Archive | June, 2009

Google Invites News Partners to Share Video

29 June 2009

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Go to Source Google is inviting the more than 25,000 news sources that partner with them for Google News to share professional news videos to YouTube. They’ll be able to host videos on YouTube for free once being approved as a YouTube Partner. YouTube’s news partners get featured placement on the YouTube news page and [...]

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Size limits increased for YouTube, Gmail

29 June 2009

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Go to Source Google Inc. has raised the size limits on its YouTube video-sharing site and on Gmail attachments.

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Koogle: The Kosher Search Engine

29 June 2009

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Go to Source There is now an Israeli search engine – Koogle, developed for Jewish searchers that keeps kosher – well it shuts down on the Sabbath. USAToday reported: “In their mission statement, Koogle administrators said the site’s goal is to “filter the appropriate information from different websites that are relevant to our target audience [...]

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Did Email Hacker Bring About Gov. Sanford’s Fall?

29 June 2009

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Go to Source Seems the emails from the Argentine mistress of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford were distributed by a hacker, or so Sanford’s mistress claims according to a report by FoxNews. The emails were obtained by The State – the South Carolina newspaper – in December, the Huffington Post reported. The State said they [...]

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Gmail Increases Attachment Size To Entice Signups?

29 June 2009

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Go to Source Last weekend Gmail increased the size of allowable attachments from 20 MG to 25 MG. One has to wonder if this was done mainly to garner more people to sign up for Google email service since they suggest changing from any service that will not accept attachments of that size. “With Gmail, [...]

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Submit Panel Ideas for SXSW 2010 Now!

24 June 2009

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Go to Source If you hadn’t already noticed, the submission process for the 2010 SXSW Panel Picker is now live! The folks from SXSW Interactive have known about the picker for a couple of years, contributing over 1400 proposals last season, but we decided to go even bigger and better in 2010 by extending the [...]

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SES Toronto 2009 Gets Rave Reviews from Attendees

24 June 2009

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Go to Source We conducted more than half a dozen video interviews with attendees at SES Toronto 2009 — to get feedback on the conference. Basically, the event got rave reviews with comments ranging from “excellent” to “bloody fantastic.” A couple of attendees mentioned the Monday keynote by Tara Hunt, author of The Whuffie Factor. [...]

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Google Launches Volunteer Search Site

24 June 2009

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Go to Source If you’re looking to give back to your community or volunteer for a charity, a new site from Google can help you find the right opportunity. It’s called AllforGood.org and it’s a volunteer search site. When you visit the site, it detects your location via your IP address. The results will return [...]

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Google Analytics Rearranges the Living Room

24 June 2009

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Go to Source Google Analytics has been moving things around, giving parts of the site a new feel. But don’t get used to the way things are now. Analytics is using Website Optimizer to, um, optimize their site. And that means things can continue to change. But like a good search marketer, the Analytics team [...]

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New Analytics Desktop Wallpapers

24 June 2009

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Go to Source Late last week we launched an updated version of the Google Analytics website. Some keen-eyed observers noticed that we updated our logo as well. This is consistent with a larger Google effort to update logos on all of our consumer and business products. Consumer product logos now generally have the word Google [...]

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