Ten Great Tips for Working with AdSense
Google just released a Newbie Central for their AdSense program, those ads webmasters can include on their site to earn money for every click on the ad from a visitor (if you’re using the program, part of the advertiser budget will go to you, and the other part to Google). I wanted to add some tips from my own experience:
Chat with Google Translation Bot
If you need to translate to another language and occasionally need help on a word there is a new feature in Gmail Chat that you may find helpful. You can find more details in a Googletalk blog post by Jonas Lindberg and there are more details on the blog of Rich Tehrani.
Social Networking – Your’e Known by the Company You Keep
This thought provoking article by Jennifer Laycock (Are Your Social Networking Connections Hurting YOUR Reputation?) brings to mind the saying of my grandmother’s: ” You are known by the company you keep.” While some may dispense with this as old-fashioned advice in the new socially-networked world. I find it to be true now more than ever.
Speculation About a New Google Filter
Aaron Wall put up a post about a new Google filter that causes people with high ranking terms to be bumped down to position #6. There is also a thread at Webmaster World about this phenomenon. This is still reasonably speculative in nature, but there are a lot of people who have seen this.
Cute Animals, Not-Cute Criminals Wreck Connections
Last week was a weird one for Internet and power outages, with causes ranging from the ever-popular out of control truck, to random gunfire.
New Jersey Bans Net Access For Sex Offenders
No elected official is going to vote against something called "the KIDS Act," especially when it aims to curb sex offenders’ access to children online. It’s like voting against anti-kitten-punting legislation. In a perfect policy world, though, lawmakers would not just agree on terms, but would also address limitations.
Keeping Up With CES
OK, first, for those unlucky few that are going to CES (Consumer Electronics Show, aka “big gadget fest of the year”) for some reason, here’s some good posts to help you prepare:
Search Titans Ready For Iowa Caucuses
The campaign for Presidential nominations began in earnest today with the first primary being held in Iowa. The major search engines have resources of interest for the politically inclined surfer to visit.
Teach Your Little Ones with Google Apps
My seven year old son wants to program online games badly. After playing Pokemon online he got the notion that he wanted to make something like that. He pestered me for days about setting him up so he could make cool games where his friends could checkout his games. I struggled for a few days trying to find a solution for him. He’s seven so there has to be some reward for the initial work he does to keep his interest. You can’t just throw a seven year old in the deep end and let him flounder.
Who Does This Facebook Data Belong To?
In his post about Facebook disabling his account, uber-blogger and Facebook tart Robert Scoble admits that he was doing something that breached the site’s terms of use — specifically, he was running a script that accessed the social network and “scraped” data from it.