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Google Maps Labs
In true Google fashion, they have recently extended the reach of their ‘labs’ experiments by releasing a Google Maps Labs – a place for the Google Maps team to experiment with new features that may or may not be ready … Continue reading
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Google Fusion Tables
Google have recently released a new labs product known as Fusion Tables. Google Fusion Tables allows users to merge data from numerous data sources, to deliver compelling easy to understand comprehensive visualisations of the merged data set. The announcement for … Continue reading
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Google Webmaster Tools Displaying PDF & Word Document Links
Google Webmaster Tools has the ability to explore the internal links and external links or backlinks information for a given domain, instead of relying on the infrequently updated and wildly inaccurate link: operator within a Google search. Traditionally the link … Continue reading
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Favikon, Favicon Generator For The Masses
Stumbled onto a simple but useful free online service last week named Favikon. As the name suggests, it is related to the small but often memorable favicon or favourite icon. For those that don’t know what a favicon is – … Continue reading
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Enhancing Dopplr “Add Trip” Functionality
I recently signed up to the fabulous travel service Dopplr, which lets you share your travel plans with friends, family and colleagues. While adding in a trip from the Gold Coast to my home town of Chinchilla, Dopplr got a … Continue reading
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Twitter Performance Problems, The Root Cause
The performance and scalability problems of Twitter have been covered to death, so I won’t wax lyrical about the different reasons that the micro-blogging service has had performance and uptime problems over the last year. With the advent of cloud … Continue reading
Improve Your Site Using Live Search Webmaster Center
Virtually every webmaster has heard of Google Webmaster Tools and use it regularly to check on the health of their site, unfortunately very few know of Live Search Webmaster Center which complements Microsoft Live Search. Recently I wrote about the … Continue reading
Google Analytics Mostly Streamlined Login Process
This week Google Analytics received a small upgrade – specifically related to the login process. Until now, no matter how often you use Google Analytics, as a user you were forced to login every time you returned to the site. … Continue reading
Live Search Webmaster Centre Drastically Improved
In the last few days, the Live Search Webmaster blog have posted about two significant improvements to the webmaster center, how Live Search crawls your site and more detailed backlink information. Live Search Webmaster Center now supports the following four … Continue reading
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Bitbucket, Hosted Mercurial Source Control
Bitbucket is the latest project by Jesper Nøhr. If the name looks familiar, it’s because I wrote about a Jesper in March when he used Django and Python as a rapid development environment for an indy advertising product named Indiego … Continue reading