Google Really Takes April 1 Seriously
Google Really Takes April 1 Seriously
Google takes a lot of time with its April Fools jokes, and they generally center around new products. Last year we saw the launch of Google Romance. This year, they have two solid fake product launches: Google TiSP (free broadband service) and Google Paper (Prints out Gmail on paper and sends it to you).
In addition […]
Google Launches Gmail Paper & In-Home Wireless Broadband Service
Google always has good April Fools jokes and this year is no exception….
More info here.
Classic. Who needs a Web Office after all…
But wait there’s more, Google has also ‘launched’ Project
teaspoon. A.K.A. TiSP, which
stands for “Toilet Internet Service Provider”. It’s described:
“Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless
broadband service. Sign up today and we’ll send you your TiSP
self-installation kit, which includes setup guide, fiber-optic cable, spindle,
wireless router and installation CD.”
Thanks Nitin for the tip
on TiSP and Emre for Gmail Paper..
It’s going to be a loooong day 
Editor’s Choice: highlights of JamGlue’s interview and demo
Our editor, Rocky Barbanica, brings us the coolest parts of the JamGlue interview and demo. JamGlue is a music remix site where anyone can take music or other audio and mash it up into something new.
Tags: JamGlue, music, remix
gmail Apr 1 2004 vs gtoilettalk Apr 1 2007.
Harold and Kumar go to the library
I love celebrity gossip. This one tickled me.
“You may remember him fondly as Kumar, the hungry stoner from Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle,* and you’ve likely seen him pop up on this season’s 24, as “villainous” teen, Ahmed Ahmar. In fact, Penn, currently starring in Mira Nair’s The …
Windows Live QnA service - public beta
Congrats to Betsy and the team: the Windows Live QnA service is now in public beta.
I’ve been on the private beta for a little while and turned to it for help for a couple of things when I got stuck. One example was asking for good seafood restaurants in Seattle. I tried out one of the recommendations and was not let down…it works!
Update: TechCrunch picks this up.
SEO: How to use blogs for Search engine optimization and to improve your Google ranking/Alexa rating
Here is a simple method to use blogs to increase Google rankings/alexa ratings. I thought I should share it with you since I have rarely seen people use it and it worked very well for me.
The idea is to install Wordpress or movabletype(or equivalent) on your server instead of blogging at generic sites like blogger.com, blogspot etc etc. This is not technically too difficult to do and not too expensive.
Having done that, then you create the blog as a sub domain or a subdirectory of your main site. For instance, my blog is www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com which is a sub domain of www.futuretext.com
Thus, when people link to your blog, they automatically link to your site. This has the advantage of boosting up your Google rankings and Alexa ratings for your whole site
Oddly enough, I have never seen any SEO person recommend this technique ? but it works great from my experience
Some notes
a) This would work only if you are a truly committed blogger and are blogging things which people want to link to. It does not work if the content on your blog is fundamentally not useful to an audience(and therefore not linkable)
b) I think subdirectories work better than sub domains from an SEO standpoint. I use sub domains because our site uses subdomainis in general. I dont want to change my whole site just for that!
c) It requires long term commitment to blogging
But it works!
Eisner?s PromQueen hooks up with MySpace
Michael Eisner’s Prom Queen has a new home: MySpace. The site will have a twelve-hour exclusive on each episode of the show, which should be a shot in the arm for MySpace Video.
Traffic to the popular social network’s video section has been meandering in the #2 spot for a long time, failing to gain ground […]