Archive for the ‘Xtra’ Category

May
14

Comics: Unsuccessful Management (Dilbert)

After recapping on some of the comics lately from Dilbert, this is a great way to not step up into ...

May
10

Unsuccessful Marketing on Facebook

I have noticed recently that more and more folks are adding me on Facebook simply because I'm in the industry. ...

May
08

Video: How Google Really Works

Have you ever wondered the technical details behind how Google works? This is a great video which explains everything. But ...

May
05

Happy Cinco de Mayo from Google Inside

A happy Cinco de Mayo to everyone! You can read more about the Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of ...

Apr
18

Video: The Microsoft Sales Team Rocks!

This video was supposedly passed around internally around Microsoft. My response was, "hm," after watching the video.

Apr
18

The Next Mahalo Daily Babe

Here's a daily clip pick for Google Inside today. Our very own, Leora Zellman. Have a watch and ...

Apr
16

Forbes on Microsoft’s aQuantive Acquisition

Forbes published an article this morning that talks about how Microsoft's acquisition of aQuantive, made a year ago, could have ...

Apr
15

Hello Worl..errr IRS.

Do not forget to wave to the IRS. Today is tax day for everyone in the United States of ...

Feb
18

Google Blogging is Popular

Christophe compiled a great list of unofficial and official Google blogs. It's a great list, so head over and ...

Feb
13

Video: Image Resizing by Seam Carving

Thanks for passing this on to me James. Here is an amazing video of how use new technologies to resize images.

Feb
05

Buy.at Affiliate Network Acquired by AOL

AOL has been fairly quiet on the acquisition side of things. This move, to acquire Buy.at's affiliate network and ...

Jan
15

MacWorld 2008 Keynote Continued

This is a pretty impressive Keynote by Steve Jobs. Please note that this it not the compete transcript but rather bits ...

Jan
11

Yahoo! Directory Adds Images to Sponsored Links

Yahoo! has added images to their sponsored ads in their directory. I used to have a listing there, but ...

Jan
11

This is How You Get Traffic

Ever wondered how to generate a lot of traffic in a short amount of time? Let's take a look ...

Jan
10

Attorney General Cuomo Launches Antitrust Investigation of Intel

This just got passed to me from James, I feel it's worth noting (since the processor in my computer right ...

Jan
03

How to Become a Social Rock Star (without knowing it)

Megan McCarthy of Wired Magazine touches on how to become a social rock star. I noticed this a few weeks back, ...

Dec
20

Gallery2 Hack: main.php -> index.php

I have been trying and trying to figure out a way to use index.php instead of main.php for my Gallery2 ...

Dec
18

Google to Compete with Wikipedia

Google announced last week that it is creating a competitor to Wikipedia. Here is a small excerpt from the ...

Dec
17

Eminem is the Real Slim Shady

Often times I will use Google Images search just for kicks and giggles on certain things I'm doing throughout the ...

Dec
17

Blogger Now Accepts OpenID Commenting

Blogger recently did some testing and published the new feature to allow OpenID users to login and comment. This ...

Dec
11

The Untold Gmail Stories

Some of the untold Gmail stories, in a single clip. Here's a quick wrap-up from some Gmail software engineers.

Dec
07

Paul Potts’ Amazing Opera

All I can say for this one is... wow. He has an amazing voice.

Dec
06

Update: Larry Page to Marry Lucy Southworth this Weekend

A quick update from Radar gives us all the latest details on the wedding this coming weekend. Larry Page ...

Dec
06

PubCon + SES Chicago … and I’m in New York!

This is what I like to call being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm here in NYC while ...

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!

Dec
02

SNL: The iPhone

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the iPhone.

Nov
25

The Bloggers’ Strike

This one comes courtesy of Photomatt (Matt Mullenweg). Thanks for the humorous clip Matt ;)

Nov
15

LinkRush: November 15th, 2007

It's a small link rush today, but here are some quicky links for some highlights of today so far. YouTube to ...

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
13

…Goin’ to the chapel…with Larry Page

As the Chronicle has learned, Larry Page is set to get hitched next month. Where? No one knows ...

Nov
09

Paid Links Presentation for Web Analytics De-mystified

This past week I was given the opportunity to give a short presentation on paid links. Here is the presentation which ...

Nov
08

WARNING: Spam Will Eat You Alive [privacy]

As I've noticed more and more lately, I've been getting spam for my comment email address. I normally have ...

