Google Gadgets & SEO

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 [...]

I am in Brooklyn and everything I know about Brooklyn I learned from a Beastie boy song and I drank a few beers and it may just be me, but it seems as though I am damned good looking and everything is sparkle-ly.
Oh, the conference thing, WidgetWebExpo has a good mix of developers, advertisers, and curious [...]

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 [...]

WidgetWebExpo is coming up, but don’t just go there because you want to see me, there are other people too :) … 
Look for speakers from comScore and Forrester Research, as well as from Nokia, Motorola, Gigya, Clearspring, Sprout (my Hawaiian neighbors), MediaForge and more.
And let’s not forget widgets are like a start-up candyland, so naturally there are a few venture [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By some miracle I was awake when this conference began at 8AM (ouch), and I was impressed by the keynote. I am happy I made it to see it, I was thinking of skipping it.
Keynote Speech
The keynote, as I said was pretty good. In it, Google products were highlighted, but the real crowd pleaser was when [...]