About a year ago Google offered new referral program for Adsense – Firefox with Google Toolbar. If you referred people to download and install a fresh copy of Firefox with Google Toolbar, you would get 1$. There were also scripts like “Internet Explorer killer” that was showing banners to clients with Internet Explorer encouraging them to use Firefox. I`ve earned some bucks with this referral program, but lately I`ve noticed, that earnings have decreased pretty much.
Firefox 2.0 is out! Although not mentioned on www.mozilla.com (webpages still state 1.5 and RC versions), you can get a fresh copy using the link below.
A few extensions I use are not compatible with the new Firefox, but most work okay. The ones that do not work for now:
Nice articel/interview about Adobe Flash VoIp capabilities. Sharing camera has been available since Flash MX, but now they are really planning to implement in perfect condition, which will enable social network sites like myspace.com add VoIP and online conferencing features that people just thrive to use while it is new to the world. This just proves once again that Flash will stay here longer and Microsoft can keep their Apollo products in their shelves..
Read the full article here: Adobe Flash goes VoIP
Should I say more? Ok, it`s in beta but it already has at least 7.5million (content from partner library) books. Most I guess are just a preview with links where to buy, but still the preview is nicely done!
Visit: Google Books Search
Today I noticed two new Google products at Google Labs – Image Labeler and Related Links.
Google Image Labeler is like a game. You are connected with somone other on the internet and have to give labels for images. You get scored when you and your partner have guessed the same labels. Fun and something
The rumor is over, the deal has been accepted. Google bought YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars.
I really don`t care about their copyright problems as long as that doesn`t influence the end user. All videos should be for free!
By the way Google should buy Yahoo with it`s Flickr, as It`s a tough decision to choose between Flickr and Picasa for photo sharing. Now I decided to use Flickr (my Picasa album is full, and I cannot expand it from outside US) as Flickr is more flexible, but I know that someday Google will make Picasa better and better and someday we could switch..
In summer I created a website Celebrity Gossip. Time has come to move on. For that time I chose a domain name celebrity-gossip.org which was really for the keywords. Optimizing every single bit for keyphrase “celebrity gossip” soon I was #1 on MSN and got almost 1000 unique views daily from MSN Search alone. Time passed and MSN lost its users, so that still I was #1 on MSN but received only 20-100 unique visitors daily. But Google had increased importance of my site that I had ~1000 uniques per day.
IT JUST WENT LIVE!
Search public source code. We already know searching by filetype (e.g. “filetype:as” for actionscript files). Will this beat phpclasses.org and similar?
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Email protection comes to your mind whenever you`re writing something on the net. There is always caution for posting your e-mail address online as spam robots cruise your site and other sites that you leave comments on. While analyzing Google Groups I noticed a nice implementation of securing emails. When you post a message containing an email address (e.g. “denied@recordings.ru”) the email address is changed replacing part of it with “…” (e.g. “den…@recordings.ru”) where these dots are linked to “unlock” page where you enter letter/number code from distorted image. If it is correct, you are brought back to the previous page and see the email address normally. Pretty smart :)
(Sorry if this is old news :P)
I was reading some articles about Flash SEO (like this) and some of them recommended using SWFObject to make some text visible to search engines. The trick is that you put text in HTML format inside <div> layer and then you put your flash over it (SWFObjects javascript code changes innerHTML of the <div> layer). While this works and I am still using this technique at sites like djnet, the technique is also kind of cloaking – showing one text to search engine, other for the user. Spammers can implement this method in their sites and sooner or later Google will create algo that will ban these sites. And the good ones too.
While this problem persists, you can put TITLE and DESCRIPTION in your flash files – in Flash IDE choose Modify > Document (or Ctrl+J). This is the part that gets indexed by search engines. Though this is better than nothing, again using SWFObject hides the flash file from search engine, thus making this piece of metadata useless.
I`m still thinking of rebuilding my best project (djnet) in php, just for SEO purposes. But what I know fur sure is that search engines will try to give better support for Flash because it won`t go away in the nearest decade – Internet cannot live without Flash video (though internet should get rid of flash advertisments).
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