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Apr
21
HOWTO: Google Reader Power User Guide
Filed Under Google, HowTos, RSS, Social | 5 Comments
If you’re the kind who keeps track of information on the web by subscribing to RSS feeds, chances are things aren’t entirely satisfactory.
You’re probably swamped with an ever-growing backlog, yet reading your feeds takes too long. You’re annoyed at several feeds repeating the same news item. And your feed list looks like one chaotic mess.
Apr
14
Moving to an Online Life
Filed Under Blogs, Editorials, Email, Firefox, Gmail, Google, HowTos, IM, Internet, Mobile, Nokia, RSS, Social, Thunderbird | 7 Comments
So my Thinkpad’s hard disk (a standard Hitachi 2.5″ 4200 RPM 80GB HDD) died Saturday evening. It began making ghastly noises all of a sudden, signaling imminent mechanical failure. I shut down the computer immediately, and on restarting, a BSOD informed me my boot volume was un-mountable.
Jan
10
The Three Degrees of Personalization
Filed Under Editorials, Facebook, Google, Insights, Social, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
Facebook’s Beacon brought some spice to the tech community, which had been longing for some juicy stuff to blog/discuss/pontificate about since the iPhone’s launch several months ago.
Beacon is (was?) part of Facebook’s new online ad system which shared a user’s actions on other (partner) websites with all his/her Facebook friends. (If you rent a movie on Blockbuster, your friends will be notified via Facebook’s mini-feed). Scary, eh?
Dec
16
Reader: Google’s new social network
Filed Under Facebook, Google, RSS, Social | 2 Comments
Steve Rubel talks about the significance about the new “Friends’ Shared Items ” feature on Google Reader. I was about to write about this, but Steve’s put it better than I’d planned. Read more
May
24
Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search - Part 3: What it means for MS and Yahoo!
Filed Under Editorials, Google, Insights, Internet, Trends, Yahoo | 1 Comment
Bob Cringely contends that the battle for search is over, with Google emerging the clear winner. With Google Universal Search, Google has put so much distance between itself and numbers two and three, that the incremental return on additional investment into search by either Yahoo! or Microsoft will be negative. Both firms will be better off putting their money in other lines of business.Why has GUS ended the search wars? Apart from standard Web Search, Google’s also ruled vertical search - maps, books, images, and video. (The only exception was news, where Y! did a better job.) So if Y! and MS were to follow suit with their own integrated searches, the top video (or book) results would be on Google’s properties. In fact, the better they made their searches, the more traffic they’d drive to YouTube or books.google.com! Not only does Google do the best job with vertical search, today it also owns the properties where this vertical content resides!
May
23
Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search - Part 2: What it means for the SEO industry
Filed Under Editorials, Google, Internet, Trends, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
Until today, everything - everything - in the SEO industry was to do with optimising web pages. Firms in this space have fine-tuned the art of Optimization into a science over a decade. Pagerank was all that mattered, and SEO firms knew what worked and what didn’t.
May
22
Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search - Part 1: Industry Disruption
Filed Under Editorials, Google, Internet, Trends, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
About a week ago, Google took the lid off a project that had been brewing for several months. The company calls it Universal Search. In a nutshell, it “will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages.”
May
9
Google - Too much talent could be a problem
Filed Under Editorials, Google, Insights | Leave a Comment
This March, Avinash Kaushik, and this week, Robert Love. Both have moved from their previous positions to new roles at Google. Kaushik is now Google’s “Analytics Evangelist” and Love is on the staff at the “Open Source Program Office”. Consider this a follow-up to my New Year’s Eve post, where I listed a few of the leading lights of the tech industry who’ve joined Google.
Apr
24
Flash Web Applications and componentization
Filed Under Flash, Google, Internet, Trends | Leave a Comment
There was a time when Google released its Desktop Search application (since renamed Google Desktop), and the Google Talk client more or less together. Back then, I wondered why Google was going down the path of Windows desktop applications - wasn’t the Web the Future, according to them? I did think that their strategy implementation was faltering just a bit.
Apr
16
Performics: Google’s little Affiliate nugget
Filed Under Affiliate, Google, Insights, Predictions | Leave a Comment
So Google’s decided to take the plunge and buy DoubleClick. And what’s more, along with the big bird, they also get Performics as part of the deal. Performics was a bit player in the affiliate marketing space until yesterday, but under the Google umbrella it transforms into a potential 800-pound gorilla. Understandably, the affiliate marketing corner of the blogosphere’s gone ballistic over it. Every affiliate consultant worth his/her salt has a take on it. There are two things which everyone seems to have missed. The less significant one first: