Lazy Linkage - Google Buys Feedburner

So, looking out into the internet, what’s going on this week? For those of you who may be running a blog on Wordpress.com, something new is available to you. Wordpress has begun allowing folks with domains mapped to the service to now use email using their own domain, with Gmail as the email client. That’s [...]


Google Analytics Redesign = Simplicity

I logged into Google Analytics this afternoon and was greeted with a notice at the top of my screen telling me about the new format for the reports. When I clicked into one of my reports, I saw it was completely re-designed. I like what they’ve done with it.
I have used Google Analytics for [...]


Google’s Sense of Humor

I don’t have any particular proof of this other than an email I got yesterday from a guy over at PCMech, but it appears Google was playing an April Fool’s joke on the internet yesterday. According to the email, Google had this linked up on their homepage yesterday. So, its talking about free in-home wireless [...]


Google Pay-Per-Action Launches

Google has just launched a new service in Beta called Pay-Per-Action. Judging by the logo in the upper left, this is going to be some kind of sub-service of Google Adwords (and hence Adsense as well). The long and short of it can be gotten right off their site, namely: “Increase your advertising reach while [...]


Google Updates Their Adsense Policies

That’s right, Google has issued their 2007 update on policies to be followed by websites using Adsense. Of course, Adsense is Google’s contextual ad service where websites can place Google ads on their site and earn revenue. The revenue you can make from Adsense is pretty good in the scheme of things, so webmasters who [...]


What Did Google Do Right?

When I was in Russia recently, I didn’t have much to do over there. I spent some time in Korkino, a very small village in central Russia. For a guy who is used to a lot of activity and the hi-tech life (I guess I can call it that), I found myself more than a [...]