ajb{log}: learn something new each day

Here it is:

“Publishers with websites, creating content
Wondering about their sites
If with their content, they could show some ads
Before the day was done
Something in AdSense, was so inviting
Something about those ads, was so exciting
Something in our Help Center
Told them they must be one
Publishers with websites, yearning for earnings
They were just publishers with websites
Up to the moment
When they placed their first ad code
Little did they know
Revenue was just a click away
A happy-user-generated click away and –
Ever since that day, they’ve been monetizing
Newbies at the start, they’re now optimizing
It turned out so right
For publishers with websites.
Newbie, newbie dooo, da da da daaaa da…”

Originally posted here

This is great news for all Gmail junkies. I personally dislike that (un)feature. Here’s what Google posted on their blog:

“Google has finally realized that it’s a bad idea to automatically add to the list of Gmail contacts all the people you’ve sent an email. An updated version of Gmail’s contact manager has a separate section for the people you’ve emailed: “suggested contacts”.”

I love this move. Now, I have to give some time cleaning up my Gmail’s contacts because it’s currently marred with emails I don’t personally know.

Love it Gmail team!

More information

Here’s the bytecode:
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Found at:
http://obvious.com/secret…itter-20080709-151432.jpg
http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/854077761
http://www.andrewmager.co…%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88/

Google also doesn’t know it

Here try it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Pretty cool huh?

We’ve finally completed our partnership with SimplyHired, Indeed, WowJobs and Kapehan for job aggregation and distribution. SimplyHired is also providing a job search engine for LinkedIn Canada and MySpace UK.

What does this mean to you as an employer?
Aside from our great visibility at search engines (Google, Yahoo! and Live), your job ads will have further exposure thru our job aggregators. This exponentially increases the visibility of your job openings to job seekers who are visiting social networks and other services.

How do I get my job there?
SimplyHired, Indeed and WowJobs only list jobs that have specific locations such as city and state/province. So next time you post a job, make sure you don’t forget to choose a city and state/province. This is however, not applicable for country-wide job postings.

New Employer Dashboard Features

• View your subscription details
• View and print your invoices
• Did your subscription expire? No problem. You can login and re-subscribe inside your dashboard under “Settings > Subscription”
• We have more updates on our blog…

Mployd is an honorable mention at the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards

We have received an honorable mention at the recent 2008 SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards and we are fast becoming one of the largest job posting website on the Internet today and slowly taking market share away from some of the largest employment job sites.

Mployd Affiliate Network Launched

We are proud to announce the launch of our new affiliate program. This will allow website owners to make some extra cash promoting Mployd. So, if you want to monetize your existing traffic, sign up as an affiliate now!

More information here

Google’s Picasa was showing a 500 Internal Server Error a few times today. Google must be doing some maintenance or something…

It’s working fine right now. But was like this several minutes ago.

New Videos from googletechtalks

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I’m probably one of the first early users to get access to Woopra’s beta couple of months ago. Quite frankly, I didn’t use it. I felt Woopra wasn’t going to be as good as what we currently use (Google Analytics). I even said to myself, “it’s just gonna be another Google Analytics with the same sets of data. What can they probably offer? What else is new?”

But as soon as I read about Woopra on CenterNetworks this morning, I gave it a whirl. I logged in to my Woopra account, copy/pasted the JS snippet on Mployd. I thought it would take some time for the data to funnel to my dashboard.

And so I tried to download and install the Woopra desktop application. To my surprise, data from the site is already crunching in!

Here’s a screenshot of the Woopra desktop application on my machine after I installed it.

See that? After 10 mins I’m already getting what I need to know from our visitors. That’s really neat!

And one cool thing about it is that it sits on my desktop/system tray for quick access. Woopra integrated a lot of awesome features into the app aside from analytics. There’s just too much to list them down here.

The Woopra desktop application is currently available in beta to Windows, MacOS, and Linux (note that Java is required to run the app).

We know that Google Analytics dominates the free web analytics space. I’d say Woopra can quickly become #2 with the added innovations to the app.

I’ve tried almost every single free web analytics app out there and Woopra is a breath of fresh air. I simply love it.

–aj

Guys, do you remember Konami’s Contra? It’s the same cheat code! Use it on Google Reader to show the easter egg.

UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A

Cool huh?

To remove it, just “Refresh” your browser.

–aj

Yes. This is my newest browser home page. Goosh (http://goosh.org).

This is a unix-shell-like interface for Google. If you are like me who miss the quick links at the upper left hand corner of google for reader and Gmail. Just type in “l gmail” for Gmail and “l reader” for Google Reader.

For more quick commands, use “h”.

I don’t think I’m going back to the google.com interface if goosh.org improves the speed. Recommended to all geeks!

Wtg!

–aj

Hello.com a photo sharing site which was a part of Picasa Web Albums is scheduled to be shut down on May 15th.

Goodbye Hello. It was nice meeting you.

–aj