Lively.com? What the F**k Is Google Thinking?
Remember Orkut? The social network might be popular in Brazil, but it is a tiny fish when compared to Myspace or Facebook.
Now we have Lively, a new virtual reality site which, as Andy Beal puts it, will be the the Orkut to Second Life.
My question? WHY?
As Google posts in their blog,
A while ago, I looked [...]
Google Just Won’t Launch What Matters - To Do List
I saw the story about Google launching Friend Connect. Cool. Yeah, whatever. My question is when are they going to finally plug the gaping hole in their Google Apps package: the to do list.
I am a Google whore. I love the company’s products. They are generally well executed. But, it just floors me that they [...]
Google Reader Gets Notes - And Its Kinda Stupid
I have been a long time user of Google Reader. It is really convenient for monitoring all the various blogs that I want to keep track of. It has some drawbacks (like not being able to nest folders), but one that Google decided to solve was a problem I didn’t even think was a problem.
Being [...]
Yahoo Strokes Google, Puts on Show for Microsoft
Yahoo is in a pickle. Microsoft is setting up for a hostile takeover of Yahoo and Yahoo is doing everything it possibly can to puff it’s chest and look valuable.
Part of this strategy is apparently to woo Google. Yahoo was to run a 2-week trial of running Google Adsense ads on the Yahoo properties. Yahoo, [...]
Google Adwords Also Does Radio, TV and Print
Most people think of Google Adwords as a search engine advertising medium. Then, of course, publishers get to set up on the other end as an Adsense publisher and make money on the receiving end. It works well, too, and I personally make 4 figures monthly using Adsense.
Well, Google is also getting in on radio [...]
Google Adjusts Click Spots on Adsense - Lowers CTR
Google has made a change to the clickable spots on their Adsense ads. The change might be good for the quality of their ad network, but it is not working out well for web publishers. In fact, Google is sacrificing revenue on their own to make this change.
Usually, almost the entire space of an Adsense [...]
Last Week In Short, OpenSocial, Google Mobile Alliance
Well, I did it again. It has been over a week since I posted here at WebbyOnline. Other than being extremely busy, you can head on over to PC Mechanic for the long story. The short version is that I began using a Mac last week. The conversion to Mac has not exactly been hassle [...]
Google Slaps Webmasters Around Using PageRank
There has been a lot of talk about Google going after paid links. In other words, if you sell links on your page, Google has a problem with you now. Well, it also appears as if Google is in the process of updating PageRanks. And a lot of blogs are all of a sudden finding [...]
Google+Jaiku = Important
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One thing that people in internet publishing need to watch is Google and it’s interest in the world of mobile technology. Google recently purchased Jaiku. Jaiku is a social platform very similar to Twitter, but even more focused on the cell phones. Google’s purchase of Jaiku, as well as talk of the upcoming [...]
Google Presents…
From Google’s official blog:
Starting today, presentations — whether imported from existing files or created using the new slide editor — are listed alongside documents and spreadsheets in the Google Docs document list. They can be edited, shared, and published using the familiar Google Docs interface, with several collaborators working on a slide deck simultaneously, in [...]
