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Re: ‘Merry Christmas from Google’

I have just received an e-mail from Google, with a Christmas gift:

Hello,

As we near the end of the year, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for the time, energy, commitment, and trust you’ve shared with us in 2009.

With sharing in mind, this year we’ve decided to do something a little different. We hope you’ll find it fits the spirit of the Christmas season.

We’re looking forward to working with you to build lasting success in 2010.

With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year,
Your Google Team

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Facebook to charge £14.99 per month

Facebook are to charge £14.99 per month to access the site, in plans to be implemented July next year. Or so a Facebook group says. READ MORE

Chat to Strangers on Facebook

A few days ago, I was thinking of ways to drive more traffic to 22Talk. Unlike my other websites, 22Talk’s traffic is more time dependent in that more than 1 user must be online at the same time for it to work at all (and lots more for it to work effectively). READ MORE

Enhance your 404 page with Related Pages

Taxomation.com have just released ‘404 widget‘ — a useful tool for helping your site’s lost users. The widget looks at the URL a visitor tried to load, and extracts keywords from it. It then runs over to Yahoo! and finds related pages from your site — all just in time to be displayed to the visitor, who can choose a page or keep searching. READ MORE

Google Launches OpenDNS Alternative

Today, Google announced the release of Google Public DNS — a complete alternative to the Domain Name System (DNS) offered by your ISP, OpenDNS and similar services. Google claims that their DNS service is fast, secure, and — unlike many ISPs and OpenDNS — they promise never to filter, block or redirect DNS responses.

From previous experience, it can be expected that Google Public DNS will only get better — but I believe that its openness and performance are reason enough for it to be adopted now. I have already switched, and you can do the same in a few seconds. READ MORE

Google Chrome OS: Download Now

Google Chormium OS has been released! If you want to take the new operating system for a test run, you can download the source code or get an image for VMware player (the later is the easy option). For now, engadget.com has some screenshots, but I hope to try Chrome for myself soon. Stay tuned.

Download Now »

(By the looks of it, it is a WebOS more than anything).

‘Google Anal’: Snigger-worthy?

Never noticed this before…

Traffic Sources Overview - Google Anal

Why are the media obsessed with Twitter!?

It seems crazy that the media always seem to have something to say about Twitter. Yet, 99% of us don’t actually care.

Recently, BBC News published an article — ‘Fry ends row with Twitter critic‘. That’s fair enough … but is it really that news-worthy!? What is really annoying is that it is published under ‘Entertainment‘ (it’s not entertaining), and featured on ‘Technology‘ (it’s not really anything to do with technology), and mentioned on the front-page and  ‘UK‘ (where most people don’t care about Twitter [or Stephen Fry, for that matter]). Strangely, in the most suitable place, ‘Also in the News‘, it is not mentioned at all. READ MORE

RightNowFeed.org for sale

RightNowFeed.org, the Twitter-News mash-up, is for sale at Flippa! Can you spare a few dollars?

Increasing Internet Sales: How!?

As you may know, I run the website MTW:ED, a subscription web-service which scans expiring domains with Google PageRank and other popularity values. When it first launched (as a subscription site), it was getting around 4-5 subscriptions per month: enough to pay for hosting, and to make a little profit. When sales declined, I took some actions in attempt to regain them. It worked for a little while, but sales have continued to decline. The site seems to have a lessening presence in the search engines, and relies on mostly direct traffic: not good for getting new customers. READ MORE