by Mike Valentine on November 18, 2009
Tracking: What is Google Analytics?
Google Analytics is a popular free service among webmasters. It can help them learn how to gain more visitors to their web sites and turn more of that traffic into sales and registrations. So exactly what is Google Analytics?
The Google Analytics service provides free information about how visitors locate and view [...]
by Mike Valentine on November 4, 2009
The Official Google Blog talks about the week-long celebration of that 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street with an announcement, and a video of Cookie Monster Singing about Google – and today Google went bright yellow on the logo and inserted two Big Bird (Sesame Street) legs as the “L” in Google.
Google doodles celebrate events [...]
by Mike Valentine on November 1, 2009
Confused about how to use Google Wave, the new Google product that combines messaging, wiki-like features and group collaboration into a single app? You’re not alone.
To clear up the confusion, we recently published Google Wave: A Complete Guide, a feature-length article that explains Wave in plain English.
Now Gina Trapani and Adam Pash have gone a [...]
by Mike Valentine on October 19, 2009
October 19, 2009
The Honorable Julius Genachowski, Chairman
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554
Dear Chairman Genachowski:
We write to express our support for your announcement that the Federal Communications Commission will begin a process to adopt rules that preserve an open Internet. We believe a process that results in common sense baseline [...]
by Mike Valentine on October 12, 2009
Oct 12, 2009 at 9:47am ET by Greg Sterling
While search is the “front door to the internet” on the PC, the same cannot be said of mobile devices. Apps, bookmarks and other ways to access content have become at least as useful as the Google search box on a mobile device. While Google will laugh [...]
by Mike Valentine on October 10, 2009
Google boosted its Google Squared search service. When Squared launched in June, users would receive up to 30 fact squares. As of today, Squared now displays up to 120 facts per query. Users can also now sort columns, letting users rank, group and compare items, with Squared converting units in the background. Users can also [...]
by Mike Valentine on October 8, 2009
So what exactly is Google Wave?
You could classify it as a real-time collaboration tool that enables communication between a group of people. The environment enables a multitude of media that can interact within a wave or be embedded, such as text, photos, videos, maps, gadgets, bots and more. It’s also a platform with a rich [...]
by Mike Valentine on October 7, 2009
Google Home Page Bar Code Logo Celebrates the 57th Anniversary of the Bar Code Patent by Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952, when they were granted Patent No. 2,612,994
The bar code is ubiquitous and is used everywhere – soon to make it’s way to cell phones for instant mobile payment and additional [...]