ajb{log}: learn something new each day

I’ve been searching for a quick link to Google Profiles on Google.com and there really isn’t one that is obvious to the regular users. It’s actually buried in a help page from Google.

So, here is the link to your Google Profile, making it easy for everyone else who is having a hard time looking for it.

http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/me

Want to search for someone else’s profile on Google? Easy. Let’s say you are looking for Barack Obama’s Google Profile. Just go here…

http://www.google.com/s2/profiles?q= 

…then simply enter “Barack Obama”.

That was easy right? Yeah I know, it’s pretty cool.

Google just launched 30 new themes to Gmail.

Some people don’t see it yet. So, try to logout and re-login to see the new Themes at the Settings.

Really cool Gmail team!

I only manage my client’s affiliate every weekend and Performics’ ConnectCommerce is down. It’ seems like I’m gonna have to wait for now. Waste of time.

Sigh.

I don’t know if this has been announced already. But I just noticed a URL parameter on Google Ads. Coordinates.

They’re probably starting to track click coordinates on graphic ads. Google can/should provide Google Adwords users heatmap statistics on graphic ads pretty soon. A feature already being offered by Crazy Egg for some time now.

Gmail just pushed an update to their rich-text editor adding a bunch of emoticons.

Pretty cool!

–aj

How? All the video links have changed to http://youtube.com/v/FPd4yk0x-eg.swf now for you to watch it you’ll have to copy the video code (ex “FPd4yk0x-eg”) and paste it on a URL changing it to http://youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg for it to work.

Youtube team must have forgotten this particular RSS feed when they updated something.

I also noticed a new button on the video player window. Not sure what it is though. See below. This must be the latest update that broke all things up at the RSS feed.

So how do you drop an “o” at Google? Just append “&num=100&start=990” without the quotes at the URL after any search.

Google will surely drop one “o”. I wonder why?

Credits

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:
%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88%E2%96%88

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?