Archive for the ‘Fresh’ Category

May
16

Facebook not Happy with Google

As previously talked about today, Google's Friend Connect is on the talk of the town already. Facebook is getting ready to ...

May
09

Funny Ads Friday: Haiku? Woot?

Welcome to Funny Ads Friday! We will be showcasing funny ads found on AdWords. Today's funny ad is brought to ...

May
07

Facebook to Sell Out? Certainly Not.

In late 2006, there were some fees flying around the rumor mill of Google looking to acquire Facebook. So ...

Apr
29

Presentations and Spreadsheets Go Offline

Last week, the Google Docs team announced that Google Docs Presentations and Google Docs Spreadsheets will be available offline. Great feature? ...

Apr
17

Google Moves to #2 Again

Google was previously at #4, as a semi-shock, but today's Alexa shake-up moved Google back to #2 in world-wide traffic ...

Apr
15

Yahoo! Acquires IndexTools

The news hit the streets this morning. Yahoo! has acquired IndexTools. Why? Simple. Competition. Google acquired Urchin over three ...

Apr
05

The Dust Settles Around FCC Wireless Auction

As reported earlier, Google indeed lost the wireless spectrum auction. They lost, but the consumer won. Here is ...

Mar
30

NextWeb | NY Web 2.0 Meetup - March 31st 2008

I am part of the NextWeb | NY team who organizes the monthly NY Web 2.0 and Lunch 2.0 events. ...

Mar
29

Wordpress 2.5 Officially Launched!

For all those that are eagerly waiting for Wordpress 2.5, wait no longer! Wordpress 2.5 has arrived!! You can download your copy ...

Mar
29

Wordpress.org Redesign!

Wordpress.org is preparing for the 2.5 launch. With that preparation, Wordpress.org has been redesigned to fit more in line ...

Mar
28

Unofficial Google.vc

Google is normally very good about monitoring and obtaining all domains for the term "google", but this one squeezed by. ...

Mar
27

WordCamp Dallas 2008

Wordpress fans around the world, listen up! WordCamp Dallas 2008 is this weekend! Pack your bags, grab a ...

Mar
26

Eco-Safe Paper vs. Gmail Paper

Today in the Twittosphere (hmm is that a word? guess it is now) I noticed there was some talk of ...

Mar
26

Matt Mullenweg on Wordpress 2.5

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Wordpress, put out this screencast today. It's a quick preview of what Wordpress 2.5 ...

Mar
25

Join the Google Webmaster Team this Friday!

Adam Lasnik has extended an invitation for anyone with "...a phone (we'll pay for the call), a sufficiently-modern web browser, ...

Mar
25

Yahoo! to Support Google’s OpenSocial

Mashable reporter, Stan Schroeder, brings this one to us here at Google Inside. Yahoo! is said to be supporting ...

Mar
24

Interview with Bharat Mediratta About the Google Web Server

I have known Bharat Mediratta for a number of years now. We finally had the change to meet late ...

Mar
21

Google Loses, Verizon Wins 700mhz for $9.6bn

The FCC finally pulled through with the 700mhz frequency auction results. Google did not win. Verizon won the auction, with ...

Mar
20

SES NY 2008 Wraps Up - Good Networking, Good Conversations

SES NY 2008 has been a lot of fun. It's been exciting to see old faces that only make ...

Mar
18

Live.com Webmaster Dinner - SES2008

I was invited to a Live.com Webmaster Dinner last night. We had a great time and I'm really glad ...

Mar
17

New Search Algorithm for Yahoo?

Yahoo! filed for a patent last week which would allow the use of their algorithm to utilize personalized bookmarks as ...

Mar
17

See You at SES New York!

This week is Search Engine Strategies New York! I will be attending the conference on Wednesday, so if you ...

Mar
16

E. Factor Party in NY

This party invite comes from Stephanie Frasco. Hey everyone!! I want to personally invite you to the launch of E.Factor here in ...

Mar
16

IM-NY / BOTW SES Charity Party

I am a proud - card carrying member of IM-NY, and the group is a gathering of some of my ...

Mar
06

MashMeet DC REMIX was a Success!

Such a great event! We had a lot of fun and there were some great people there. Here's a short ...

Mar
03

Vote for Wordpress

Wordpress is a world-class blogging platform. It's not the first I started using, but it's certainly the best I've ...

