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 [...]
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 [...]
Lively is Google’s new 3D virtual world with social aspects.
Here is what a room looks like embedded on a page…
To try Lively out for yourself, just enter the above room (you will be asked to login with Google), and look around.
Or go straight to Lively.com
Note: The login window from Lively gadgets do not have a [...]
With iGoogle updating to different people at different times, it might seem there could be problems with viewers being able to be use the gadget correctly.
The iGoogle blog article with the solution for this explains that with just an extra content div you can solve this. While the article concentrates on gadgets you are updating [...]
Danny Sullivan wrote an article about putting humans back into search results. He mentioned how search engines are already using human behaviors in ranking, but I want specifically talk about the latest four places Google uses human factors, and introduce the next place I feel they will do so (gadgets in results).
As a reference, Google [...]
During Widgetwebexpo, I noticed that there was alot of discussion about paid spread of widgets and almost none about organic spread of widgets. This caused me to change my presentation. There were companies represented there and widget teams that I felt could really benefit from some simple techniques of how to spread a gadget. So [...]
Recently Barry Schwartz highlighted the new iGoogle layout, and how it has started to be released to limited users.
I just wanted to add to that and mention that the new iGoogle layout and features can be seen by anyone via the iGoogle sandbox and is available to developers who request to be included.
To use the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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