Google Adsense Team announced the launch of interest-based advertising. This will be offered to a limited number of advertisers over the next few months as part of the beta before a full fledged launch in late 2009. So, what is interest-based advertising To develop interest categories, we’ll recognize the types of webpages users visit across the AdSense network.
Google Reader isn’t really my favorite feed reader since I prefer Feed Demon for this purpose. However, I know a lot of users who swear by Google Reader mainly because it is online and accessible from anywhere. Last year Google Reader added the ability to share feeds and added a sharing bookmarklet to make this task even easier.
Gmail is in super duper update mode! Over the last week we’ve seen some awesome updates to the interface. Multi-select Uploads with Progress Bar You can now select more than one file in the same folder by hitting Ctrl key in Windows or Cmd in Mac OS X.
Google introduced Analytics for Mobile Phones a few weeks back. Using Google Analytics Advanced Segmentation feature you can now track your visitors from iPhone and iPod touch as well. To enable this feature, simply click on the drop down menu next to “Advanced Segments” and select “Visits from iPhones”.
We reported earlier this week that you can now merge your contacts in Gmail. The same has been announced officially on the Gmail blog. Besides merging contacts, Suggested Contacts has been removed and this has been replaced by All Contacts.
The Gmail team has been very very busy this last month or so. First we had the Send and Archive button. Next came the ability to store email offline.
After Gmail Offline and the new Google Menu, Gmail is back with a new feature, viz. Multiple Inboxes. The multiple inboxes feature allows you to display more than one set of emails in your inbox.
Opened my Gmail today and was surprised to find a brand new menu at the top of my emails. Two new buttons have been added to the interface, viz. Move To and Labels.
If you thought that Google Earth was all about land, well, think again. With the launch of Google Earth 5, Google has now attempted to conquer the seas and Mars. From the release post, new features include: Historical Imagery: Until today, Google Earth displayed only one image of a given place at a given time.
When Gmail came out a few years ago extremely was very pleased with the brand new shiny email service that came up in competition with Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail. However, off late using Gmail has been a real pain.
The voluminous storage that Gmail offers you ensures that you never need to delete any email. Instead you can archive it and save it for your records. The usual process would be to reply to your email and then hit the archive button.
And you don’t need to make the change. Christina explains the change: So why the change? Adding the try and catch to the snippet removes the possibility that your visitor sees a JavaScript message that doesn’t apply to her.