Feb
28

Google to Provide Free Voicemail to SF Homeless

Google is partnering with the city of San Francisco, nearby their headquarters, to offer free voicemail to the homeless that ...

Feb
28

Spam, Spam, Go Away — and Never Come Back!

A deep and well-discussed topic has been coming up more and more lately. Comment spam. The item of comment spamming ...

Feb
27

Mashable Meetup Ends in Bar Brawl

This is old news, but here's my take! We had a Mashable.com FlashMashMeet this past weekend. It was ...

Feb
25

LinkShare Launches a New Publisher Dashboard

LinkShare has been using a very old [and clunky] dashboard for publishers for as long as I can remember. ...

Feb
25

Google Launches Summer of Code 2008

Google holds an annual Summer of Code event. Today, they announced the beginning of this year's event. Last ...

Feb
20

OpenAds is Now OpenX

OpenAds is a project/product that I've been actively using/involved with for a number of years. It first started out ...

Feb
18

Wordpress - It’s About Community, Not Code.

Looking back a few years, all the way back to July 2005, Forbes.com notes Wordpress as one of their B2b ...

Feb
15

Will the Real Digg Please Stand Up.

That's right. I think Digg sucks. It's purely a popularity contest. Wait, a contest? No, it's ...

Feb
15

Matt Mullenweg and Jeremy Zawodny Sit Down at Yahoo!

Earlier this week, we can thank Matt for the link [and interview]. Here's a great overview of what is going on ...

Feb
13

Google Images thinks Microsoft is Yahoo! Already

I was doing some image research for an article recently and had to take a second look at the results. ...

Feb
12

“I’m a Google Addict.”

Are you addicted to Google? Here are a few people that are.

Feb
07

The 50 Most Influential Headhunters in the World

Recently, BusinessWeek.com released an article that names the 50 Most Influential Headhunters in the World. My father was named ...

Feb
07

Microsoft Beefs up Virtual Earth with Caligari Acquisition

Microsoft is trying to become a serious competitor with Google. Microsoft has announced that they have acquired Caligari for ...

Feb
01

MacBook Air Prepared for Shipping

The most recent update on my MacBook Air shipment is that it's ready to be shipped! Call me crazy, but I'm ...

Jan
30

MacBook Air to Ship Earlier than Expected

MacRumors.com put out a notice of the Apple.com press release announcing that the MacBook Air's will start shipping today. ...

Jan
22

My Next Startup: ReadyToBeSold

So normally I wouldn't write about this, but I think it's important for everyone out there in the business world ...

Jan
18

FeedBurner Subscriber Count Skyrockets Thanks to FeedBlitz

I noticed yesterday that the subscriber count for Ginside jumped from an average of 230 all the way up to ...

Jan
11

Google’s Master Plan

Ever think about what Google has planned for the future? Here's a glimpse to what Google might be thinking ...

Jan
08

Blu-ray, Green-ray, HD-DVD, LowDef-DVD…WHO CARES?!

There has been a ton of coverage lately about Blu-ray and HD-DVD (high definition DVD). A lot of people ...

Jan
06

Google Wants You [to use their APIs]

As part of Google's New Year's resolutions, the development team wants more publishers to start using Google APIs. In fact, the ...

Jan
02

Top 10 New Google Earth Features 2007

Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog brings us this one. Here's a small recap of what he suggests ...

Dec
30

New Look, New Year, New Happenings

You may have or may not have noticed that we have a new design around here. It's been a ...

Dec
20

Foxtrot’s Jason Wins Again

I can't recall the exact day this was published, but I know it's old. I was scavenging through old ...

Dec
04

Comic: Dogbert’s Tech Support

I don't know about anyone else, but this one hits home to me...therefor I'm posting about it. Enjoy!

Nov
27

Google Walks the Plank

The following article is an anti-AdSense publication produced by Google Inside. As of November 15th, Google changed their AdSense "Click Area" ...

Nov
14

Microsoft Bought Massive Inc., Now What?

Microsoft acquired Massive Inc. coming on two years ago. What have they done with it? Not much as ...

Nov
10

GOOG Aborts the $700 Stock Plan

As I've been watching GOOG stock for the past couple of days, I've noticed some huge drops. Both Thursday ...

Nov
07

Live.com’s Webmaster Portal

Microsoft's Live.com is adding to the search engine competition with their own webmaster portal. Yahoo! has given it a ...

