Popular sites face upcoming redesigns
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 at 12:43 am
Both Google and Facebook are slated for redesigns sometime in the near future (or, in Facebook’s case, a re-redesign). While Google’s redesign may be a bit more minor, it’s still important, considering how popular the search engine is. Facebook’s redesign is much more noticeable, and I quite like it.
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Chrome OS: Worth your time?
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 at 11:39 pm
The big (and incredibly) obvious question with Chrome OS is if it will be worth your time. YOUR big question at this moment may be why this is on a web development blog… Well, this is a web-centric OS, and uses applications based solely in the cloud.
Now, back to the original question… Yes. Chrome OS looks like it will be worth your time, especially if you have a netbook.
Allow me to elabourate…
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Google buys Admob for $750 milions
Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Analytics says that mobile advertising market will be worth over three bilions of dollars in 2013, yet Google went ahead and already bought Admob mobile advertising and monetization solution for a shocking amount of $750 000 000.
Admob is typical marketplace where advertisers contact publishers and buy adverts directly from them. Admob platform has some nice features like mobile analytics and mobile metrics (which is pretty much the same functionality as in other advertising platforms but with “mobile” prefix). Read the rest of this entry »
Semantic Search Engines
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I read interesting article recently (btw i do not read my news, but if i did then i would probably found out that i begin each of them with the similar sentence), the article was about the future of search engines, mainly semantic search engines. I do not want to get into details here because as you know, English is not my native language and i am not sure if i could explain the whole concept clearly enough, so if you need more information on semantic search check out … correct, WikiPedia
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