I just got a mail from Venture beat which was just headlines and ads

See it for yourself ..

is this a glitch in adsense for feeds or is VentureBeat running short of cash for its servers

I would expect to see a paypal donate button if its the latter

I m indeed surprised at this move by google to launch a browser product ..

Google Chrome was released a few hours back for download ..

Google did it first with gtalk, reinvented IM. some people felt it lacked a lot of stuff . but for me gtalk is my primary IM now .. its just simple and clutter free..

Now Google is doing the same thing with Chrome. The main idea behind the product is to simplify Web Browsing and they have done a great job .. the initial version of the product looks impressive ..

I m a Web Developer and I was impressed when I saw that development tools came bundled . Also there’s a fancy task manager which I have not seen in any browser so far.

I always have a passion for monitoring pageranks of my websites and other websites.

I use the Google toolbar and   Live PR (currently down) for monitoring current page rank.

For Page Rank Prediction / Future Rank I have used a lot of websites like

http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction and http://www.rustybrick.com/pagerank-prediction.php

iwebtool and rusty used to work like a charm, but not anymore.

Has Google banned users from finding out future page rank ? or is the algorithm these tools are based on a failure for a change in Google’s Algo?

Only one tool at PageRankPrediction seems to be working now.

Is Google going to revive the paid mail service market ?

The signup page shows

$50/user/year, billed annually. You can add more later, if you like.

 Google Apps

Real funny pic i came across here

Google is going to join the domain registration bandwagon in a bid to attract more users for its Google Apps for your Domain .

From Google Blog

Well, I’m excited to let you know that we’ve made signing up for Google Apps for Your Domain much easier for those of you that don’t yet have your own domain. We’ve partnered with GoDaddy.com and eNom, two leading domain registration services, to offer domains for $10 per year. And I like the fact that we’re including private registration to protect your personal information.

For now this is available for .com, .net,.org, .biz, and .info domains only.

I managed to read somewhere that Google calendar is offering SMS notification support in India. I logged on to the site, only to be disappointed.

Airtel TamilNadu is not in the list of supported operators.

How are Search engines going to work in 2007 ?

Things might not change much , but just get the basics right.

• Quality of links matters ,not quantity – this has been there since the beginning but from now on more importance will be given to quality of links
• Avoid 302 Redirects completely – Matt Cutts had pointed out that this can get your site / page of the listings if you use 302s
• Be careful about link exchanges
• Refrain from link spam
• Get links from relevant sites
• Focus more on semantic content,usability – let the javascript menus die. AJAX enabled websites might suffer on this front as they are heavy on javascript.
• Session IDs are a strict no, get rid of them (Why use sessions on public pages ? )

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Head to gmail.com/app on your mobile .

This j2me app from google rocks.

will post screencaps soon

Youtube.com is now part of the Google family.

Can’t still see the copyrigth google tag at the bottom of the youtube website which is the normal change you can expect after a google acquisition.

official release