Nov
01

Google Stock Breaks $700

Yesterday morning, somewhere around 9am EST, Google's stock broke the $700 barrier. Just as many people had predicted, it ...

Oct
24

Google Finance is Missing Out

Google Finance is a great resource. It's basic and gets to the point. But what is seriously missing is an ...

Oct
22

Matt Cutts Doesn’t Respond to E-mail Anymore

So there have still been some things on my mind about paid links and that whole situation. I thought, "what ...

Oct
19

Mario Brothers Taking over Google’s Office

Google had a lot of fun with this one. An all-out contest [between the offices] of the best theme.

Oct
17

Zillow.com’s Vanessa Fox with Lee Odden

Here's a great interview with Vanessa Fox (I hope you've gathered by now that I'm obsessed a huge fan of ...

Oct
09

Google Expected to Break $700

Google stock broke $600 yesterday, with an all time high of $610.26. Of course, the price made another breaking ...

Sep
25

Microsoft Looks to Facebook after Yahoo!

Microsoft has been looking around for somewhere new to spend their money. After spending USD$6 billion with the acquisition ...

Sep
18

Apple’s iCar in the Works?

According to various sources around the web, Apple ("AAPL") and VW ("VLKAY") are in talks about co-creating the new ...

Sep
07

gPhone News Updates

"Google may be preparing a new mobile platform, a would-be rival to the Nokia-dominated (NOK) Symbian OS, Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows ...

Aug
14

Domain Squatting: Goggle.com Shows us How

Domain squatting is one business model which some companies choose to completely focus on. For example, such a company ...

Aug
10

Google Storage Details

Google released storage information recently about Google Accounts. Take a look at the screenshot below to see what I'm ...

Aug
08

Top Google Secrets Discovered at Google NYC

While visiting Google NYC yesterday, I looked around at all their top secret white-boards and all their mind mapping ideas ...

Jul
14

Special Movie Search - Bourne Ultimatum

I just saw an ad for the third Matt Damon Bourne Identity film. I am a huge fan of ...

May
19

Google Launches New Interface Features

As expected, Google has launched their new interface. We have seen Google testing the new interface throughout Google.com and ...

Apr
09

Sogou Not so Pleased with Google

Sogou.com, a Chinese search engine, complained that Google was using its data to input Chinese characters into copy. Google was more ...

Mar
27

Google Introduces New Products into the Google Pack

Google announced today that they are releasing new applications as part of their Google Pack. So what does it come with ...

Mar
15

Microsoft Playing Catch-up with Adobe and Macromedia

Microsoft has dabbled in the web creation industry in the past with Microsoft Office Frontpage and Publisher, but they haven't ...

Mar
12

Google Partnership Roundup

Here's a quick roundup of all the Google partnerships currently active*: Google and... IBM (source) NBA Dow Jones CBS Vodafone Friendster Nasa (source) Teach for America (source) BSkyB Bharti Airtel Dell (source) Sprint ...

Feb
15

Dr. Google at Your Service

A coalition of companies including Cisco, Dell, Google, Intel and Microsoft have banded together to let physicians write prescriptions over ...

Feb
12

Google Partner Pages

Last night, well rather this morning at 1:45am when I should have been sleeping but I was up late...playing games ...

Feb
03

Google Translation Made Easy

Google has one tool that lets you easily translate using Google translation. It's built on the Google Desktop platform. ...

Feb
01

The Master Plan of Google

This one comes straight from the UK. Masterplanthemovie.com is full of insights of the future of Google, but only from a ...

Feb
01

Google’s New Datacenter in North Carolina

A little over a week ago, Google announced that they will be building a new datacenter in North Carolina. ...

Jan
29

Google Reviews

Google Reviews. I wasn't even sure what to categorize this one as. As I was doing some snooping ...

Jan
01

Google in 2007

So what will Google look like in 2007? The question of the year. Google did some great things in 2006, ...

Dec
19

You Donate, Google Will Too

According to the Checkout blog, Google will donate $10 to their list of nonprofit partners after you donate $30 or ...

Dec
14

The Google Stock Exchange

The plan will allow non-executive employees to sell vested stock options through an online-auction exchange. Financial institutions will be able ...

Dec
09

Google and Teach for America Partnership

Teach for America (TFA) and Google have teamed up. Our partnership enables college grads to get real-world experience and to bring ...

Dec
02

Choose From the Catalog via Google

Something I surely never knew about was Google Catalogs. Ever wish you had signed up for that subscription to ...

