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2006/6/29

checkout google checkout

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@ 01:46 PM (40 months, 27 days ago)
Full imageA long awaited online payment tool from Google: checkout.google.com. Lightweight signup process; probably soon the integration to the personalised google homepage. Let's hope that customers trying to purchase with it will get more than the near-by image (api probably overloaded).

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2006/6/23

google phone interview

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@ 01:24 PM (41 months, 3 days ago)
I was recently contacted by one of Google's recruiters for a technical position that they open here in Munich. It could be that I used to run some pretty interesting projects online and this might have raised their attention. It's quite common I guess, at the rate of their expansion. However, recently I don't do much of what I used to; and don't know what they saw in me.

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2006/4/13

google cal

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@ 11:53 AM (43 months, 14 days ago)
google calendarit appears that the rumours were true, and the rounded borders are back. I really wish to see what succes would any of these new desktop extensions enjoy without the bang and wiggles of google meme protection.

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2006/3/28

around google reader

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@ 06:22 PM (43 months, 29 days ago)
Update 2006-11-13: Google reader just got better.

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2006/3/16

blog statistics with Performancing

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@ 06:19 AM (44 months, 12 days ago)
A fresh new tool: Performancing Metrics from performancing.com allows any blog owner to track visitor patterns and seems to be specially tailored towards blogs. The interface is very clean and seems to be far more mature than all the web 2.0 rounded corners invasion we saw lately. It was time maybe that focus came back to content from presentation. There's also a very useful Firefox extension.
Compared to the sophisticated google analytics, it's far more simpler to install; runs very fast and they seem to have no performance problems in a 24hour 2500++ blogs growth.

2006/3/14

vast.com - online classifieds

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@ 10:31 AM (44 months, 14 days ago)
Via TechCrunch, here's the most recent blog buzz: Vast.com just launched; another online experiment in the online classifieds area. With an impressive count of 3 billion indexed pages, and an open-minded API right from the start, they seem to be heading agressivelly up. They feature car ads, jobs and personal profiles from the crawled data, and spider blogs as well.

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2005/11/24

google's click to call

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@ 11:11 AM (48 months, 4 days ago)
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/898/google28qf.jpg here's some fresh news for adwords users. Google started testing their new application, called click to call (screenshots, FAQ, slashdot). It's basically an extension to Adwords, by which advertisers can reach web users by phone. The search for certain keywords brings a small telephone icon, and when it is clicked, one can enter his phone number. Then Google calls both parties, via some VoIP protocols it seems, and connects them. The billing is done on the advertiser side; via adwords, therefore the call is free for the user. Google invested a lot into VoIP protocols, and will probably loose money at first by investing them into infrastructure, but will soon recover them via adwords. Most adwords advertisers already have up to date phone numbers in their accounts, therefore just one approval away, we'll see massive scale phone advertisement real.

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2005/11/14

Google analytics

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@ 07:14 AM (48 months, 14 days ago)
http://www.google.com/analytics/images/intro_small.jpgGoogle just released their application: Google Analytics; after they bought it from Urchin. It targets mainly Adwords webmasters, and claims to offer them an analytical tool to improve their ROI. Conversion tracking, keywords statistics, executive, marketer and webmaster perspectives. Main graphs they display:
  • the total number of visits and pageviews your site received, the average number of pageviews per visit (P/V), and the number of visits and pageviews over time
  • the number of first-time visits and returning visits
  • the cities from which the most visitors come to your site
  • your top referral sources.
What will get interesting is how the daily data will correlate to the historical data; if they ever keep track of that.

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