Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs all went out of beta last week. The funny thing is that I didn’t notice it till my husband pointed it out to me this weekend, which is more proof that Alex Chitu was right when he said, “If you think there’s something missing from Gmail’s logo, enable the “Back to Beta” feature from Gmail Labs to bring back the familiar logo. It’s that easy to pretend that nothing happened.” As further proof, who among you noticed it without someone (or some article) pointing the fact out to you?
Anyway the reason why I’m writing this post isn’t to just figure out how many people noticed the non-beta status of these Google apps. I am writing to find out what everyone thinks about my theory that the reason why these apps actually came out of beta is not only because the apps are “fully mature” but also because Google will now be shifting their focus on their next big product – Google Wave. Google Wave looks to me like an amalgam of the Gmail, Google Docs, and Twitter – but different and better. As Lars Rasmussen put it they designed Google Wave with one question in mind, “How would email look like if it were invented today and not 40 years ago.”
If you haven’t heard of Google Wave yet you can watch the preview below. I doubt that Gmail and other email services will become obsolete that fast, especially with most people being pretty resistant to change, but it is clear (please do watch the video to see what I mean) that Wave will be revolutionary not only for developers and businesses (focus on the open protocol used by Wave) but also for normal people in terms of the way we communicate. This takes real time to the next level, which can only be REAL real time. Sounds weird? Again, I urge you to watch the video.
I just finished reading Justin Brigg’s post “9 SEO Tips”. The post may have a boring title but his tips are pretty sound. I especially liked tip number 5, which tells about the power of the hash #, something frequently overlooked, if known at all, by SEO newbies. On my next post I will be [...]
Let’s face it 404 pages are a pain, for webmasters and for users. I absolutely hate clicking on a link and getting a 404 error page. However, what’s really our concern here is what it does for your SEO. What should you do about those 404 pages? Should you just leave it alone or should [...]
Bing has arrived and the net is buzzing with reviews and comparisons to Google and even MSN’s old live search. With all the comparisons with regards to search results and what you can and cannot to do with Bing that you can do with Google and vice versa I though that it would be better [...]
I spend my weekend playing around with one of the most awesome things to come out in the internet ever – WolframAlpha. If you haven’t heard of it’s the fruit of Stephen Wolfram’s vision and it is real live working computational knowledge engine. Forget search engines for the moment because the geek in me is [...]
Google’s VP of Search Products and User Experience, Marissa Mayer, announced yesterday the latest in Google’s Search Options. I’ve embedded the YouTube video below but am going to give you an outline of what you’ll see on the video. The new options allow you to:
view results identified as videos, forums, and reviews;
narrow down results depending [...]
Microsoft Word and other word processing programs auto format punctuation. Unfortunately, punctuation that has been modified by word processing programs is not converted in the same way by the programs running the search engines.
For example, word processing programs will turn:
• straight apostrophes, commas, and quotation marks into curved ones;
• a short hypen - is converted [...]
Heads up SEOs. If you haven’t been factoring in Twitter in your client’s SEO campaign now is the time to stop and seriously consider upping your social media efforts.
Twitter has announced that it will be expanding its Twitter Search to include not only the text found in tweets in its index, which is what it [...]
There used to be an old saying that if you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick and that used to be the way people threw in keywords. Splatter enough keywords across a Home Page and some of them are sure to attract the big boys. Times and the competition have [...]
We all agree that carewords are important and should be factored in when writing up a website’s content. What I haven’t mentioned though is how to come up with these carewords. The truth is that it is pretty much just like doing keyword research except that what you have to focus more on is not [...]
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