Come early May, Google will stop the position preference bidding feature, which sets bids to achieve a certain position on the page automatically, in Google AdWords. The company is recommending advertisers who use the feature to disable it before the announced date (early date) so that their will be a smooth transition for their bids. [...]

We are 38 days away from Christmas but Google decided to give local search lovers their Christmas present early, in the form of HotPot, a personalized rating and recommendation engine from the search giant. While this is not the first type of rating/recommendation engine of its kind out there, i.e. Yelp, etc., the recently delivered [...]

How do I make a copy of a form or a document from Gmail email and then complete the form using the computer? I have tried and have achieved the level of “No Luck”. So I wind up printing the form and completing the form manually. Then I scan it and send it to whomever. [...]

As of the 19th of October 2005 all new users signing up for a GMail/Google Mail in the UK have been given an @googlemail.com address instead of a @gmail.com email address. This was due to a dispute regarding the Gmail trademark in the UK, as another company “Independent International Investment Research (IIIR)” had claimed rights to the Gmail name. [...]

I had a chance to be on a panel at Internet Summit ’09 with several interesting folks, among them Rick Klau, the Business Product Manager for Blogger at Google. My very first blog, Life is Marketing, was a Blogger blog, but I had to wonder how Blogger was faring in an era of microblogging (like [...]

With all the hype about the Nexus One today, and knowing that I am still in the market for a cell phone, I wanted to see what all they might have that would make this more interesting. The problem is going through the web interface of the Android Market Place simply stinks – only top [...]

There is a character on Dilbert called Mordac. If you’ve seen him, you know he is a caricature of an unfortunately real person in many corporate organizations who worries solely about data security at the expense of usability, accessibility and just about anything else: We all hate Mordac. Of course, on a logical level, most [...]