Nov
03

Wordpress Security Whitepapers

BlogSecurity.net has released its "How to secure Wordpress" whitepapers, released as the first version [1.0]. Wordpress security is something I have ...

Nov
01

Video: Cheerleader Gets Run Over By Football Team

Please do not try this at home.

Oct
30

LinkRush: October 30th, 2007

It's time to update from all the latest news going on around the web. Here are some noteworthy articles ...

Oct
19

Improving Office Morale, One YouTube Video at a Time

This feels a lot like my office. I have co-workers constantly sending me YouTube videos, funny pics, you name ...

Oct
18

Google Strongly Supports the Joomla! CMS

As it's pretty clear by the title, this announce comes in the form of an event. Google, as we ...

Oct
15

Video: Back Street Boys Cockatoo

A co-worker passed this on to me and couldn't pass up the opportunity to share it with everyone here.

Oct
08

Video: Red vs. Blue - Halo 3

I passionately love Red vs. Blue, so here's a quick clip of it.

Sep
26

LinkRush: September 26th, 2007

A quick list wrap-up of things to note throughout the past week. AdSense for search launches in Vietnamese New CPA bidding product ...

Sep
17

Following TechCrunch 40

Here are some TechCrunch links for those of you not following TechCrunch 40. TechCrunch 40 Session 1: Search & Discovery Yahoo Presents ...

Sep
17

Yahoo! to Take on Facebook and MySpace

Yahoo! is once again at it trying to take on the big dogs. The question that first comes to ...

Sep
15

Are We Using Web 1.0 or 2.0?

I have a feeling that this happens far too often in older businesses. I've seen some companies around that ...

Sep
12

Google’s Webmaster Central on Duplicate Content

Duplicate content is an issue I'm trying to battle right now myself. It's been on my mind about Wordpress. ...

Sep
10

I Am Most Like Matt Mullenweg!

So I've been a fan of reading up on Matt's blog lately through the Wordpress Planet feed in my dashboard ...

Sep
09

IBM Blogs Throw a Mean Curve Ball, 404 Style

Some how I ended up browsing IBM's website tonight and started cruising around. I finally noticed they had some ...

Sep
03

The Google Master Plan

I watched this video quite a while ago and it has actually made me more aware of my privacy. ...

Aug
16

404 Done Right

Surfing around today, I came across a page on the UrbanOutfiitters.com website. Well, I sort of came across it. Taking ...

Aug
16

Clouded Search

As a little experiment, I used this tag cloud generator to create this little tag cloud below. What's the ...

Aug
10

Video: Shoes

Aug
04

Before and After: Broadband vs. Dial-up

Many of us remember the days of dial-up Internet. Connecting at 14.4k, 28.8k, then 56k. Even some of ...

Jul
27

Video: The Muffin Man

uhhh, what on earth?

Jul
27

Comics: Dilbert Motivation Buzz Kill

So what can we learn from this? There's a bit of office management involved here. The obvious of, "don't give ...

Jul
27

MediaWhiz Holdings Acquires AuctionAds

NEW YORK, NY, July 27, 2007 –MediaWhiz Holdings Inc. today announced the acquisition of AuctionAds (www.auctionads.com). MediaWhiz launched AuctionAds ...

Jul
26

Business.com Sold for USD$360 Million

Reports are coming in from Reuters that Business.com was recently sold for upwards of USD$340 to USD$360 million to Donnelley ...

Jul
16

Video: Flea Market Montgomery

A have-to-watch video.

Jul
12

Wordpress, 9th Best Download on the Internet

According to the Google results for the term "download", Wordpress is ranked #9 out of 800 million results. There are some ...

Jul
12

WordCamp 2007 - July 21 & 22

This 2-day conference will cost you a whole whoppin' $25 to get into. There are a few items I feel are ...

Jul
02

OpenDNS Search Techniques

I recently started using OpenDNS again because I was unhappy with the speed of the current DNS that Time Warner ...

Jun
20

Technorati Interface Redesign

Technorati has been for a long time, gone un-redesigned. They have been using their old design since...let's take a ...

Jun
11

Vote for Wordpress at CNET WebWare 2007 Awards

This blog is proudly powered by Wordpress. Millions of other blogs are also powered by Wordpress which is astonishing ...

