Archive for September, 2011

Challenges in Automated Traffic Reporting

2011/09/25

Posted by Benjamin Estes Recently I had a client who (generally for the enlightenment of their executive branch) wanted traffic information reported in an easy-to-digest format. The idea was that while they had consistently used Google Analytics for some time, there were people in the company who had an interest in knowing certain traffic data, but were too far from the day-to-day running of the website to be spending a lot of time sifting through Analytics reports.

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Bing: Deals, Video Home Page, New Conduit Deal

2011/09/25

Bing now offers a more visual discount deal search experience with Bing Deals. Meanwhile, Bing also showcased its first HTML5-powered video home page. Also, Bing has teamed with Conduit on making Conduit apps findable through Bing search.

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Jim Henson Muppets Google Doodle Lets You Become the Puppeteer

2011/09/25

Google and The Jim Henson Company have collaborated to honor the 75th birthday of the late Jim Henson. An interactive Google Doodle on Google’s home page today features six original characters that you can control with your mouse and keyboar…

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Mesh & the Tyranny of Size: How Mesh Might Change Second Life Culture

2011/09/24

  While other ongoing stories are still…

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Google News Launches “Standout” Tag for Featured Content

2011/09/24

Today at the Online News Association conference, Google introduced a new link rel attribute that news organizations can use to mark their best work. You can mark up to seven pieces of content per week.

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Android Cookie Jar

2011/09/24

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Google Logo Celebrates Jim Henson’s 75th Birthday

2011/09/24

A new Google logo that’s on the company’s home page today celebrates what would have been Jim Henson’s 75th birthday. The logo features six new Muppet characters, each of which can be controlled as if you’re the puppeteer. A couple of the Muppets do special actions when you…

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Crawl Outage – An Update and What We’re Doing

2011/09/24

Posted by Bryce Howard Howdy folks! I wish I was writing you with better news, but in the spirit of TAGFEE , we want you to be as informed as possible about your PRO membership:

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Bug: Hold Alerts On Google AdSense Payments

2011/09/24

Chris from the Google AdSense team posted in the Google AdSense Help forum that there is a bug with some publishers seeing that their AdSense payments are on hold. Chris said: Some of you may be seeing an alert on your home page that your payments are on hold…

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Google News & Finance Having Issues Linking Up?

2011/09/24

There are two reports of bugs with Google News out today. The first is around how Google News links up with Google Finance and the second is how some people are seeing only local news in their top news section on the Google News home page…

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