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Rumor confirmed: Google to acquire feedburner

Published on May 23rd, 2007   Filed Under Google   0 Comments

Last week rumors started that Google is interested in acquiring Feedburner, today Techcrunch reported that the deal is confirmed. Feedburner to receive $100 million from Google for this acquisition. Feedburner is a popular service among blogs for RSS management.
Feedburner has RSS advertising network, Google can integrate its Adsense in to this and expand its [...]

Google Introduces New Blog for Online Security

Published on May 22nd, 2007   Filed Under Google, Internet, Technology   0 Comments

Google introduces an online security blog to keep users up to date with the recent trends, interesting findings, and efforts related to online security particularly malware. I wrote about Google’s efforts to identify malware sites, now they have started this blog to encourage discussion on this topic.
To protect Google’s users from this threat, we started [...]

Google Adsense disabling arbitrage publisher accounts

Published on May 21st, 2007   Filed Under Advertising, Google   3 Comments

Google Adsense is disabling all arbitrage publisher accounts from June 1st onwards. Google is sending emails to all these account holders saying that their business model is not suitable.
What is Arbitrage:
From wikipedia “arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price differential between two or more markets: a combination of matching deals are [...]

Better Google Reader for Firefox

Published on May 21st, 2007   Filed Under Google, Software, Tweaks   0 Comments

Lifehacker came up with a firefox extension to pimp Google Reader in Firefox. Better greader is a Firefox addon that rolled up three greasemonkey scripts (maximizing the viewing area, skipping Google’s default subscribe mechanism, and adding keyboard shortcuts.) in one extension.
What it does:

You will get maximum amount of space for the feed viewing area.
Adds keyboard [...]

Outbound Calls from Google Talk coming soon?

Published on May 20th, 2007   Filed Under Google, Software, Technology   2 Comments

It appears that Google Talk will have outbound calling feature in the near future if not immediately. The screenshot shown in the picture shows three links “Show dailpad, Call details, Close”, this picture is there in the Google’s presentation available here, look in Google Talk section.
Back in december Girouard Vice President and General Manager [...]

Google to acquire Feedburner?

Published on May 18th, 2007   Filed Under Google   1 Comment

After the Apple iPhone delay rumor one more rumor comes to internet. Vecosys heard from a “Very trusted source� that Google is buying Feedburner to get in to the rapidly evolving RSS ad market place. The deal may be put on hold until the completion of DoubleClick deal.
Its a good thing if Google gets [...]

Picasa Web Albums Flash SlideShow

Published on May 18th, 2007   Filed Under Google, Web 2.0   0 Comments

Picasa Web Albums now introduces the much needed feature, the ability to embed photos in blogs and MySpace. Some web 2.0 startups like Slide, FlipFrames made it easy to embed photos blogs. Now with Picasa also added this, you can embed picasa web albums as flash slideshows and paste anywhere you like. They have given [...]

Google Universal Search

Published on May 17th, 2007   Filed Under Google   1 Comment

Google today announced a universal search model that will offer users a more integrated and comprehensive way to search. Now the google search results are showing links to books, blogs, groups, news and images on the top left side.

Google’s vision for universal search is to ultimately search across all its content sources, compare and rank [...]