The Yahoo! / MSN Search Alliance, which rolled out in the US late last year – and with mixed results, transitions in Europe imminently. As advertisers and agencies this side of the Atlantic await its arrival, leading search marketing specialist and technology firm Greenlight, is sceptical it will finally deliver on being a serious Google competitor. Moreover, Greenlight has uncovered shortcomings when it comes to paid search with the Alliance and what it really offers the advertiser.
CloudPull is a Mac OS X application that backs up Google Docs to the Mac. CloudPull backs up documents, spreadsheets, and presentations as Microsoft Office files; drawings as PNG image files; and other files in their native formats. CloudPull provides users with a local, independent backup of their Google Docs.
Full title of this Fast Company article by Kit Eaton i “Forget Advertising: In-App Purchasing Is Where the Dollars Are At.”
In it, Kit says that the new way to make money with Apps, is to allow purchasing from within the app.
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Yes, it’s yet another iPad contender, but this one’s getting some serious attention all over the world — probably because it’s from Google. And, riding in on the wings of Verizon could be a major play …
Continue reading »The actual title to this article by Saikat Basu on MakeUseOf is “10 Google Services That Don’t Get the Limelight They Deserve.”
Probably more accurate but too long. Several of these I did not know about.
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There’s still time to Sketch-a-Space for Autism Awareness … Easter Seals has announced the deadline for its online contest Sketch-A-Space, supported by Google SketchUp, will be extended from July 16 to August 20, 2010.
I used StumbleUpon to find this add-in for Firefox and Safari. It seeds Google Map urls to the iPhone via an email.
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Accessing Google Docs on the iPad just became much easier with the release of DocsPortal 1.0 from Kabuki Vision. With its stunning interface, DocsPortal makes it easy to browse, search, and view files stored in a Google Docs account. Files can additionally be e-mailed, imported, and exported from within the app.
The Google Email Uploader for Mac is a desktop utility for Mac OS X that uploads email archives from Apple Mail, Eudora, Thunderbird, and exported Entourage mail (along with other mbox and Maildir archives) to your Google Apps mailbox.
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You are probably aware that the week before WWDC Steve Jobs among other was at All Things Digital. He was interviewed for an hour and a half.
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Google formally revealed at its Android developer conference Thursday that it is working in collaboration with Intel, Sony, Logitech and others to develop and market Google TV-enabled products, which will be based on the Android software platform.
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I not sure when this exactly happened, but the web is alive with the buzz about Google Buzz. Fortunately, I listened to Leo Laporte discuss it on This Week In Google. (Part of the TWiT podcast system.) Leo warned that it is overwhelming if you have more than a few people in Gmail that you regularly talk to and it opens up your list of friends so all of them can see who you are corresponding with. (A real privacy issue for some.)
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The full title of this article is “100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School.”
Of course, that means it is aimed at students. But I bet we could all benefit from these tips.
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Crowd Technologies provider of the stock prediction site Piqqem, has announced the latest sentiment results for Apple, Google, Intel, Cisco, Amazon, HP and Microsoft
Continue reading »Google has announced a new DNS service.
Configuring your network settings to use Google Public DNS. Google Public DNS, changes your DNS “switchboard” operator from your ISP to Google Public DNS.