May
30

Ships Passing Through the Nights

There has been a lack of posting lately, but let me explain a bit. I recently moved from Los Angeles to ...

May
09

Favorite Tech Quotes

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. - Andrew S. Tannenbaum Where is all ...

May
03

Joost Invites - Beta

I was invited to Joost today. The brand new revolutionary free online television system. If anyone wants an ...

Apr
27

Save Net Radio

I'm an avid fan of Digitally Imported radio (www.di.fm) and I listen to it almost everyday. As part of ...

Apr
19

LinkRush: April 19th, 2007

Google introduces the new Google Product Search Google adds charts to Google Spreadsheets Philip writes on Paid Links Google holds 79% of the ...

Apr
17

On Paid Links

Something that was mentioned last week at SES NY was Paid Link advertising. Matt Cutts wrote up an article ...

Apr
04

Video: The Starting Line

Ironically, I know almost all these guys from school. I thought it was pretty funny and funny enough to ...

Apr
04

Ginside.com Site Problems

Our server underwent a php/apache upgrade over the night and it seems the upgrade to php is causing some major ...

Apr
01

To Post or Not to Post. That is the Question.

Turns out I just can't stay away from what's happening with Google. I met with some friends this morning for breakfast ...

Mar
29

Time off to Singapore and Sri Lanka

I'll be out of town tomorrow to the end of next week while I'm visiting Singapore and Sri Lanka. ...

Mar
29

HOWTO: Migrating from Blogger to Wordpress

I couldn't write it any better, especially since I don't use Blogger myself, but here is an awesome HOWTO guide ...

Mar
20

Video: How do you Fit in?

(direct link) This video actually moved me and made me think about the world out there. It's something I've never ...

Mar
19

LinkRush: March 19th, 2007

Here are some key highlights you may have missed recently... Google launches Rebang for China Google to stop storing users' data after ...

Mar
17

Summer of Code 2007 Kick-off

Summer of Code 2007 has officially kicked off as of Thursday, March 15th, 2007. What are some of my favorite projects ...

Mar
15

Cisco Acquires WebEx to Further Collaboration

Announced today was Cisco's acquisition of WebEx -- an industry-leading company that dominates in on-demand group collaboration applications. Before ...

Mar
14

Fwd: FW: alien abduction

ATTENTION ALIENS ARE COMING TO ABDUCT ALL THE GOOD LOOKING AND SEXY PEOPLE. YOU WILL BE SAFE, I'M JUST EMAILING ...

Mar
12

Comics: Garfield on Mondays

Does anyone else feel like this on a Monday?

Mar
11

Comics: Setting a Goal is Important

This one actually gave me a strong chuckle so I felt it was worth sharing.

Mar
10

Video: Some Star Wars Favorites

Partially as an addition to the previous Star Wars video.

Mar
09

LinkRush: March 9th, 2007

Google releases some trade secrets Google will be gaining some serious new competition through open-source search Google joins in on the mobile ...

Mar
07

LinkRush: March 7th, 2007

Sarah touches on some basics of invalid clicks with some real numbers. Google Base becoming a little more involved and expanded. The ...

Mar
07

8apps, We Have Contact! Anyone want an invite?

I just got invited to 8apps.com, yet another social networking site, but this one is geared to be even more ...

Mar
06

LinkRush: March 6th, 2007

Matt Cutts on some great Gmail tips Lifehacker with 7 tips to improve your confidence Do not get lazy with your articles, ...

Mar
05

The Top 50 Most Important People of the Web

Yahoo! released an article with the top 50 most important people of the web today. So what makes this ...

Mar
03

Wordpress 2.1.2 Release — Upgrade Immediately

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit ...

Feb
28

Want a Virb.com Invite? I Have Some!

I recently received an invite to Virb.com which appears to be a new social networking site (yes, geez, another one), ...

Feb
28

New ReviewMe Affiliate Program

ReviewMe.com has announced they have a new affiliate program. Something that I have been waiting a while for. ...

Feb
26

Video: Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging

A video I've known about for a while but failed to finally put up here. This is something that ...

Feb
25

Why I Support TextLinkAds.com

I have been a member of TextLinkAds.com ("TLA") since January 2006. Throughout the past year, I have had a ...

Feb
25

Video: The Ransom Notes

The Afters - Beautiful Love Kelly Clarkson - Beautiful Disaster Lauryn Hill - Killing Me Softly Looking for more? Check out ...