Dec
02

Google Co-op — No Where to be Found

As I was looking over my Google Account and the services available to my specific account, I decided to go ...

Nov
30

The Meaning of Life: Google

This one actually comes from my dad -- thanks pops!

Nov
29

Google Not Wanting to Answer

Google Answers has been an ongoing project of Google for four years now. It's finally come time to shut ...

Nov
29

The Booming Tech Industry

Google Inc., the world's most-used Internet search engine, expects as much as 40 percent of business transactions to be conducted ...

Nov
29

Inventory Low, Time to Stock Up

Stated from MercuryNews.com, Mountain View Internet company Google dropped 4 percent after a Barron's article over the weekend said the Internet-search ...

Nov
29

No Google for Italy

In a recent e-mail flying around, it's come up that Google has seen some outages in Italy recently. Nothing ...

Nov
17

Yahoo and Google battle over the net

Over the net in a tennis sense. Yahoo and Google battled for the 1st annual tennis championship between these ...

Nov
06

Doodle 4 Google UK Winners

There was a competition held in the UK where Google wanted users to submit what the UK meant to them ...

Nov
02

Google Acquisitions Timeline

John Battelle points out a nice AJAX timeline of Google's recent acquisitions in the past years. Lays out all ...

Oct
31

Google Analytics API

Yeah right, I wish it was out. But I was thinking about some SEO software and how it might ...

Oct
31

Google Halloween!

Get your doodle on! >

Oct
30

Flying Somewhere Today?

Thanks Rusty for the tip on the DP forums: I found this humorous so I'd thought I'd throw it out there.

Oct
24

Google Is Smart

All I can say is that Google is smart. I was just doing a quick lookup of an area code to ...

Oct
21

Google Resource Roundup

Essential Blogs Inside AdSense Inside AdWords Official Google Blog Blogger Buzz Webmaster Central Forums AdSense Forums AdWords Forums Analytics Forums Great Help Pages Webmaster Help Center Analytics Support Center AdSense Topics

Oct
17

Google Slack’ed Off

Time to pick up the pieces for Google. After announcing over a year ago of their software called "Slack", ...

Oct
17

Time to Sync Up

Lifehacker wrote an awesome article about how to sync up your links between computers. Definitely worth a mention here ...

Oct
14

AdWords / AdSense Down for Maintenance

The AdWords account interface is temporarily unavailable due to system maintenance. AdWords is expected to be down from approximately 10:00 ...

Oct
12

Apple Tries Click-to-Call

We already know that Google did not stop the use of Click-to-Call, so on that note, here's a little story ...

Oct
10

10 Commandments to Link Building

Brandon has some really good and straight to the point tips about link building for your website. http://www.isedb.com/db/articles/1534/...

Oct
09

Google’s Dirty Little Secrets

Cristian Mezei has some good pointers to the secrets of Google. Part One Part Two I won't touch on it at all, but ...

Oct
08

Click-to-Call is…Back Up?

From what I've been reading around the blogosphere, it seems that the Official Google Blog had been hacked due to ...

Oct
07

Click-to-Call-to-Cancel

Looks like Google is cancelling their upcoming project of Click to Call (C2C). After concientiously considering, Google has decided not to ...

Oct
07

Google Book Search Pays Off

So a lot of publishers and authors were pretty mad at Google for scanning copyrighted material, but there's another side ...

Oct
02

Google Acquires Its Home

After celebrating its 8th birthday, Google decided it was time to do something special. What better way than to ...

Sep
26

Interview With Matt Cutts

Need I say more? Here's the link. http://battellemedia.com/archives/002917.php

Sep
23

Complete List of Google Services

I was just checking my GMail a few minutes ago and thought I would check out all the services for ...

Aug
09

Google Dance V Pics

Loren from Search Engine Journal was nice enough to bring back some pics from the dance. You should check ...

Jul
26

And the Winners Are…

Cliff Schmidt - Best Legal Eagle - Apache Gervase Markham - Best Community Activist - FireFox Julian Seward - Best Toolmaker - ...

Jul
18

Set Your WiFi to Roaming, Here Comes Google!

Lots of new articles are popping up everyone that are talking about the new Google WiFi being active in Mountain ...

Jul
12

Websense Uses Google Too

InformationWeek.com reports that researchers within the Websense company have started to figure out how to determine malware from within the ...