May 12th, 2008 - This is rather local news for us New Yorkers, but it has just been announced that Cablevision beat out Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zuckerman to buy Newsday for $650 million. Cablevision provides cable television, cable Internet, and voip service to the tri-state area (the areas of New York, New... (Read More)

Mar 11th, 2008 - When I attended the Jeeves retirement party at Search Engine Strategies 2005 in NYC, I never thought that the makeover from AskJeeves.com to Ask.com would end with the site being rebranded, only a very few years later, as a women's niche search engine. Can we say floundering? AskJeeves... (Read More)

Jul 1st, 2006 - I would like to formally announce the first of many upcoming DaniWeb member competitions. The prize for this first competition is valued at $250! So what do you have to do? Just blog!! Get your voice heard! I promise you that you'll be surprised by how many people out there really are... (Read More)

Jan 3rd, 2006 - If you're in the SEO industry, most likely you're familiar with the Search Engine Roundtable at www.seroundtable.com, a blog / feed of all of the webmaster forums around. However, I just clicked on the "Forums" tab tonight to find my familiar list of other webmaster forums gone. In its place is... (Read More)

Oct 22nd, 2005 - I just went to WebmasterWorld and noticed that ... well ... it no longer exists? It looks as if it is now http://www.searchengineworld.com/ although I'm still a little confused. There are only a very few forums. Was this a merger? Hmm ... (Read More)

Aug 30th, 2005 - My friend Darren from Google just informed me a couple of minutes ago that Google Notifier is out in beta ... for the mac! You can check it out at: http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/index?promo=gdl-en Now comes the time when I thank Darren for considering the fact that I'm a mac girl and... (Read More)

Aug 24th, 2005 - Talk is cheap, or so they say. At least it is with Google Talk beta ... Google's new IM /voice client! You can check it out at www.google.com/talk/ - I have yet to try it but I'm going to go ahead and download it right now. It seems like this might be one of the new features of the upcoming Google... (Read More)

Aug 11th, 2005 - ValueClick has recently announced plans to acquire a competing advertising network, FastClick. ValueClick currently owns three properties: PriceRunner, an online price comparison service, Commission Junction (CJ), an affiliate network, and Mediaplex, an ad serving technology. FastClick would... (Read More)

Aug 3rd, 2005 - Today, Yahoo! introduced their new Publisher Network, a "new self-serve platform that will provide small- and medium-sized web publishers with easy access to yahoo! advertising and content." In other words, it's a direct alternative to Google AdSense. The program, which the webmaster community... (Read More)

Oct 2nd, 2004 - Hey there everyone. Long time no post... and that's because I just went out and bought The Sims 2 the other day, and I just have to say how much I love it! I'm not a gamer by any means. The only games I really ever play are simulations ... Simcity, Simcity 4, The Sims with all the expansion... (Read More)

Apr 4th, 2008 - Google has finally implemented something that I've been requesting for quite awhile ... The ability to group statistics by day, week, or month. This is an immensely useful tool when trying to chart trends and patterns. For example, instead of just being able to group statistics by day, we now... (Read More)

Mar 26th, 2008 - I just logged into my Google AdWords campaign management to find a new feature: demographic bidding. This new feature allows you to bid on, or exclude, certain demographic groups, such as users of a certain age or gender. A new reporting tool in the campaign management settings shows you a... (Read More)

Mar 13th, 2008 - According to a story on Reuters, it appears that Google is planning on using their newfound acquisition of the DoubleClick ad server to launch a new (and free) Ad Manager service ... essentially providing a free ad server to publishers (mind you a service that mid to large size online publishers... (Read More)

Mar 11th, 2008 - I logged into my Google Analytics account tonight only to be presented with a new option: Benchmarking Beta. Apparently you can opt into a program that lets Google anonymously datamine all of your statistics. (At first you're always thinking why on earth you would want to opt into this.) However,... (Read More)

Mar 10th, 2008 - Google, in my opinion, made a couple of mistakes in Q1 with the way they've handled changes in Google AdSense. For example, they made the change of making only AdSense titles and urls clickable instead of the entire ad unit, saying that it will lead to fewer people clicking accidentally, raising... (Read More)

May 8th, 2007 - This morning I logged into Google Analytics and noticed a message mentioning a brand new interface, and yet, everything looked the same. Now, a couple of hours later, I just logged back in and, indeed, noticed a massive revamp for Google Analytics. The first thing I notice is the much larger... (Read More)

Apr 14th, 2007 - It's been a couple of years now that Google has been in the contextual advertising game, serving up ads not just in the search results, but also across the network of AdSense publishers. AdSense has since become a dream come true for many small publishers realizing they can make some cash from... (Read More)

Apr 7th, 2007 - What appears to be a brand new feature of our beloved Google is the ability to "Note" any URL which turns up in the search results. Noting a URL adds it to your personal notebook, which works like a scrapbook ala bookmarks. Pretty interesting ... although I'm still a fan of IE favorites, browser... (Read More)

Feb 12th, 2007 - A recent visit into Google's Webmaster Tools has brought a new section to my attention which I would imagine would be of much interest to SEOs: Internal and External links. The table of Internal links seems interesting - a listing of pages on your domain that have links pointing to them from... (Read More)

May 21st, 2006 - I've heard rumors of this coming for awhile, but I finally saw it while browsing DaniWeb just a couple of minutes ago. A box ad that I run with a white background, which usually displays four ads, now displays three. The extra room is reserved for some text links with a bunch of keywords, similar... (Read More)

Feb 21st, 2006 - While working on the new DaniWeb Event Calendar feature, I did a Google search regarding the vBulletin built-in calendar feature. Built right into the search engine results pages was the statement: In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed... (Read More)

Feb 20th, 2006 - For those of you webmasters out there who are running Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics) then you can welcome a new feature ... site overlay. It's a feature that so far I have only seen in paid analytics software, so it's definitely a more than welcome addition. Google Analytics... (Read More)

Mar 16th, 2008 - This is rather belated news, but I figured it was worth posting anyways. Apple has recently unveiled larger capacity versions of the iTouch and iPhone. The iTouch, originally only available in 8 gig and 16 gig versions, now boasts a whopping 32 gig version with a $500 pricetag. The iPhone began... (Read More)

Mar 10th, 2008 - In an effort to compete with the Blackberry, and gain momentum in the business world, the iPhone now has full support for Microsoft Exchange, one of the major factors holding the professional back from splurging on an iPhone. While Apple is now going full force trying to make the iPhone... (Read More)

Mar 10th, 2008 - Well, it looks like the latest installment of Microsoft's browser, IE8, is now available for download in beta status. While I'm not daring enough to give it a go myself, word on the street is that, while Microsoft boasts it passes the ACID2 test, it renders most sites rather awkwardly, to the point... (Read More)

Jun 7th, 2006 - Well, I just got myself through a major disaster. A couple of days ago, vBulletin, the forum system which powers the core of DaniWeb, released a shiny new version, vB 3.6. Every day since, they've been announcing new features - many of which look just awesome! This afternoon, they finally... (Read More)

May 6th, 2006 - Two of the largest webhosting companies around, www.ev1servers.com (formerly RackShack) and The Planet (www.theplanet.com) have announced a merger today. The merger is a result of both being bought out by investment company GI Partners. As of right now, things are still in flux, and the only... (Read More)