Feb
16

Can You Hear Me Now?

This video was found via Digg and it all started with a simple quest... Read all the details on his ...

Feb
14

Video: Lord Vader as a Day Manager

I saw this and couldn't pass it up...it's a bit lengthy, but worth every second of it. It's a ...

Feb
13

Monster Rabbits

My mom sent me this one. Something I couldn't pass up. I don't know if there's too much ...

Feb
11

Wordpress & Gallery Named Best Free Software

Recently on the Gallery homepage I noticed a small article about how they were mentioned in PC Mag's recent edition. ...

Feb
11

“Dude, you’re getting a burned down house!”

On Monday morning I was heading to work like any other day.. little did I know that my home was ...

Feb
07

Rand Fishkin’s Superbowl Proposal — Will She Say Yes?

The one and only Rand Fishkin from SEOmoz.org is the mysterious mysuperproposal.com. Alas, the invitation to wed Sir Fishkin ...

Feb
01

Video: Clarky Cat

This is another one I couldn't pass up, seriously, I couldn't.

Jan
31

Microsoft Windows Vista Launches

I completely missed this one. I don't know how I didn't hear anything about it until today (1 day ...

Jan
30

Yahoo! Offers Backlink Badges

As Yahoo! tries to gain more webmaster popularity, it has released a Backlink Badge display for webmasters. You can choose and ...

Jan
29

Ma.gnolia’s Poor Marketing

I am very adamant about marketing and advertising. I'm continually analyzing and restructuring advertising campaigns and marketing strategies. ...

Jan
27

Video: Lifesize Bomberman Action

A group of students at the University of Aalborg in Copenhagen have taken their Bomberman fandom to some grin-inducing new ...

Jan
22

Wordpress 2.1 Released

The long awaited Wordpress 2.1 is here with some amazing new features. Some features a lot of us have ...

Jan
19

Wordpress 2.1 RC1 Released

Wordpress (the platform this site is using) has been released as RC1 for the next major upgrade. 2.1 has ...

Jan
12

The Apple and Cisco Battle

As it was the talk of the town on Wednesday, Apple released their new iPhone. Shortly after releasing the ...

Jan
09

Apple iPhone iPod Released

This one I couldn't pass up writing about. At the MacWorld Expo taking place right now in San Francisco, ...

Dec
12

The End of the Road for Windows?

There has been rumors floating around on the web that Vista may be the last release of Windows by Microsoft. ...

Dec
03

Viacom Takes the Funny Route — Comedy Online

When Atom Films relaunches today, it will be a playground for aspiring video producers hoping for the next big Comedy ...

Dec
01

Video: Save Google Answers

Save Google Answers

Nov
27

Easy iTunes QuickBuy Feature

So I'm listening to di.fm right now (the best trance radio station on the net) and I'm thinking dang, I ...

Nov
19

Insights on Podcasting

So I've been a little slow on this one, I haven't even remotely started thinking about podcasting yet. Well, ...

Nov
18

Something you need to watch

This video really meant something to me, maybe you can take it to heart too. This isn't related to ...

Nov
14

The Future of Advertising: Chat-enabled Ads

IBM and Intel have been running a new type of marketing campaign in the past few months -- with chat-enabled ...

Nov
13

Web 16.0

According to W3.org, the first web page created is dated back to: Tuesday, November 13, 1990 7:17:00 AM I remember that ...

Nov
12

Lisensa Copyright Protection Tools

A problem that I've had personally for this blog is splogging -- aka spam blogging. Darren wrote up a ...

Nov
08

Windows Vista Gets VoIP

On an off-side note back to Windows Vista, there was an interesting write-up on the Microsoft Informer about how Vista ...

Nov
07

TextLinkAds.com Acquired by MediaWhiz

Yeah, I know, this isn't Google related, but I have close ties to TextLinkAds.com and I thought this was worth ...

Oct
29

Set Your Clocks Back

In case you didn't realize it yet, Daylight Savings happened, so set your clocks back an hour. That means ...

Oct
26

Video: How it Should Have Ended

Here's a little taste of How it Should Have Ended.

Oct
25

Puzzle: It Can Read Your Mind

Take a look at this puzzle. I tried it out and sure enough, it was right. Almost a ...

Oct
25

Amazon Just Says No

BsuinessWeek reports: Amazon.com Inc. has objected to providing details about its book search feature to rival Google Inc., which says it ...

