SearchWiKi: Personalizing Your Search
Google is in the news lately. First they released customized themes for Gmail then announced the end of Lively and today Google launched SearchWiki, a new feature that allows users to personalize their search results. Users can now add, delete and re-rank their own search results. You can also comment and write notes attached to a particular site. You just have to be logged into Google account to do all these.
Google To Shut Down Lively
A sad day at Google, specially for the team who worked really hard behind this project. But unfortunately that didn’t seem to happen as Google is shutting down this project by the end of the year. Lively, a browser-based virtual world environment which apparently was Google’s answer to Second Life was launched back in July, just about 4 months before where users were able to create their own virtual world.
Google Introduces Customized Themes for Gmail
Just logged in to my Gmail account to see a notification on Customized themes for Gmail. Which obviously changes the look and feel of the inside your Gmail account, much like iGoogle. But looks like this features isn’t available to all Gmail users. I’ve couple of Gmail accounts and I can only see one of them has gotten this feature so far. If this feature has been activated for you then you’ll see a notification as soon as you log into your Gmail.
Why Google Must Die. What!?!
Just finished reading this interesting article by John C. Dvorak at PC Magazine. After reading the article I felt like I just wasted my time. I am sorry but after reading the article I felt like the author doesn’t have any clue about SEO or how the whole technology works. He couldn’t prove any of his own points nor could he give any real life example. The author sounds like he doesn’t have any idea about Google’s different Data Centers and how that effects search results. Instead he was focusing his arguments on how the results may vary if you’re logged into your Google account. There’s also something called “Personalized Search” and I bet the author doesn’t have any clue about that either.
How To Add Signature to Your RSS Feed
If you ever thought of adding your own signature at the bottom of your RSS feed and wondered how to do that then you’ve come to the right place :). Customized RSS signatures are great for offering special content to your registered users or RSS subscribers. If you ever wanted to give something away to your regular website readers such as an E-Book then adding a link to your book or special content on your RSS feed is the best way of doing it. And doing so isn’t that hard at all. You can set it up in less than 5 minutes.
October Stats for Wordpress
I couldn’t stop myself from posting it here. Some amazing statistics of Wordpress for the month of October. What an achievement and if you think of it seriously then you’ll see what an amazing service they’ve got in place. Man! Just look at the numbers. October was also the month of hitting the billion impressions mark. Anyway, here’re the stats (from Wordpress blog):
Facebook Announces App Verification Program + A Revenue Model
It’s a big news for Facebook but not so big news for all the third party app developers.
Facebook yesterday released the guidelines for their app verification program which pretty much means that third party application developers have to pay $375 every year from now on if they want to be in the verified or rather “elite” developers group to receive some special treatment such as some free advertising credits, special placement in the application directory, increased visibility in the news feed, etc.
Google Releases Voice Recognition App for iPhone
Search Engine Giant Google has brought another iPhone application or rather added another very useful feature to its Mobile Application for iPhone & iPod Touch. The sophisticated voice recognition technology now allows users to speak to the iPhone to search for someting rather than typing. Once a voice query is made, the sound gets converted into a digital file and sent to Google’s servers, which then determines the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine and display the results back to the users.
Can You Run Latest Games On Your Computer?
To play a computer based games these days you’ll need a powerful computer with high performance graphics card. Otherwise you won’t be able to play most of the graphics heavy games specially the 3D ones. And buying a PC based game without knowing if you can run it, will be a total waste of money if you can’t play that game on your computer. And not all of us have solid computer hardware knowledge or know how to check whether our computer is capable of running these high end games.
Sneak Peak at Wordpress 2.7: Video
The upcoming Wordpress 2.7 is a long waited one not because the release date hasn’t been met but because its all new looks and lots of additional features. We’ve already seen the list of new features added to this latest version. Also tested the Wordpress 2.7 Beta 3 which was released to public on the weekend and I am still as much excited as I was when the first announcements of 2.7 was made. Which is why I haven’t even upgraded most of my blogs to the 2.6.3 and counting on days for the final release of 2.7.
