Archive for September, 2006
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO — Online video is no longer just fun and games: You might actually learn something.
The University of California at Berkeley said Tuesday that it is using Google Video to deliver college courses, including lectures and symposia, free of charge, the first university to have its own featured page on Google Video.
The site is at http://video.google.com/ucberkeley, Google and campus officials said in a statement.
As an initial offering, the university has put up a library of more than 250 hours of video for public viewing. Most of it previously was not available online, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a statement.
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While trying to submit this story to Digg, I’ve found out that Berkley offers free audio classes through itunes
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Tonight I wanted to look up a band and some videos. The band is called Dark. Obviously looking for it is a real pain due to the fact that their name is a common word.
First thought in my head was: “How dumb do you have to be to name your band so simple. You have to think that people will have a hard time finding you in Google”
Than…the second thought: “God damn that band was created in 1997. There was no Google and Yahoo was a basic form of a directory. Nobody thought like that back than.”
In only 7-8 years life changed a lot for many of us and most of our life and business strategies evolve around the search engines and there is no way to escape them. We are just a part of the Matrix and we are feeding it on a daily basis.
But is the Matrix feeding you? Why not?
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
On July Froogle got removed from Google’s homepage and the SERPs, the place being taken by the new wonder child, Google Video. Today I come across the new layout Google is testing for SERPs and surprise surprise Froogle is back again.
Unfortunately just at the bottom of the page
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
After almost a year since it’s launch under the Google label, former Urchin traffic analyzer, now Google Analytics runs at full capacity:
- No more invitations needed for an account
- A maximum of 50 websites to monitor
Still, this a too complex tool for the most website owners and I recommend for bloggers to use Performancing Metrics
Bonus Tip:
If you own multiple blogs, install Performancing tracking code and make the RSS feed public. Then go to Netvibes, create a new tab and add all the feeds from the websites tracked. The result will be a nice real time control panel for all of your blogs
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Sunday, September 17th, 2006
A few months ago, most SEO and webmaster’s forums were full of people claiming that MFA (Made for Adsense) and other simple affiliates junk websites will be banned from the Adwords program.
For a short period of time, that seemed to be true and I saw a slight increase of the Adsense revenue and no more junk websites. Unfortunately, for the past month they seem to be all over the place again.
So…Google Guys those claims of increasing the quality of the Adsense program were just a PR stunt?
If this is not fixed, on the long run it will affect both publishers and Google. Publishers will remove the Adsense from their websites because their users are mislead and by that Google will loose advertising medium leading to less happy advertisers that will move to other networks.
I wonder what will prevail…greed or quality?
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
YAT21L = Yet Another Top 21 list 
Danny you owe me a link 
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