Google’s latest acquisition is the popular twitter-like site Jaiku. I am a user of both Twitter and Jaiku and have enjoyed participating on both sites. Although Twitter has been the most popular micro-blogging site, this news from Google may eventually change that, or at least bring greater growth to Jaiku and put it in [...]
Via Pronet Advertising I found out that Google is now offering Feedburner’s premium services, MyBrand and Stats PRO, for free. This is great news for all Feedburner users, including myself. I guess this was to be expected since Google has become so successful by offering so many great services in the past for free.
I love Google Reader’s trends feature, which allows you to see statistics about your reading habits. Here is a list of the top 20 blogs I have been reading over the past 30 days. The numbers are the total amount of posts I read and the percentage of all posts I read. John Chow dot Com [...]
I love RSS technology because it empowers its users to consume content in a much more efficient manner. Instead of having to go to each individual one of our favorite websites or blogs to see any new content, and run the risk of wasting our time if there is no knew content, we can be [...]
A couple months ago I noticed that I had subscribed to almost 200 feeds on bloglines. Although they were all good blogs I realized that I had been avoiding checking up on them simply because it seemed a bit daunting to login to bloglines and see that I had hundreds of unread items. As a [...]
This is probably old news to those of you that keep up on search related news, but I thought it was worth mentioning for those who haven’t heard yet. Google has finally made an algorithm change that has essentially killed the Google Bomb. For those who don’t know, Google Bombing is a tactic used to [...]
What lies ahead in the Internet World in 2007? Below are my three predictions of Headlines we will see during the coming year along with my justification for such predictions. Google Buys Digg for $200 Million Despite much criticism recently, Digg continues to grow. Google does not currently own a site like Digg, so Digg would fit [...]
In my last post I blogged about a new report out called The Death of Adsense. I anticipated that it would become fairly popular so I set out to get my blog post ranked in Google for the term “The Death of Adsense” and added an affiliate link to the post so that I would [...]
Is Adsense dead? I just read a free report called The Death of Adsense. The author explains why adsense is no longer as big of a money maker as it used to be. He then goes on to give some background information about himself to show why he is an authority on the subject and [...]
Google announced yesterday that they are now offering free web analytics. I was extremely pleased to hear this. While I have not been actively looking for it I have hoped that I would find some good free web analytics tools and now my hopes have been realized. I just set-up an account and put the tracking [...]
