I just completed a upgrade to Google Maps Api 2 of my Ebay Google Mashup.
The new version has a little better zoom-in abilitiy thanks to new Google Maps features. It no longer uses PDmarker which should make it perhaps a little faster. Google Maps Api 2 also uses new maps in France and Germany which […]
I have been traveling lately and will continue to do so for more than a week. I got notice that Google Maps Api version 2 might cause trouble with old applications. I will try to fix my scripts before they become obsolete but I am not sure I will have time to do it.
SEO is no longer only what you do your own site. Google has been trying to curb link farm so hard that it become a vulnerability. Black hat SEO’s are now selling the service to add bad back links to your domain in order to get it penalized by Google.
Google Calendar is now live. It seems to be open for anyone with a Google Account. I supports sharing of calendars which seems to be implemented nicely but it lacks real sync. It does support sending of notifications to us phones. There does not yet seem to be a pda/phone version of the Google Calendar.
Google Bombing was invented by Adam Mathes who now seems to have joined Google. Interestingly his original pranks, the failure of George Bush and the lair Tony Blair, are still in full effect. Other famous Google Bombs are gone such as weapons of mass destruction.
The Google Blog is reporting that the Google Toolbar v2 for Firefox now is available. It is so. And it will easily install.
I have been studying the Google bots on my site in detail the last couple of months. Their behavior is reminding me strongly of a project where I worked as a project manager. A big project where there had been no architect. A project were the results were not the same every time you ran […]
A lot of people were expecting some new cool Gmail features for April 1st. This has been the case the last couple of years. No new features this year. And no lauch of Google Calendar. Let’s hope that Google is not starting to get tired. That they will continue to shake computer world.
The big news […]