Oct
24

Firefox 2.0 is Official

It is official. Mozilla Firefox 2.0 has been released today. With a long wait and much anticipation, it ...

Oct
23

LinkRush: October 23rd, 2006

Google Acquires SpaceShipOne Google Poland Blog Google Activity Reports via Google WebmasterCentral New AdWords Tools via Google AdWords Blog Easier to Get a Job ...

Oct
17

Popular Typos by Yahoo!

Yahoo! released a list of mis-spelled words: Rachel Ray Tatoos Scarlett Johanson Wierd Al Yankovic Evanesence Soduku Barbara Streisand Louis Vitton Jamie Presley Jimmy Buffet Brittany Spears Brittney Spears Anna Nichole Smith Eva Mendez Jessica ...

Oct
16

Search With Animation

Going through my feeds, I ran across this from Phillip. It's a search engine with a face -- but ...

Oct
12

Video: Google Just Brought Sexy Back

Google's recent partnership now allows for users to view music videos for free. This only allows for "lower quality" ...

Oct
12

Time to Get Fuzzy, Google

The comic Get Fuzzy -- a comic strip I read often -- highlights Google in this segment of the comic ...

Oct
11

Yahoo! Time Capsule

This was too good to pass up and not blog about it. Yahoo! has released a digital time capsule that is ...

Oct
09

Microsoft Wants a Piece of it

Microsoft has signed a deal with Blinkx.TV to power their video search. With all the talks of YouTube and ...

Oct
07

Microsoft Windows Vista - Part 2

As I've been using Windows Vista lately on my laptop, I have not been too entirely happy with the power ...

Oct
05

AntiLeech Content Splogging

Lorelle wrote an awesome article on how to combat content-thiefs. I actually took her up on some of the ...

Oct
05

b5 Media VC Funding

A huge congrats to b5 Media -- a large blogging company -- for their venture capital funding. About b5media Inc. b5media (www.b5media.com) ...

Oct
02

Contact Courtesy

Shoemoney wrote a good article on contact courtesy. While he didn't label it as such, essentially that's what it ...

Sep
27

Feedvertising by TextLinkAds.com

Feedvertising is a new platform just released today from TextLinkAds.com. Feedvertising doesn't directly help your SEO rankings, but it ...

Sep
27

Wordpress Named Top Blogging Tool of 2006

Businessweek.com has released their "top of the top", and Wordpress was named the top blogging tool of 2006. Wordpress Blogger Sixapart.com (TypePad, LiveJournal, ...

Sep
26

Internet Privacy Today

Do you think Internet privacy is bad today? Look back on what it was 9 years ago. Things ...

Sep
26

Google Better Take Notes On This One

Techdirt has the latest on the class action lawsuit against AOL. When AOL released the personal records of search ...

Sep
25

The Praetorian Mad House

I talked about it a little bit, but I never got around to posting the pics and all the specs ...

Sep
25

Wordpress.com VIP Program

Wordpress.com launched the VIP program today. First thing that comes to mind after reading: "It's all for the moneyyy." ...

Sep
20

Video: White and Nerdy

Thanks Shoemoney.

Sep
18

Added Features for iTunes 7.0

I recently downloaded iTunes 7.0 when they released their new iPod line-up. I love iTunes with a passion, especially ...

Sep
14

Windows Vista Follow-Up

I've been using Windows Vista for about 24 hours now and I'm not entirely impressed by it. They've taken ...

Sep
12

Time to Go Vista

I'm installing Windows Vista RC1 on my laptop right now just to test it out before installing it on my ...

Aug
25

Doggy-Pouch Exposed

On the off-topic side of things, I couldn't pass up sharing this. DailyMail.co.uk

Aug
11

Pandora Internet Radio

This is a bit off-topic from Google, but I thought it was worth mentioning. This music radio station learns ...

Aug
10

Video: How Not to Release a Leopard

This was just too good to pass up, so here it is...

Aug
08

Wordpress WordCamp ‘06

Wordpress had a WordCamp conference this past weekend which I would have loved to attend. Unfortunately, I reside in ...

Jul
06

coComment Addition

This blog is about trying new things and reaching out into the community. With that in mind, I thought ...

Jul
03

Comics: Dilbert’s HR Department at Work

You'll often see some comics from Dilbert here because I constantly read it and I often think it correlates closely ...