact with [...]


Google I/O Coverage - Part Two

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

There was so much put out at Google I/O that it will likely take a while to discuss all my notes on it.
On the Google gadget front I learned an interesting thing (and also got a sweet Google code tshirt) at the visualization desk….
 There is a Google visualization gadget directory. Neato.
Also there has been extensive additions [...]


Google and Geo-Data

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Google has announced a new official blog for Geo-data. They also announced in their latest “friends” newsletter a significant feat…
Also, this month, we introduced rooftop geo-coding for 50
million homes and businesses in the U.S., which significantly improves
mapping accuracy. You’ll see that address searches in Google Maps will
now often return results with pinpoint accuracy.
There are a [...]