3 days ago, GMail Team started to roll out an experimental feature that should help you work even harder. Offline GMail :-).
The functionality is very simple. Once activated, GMail uses Google Gears to build a local cache of your emails.
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About 10 days ago I tried to move my feedburner feeds to its new location. As you already know, I was blocked by some error message related to one of my feeds being in use. Today, Feedburner replied:
Hello,
We’ve resolved the conflict on our side. You should try migrating again, and it should work this time. Thanks for your patience.
Thanks for contacting the FeedBurner team
Our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance this coming Saturday, January 10th. You won’t be able to log in to your AdSense or Google Ad Manager accounts between 10am and 2pm PST, but we’ll continue recording your impressions, clicks, and earnings. In addition, your ad serving won’t be affected by this maintenance period.
For our international readers, here’s the maintenance start time converted for a few cities:
London - 6pm Saturday
Algiers - 7pm Saturday
Kolkata - 11:30pm Saturday
Jakarta - 1am Sunday
Auckland - 7am SundaySource AdSense blog
Without any relation with the AdSense maintenance, did you noticed the new AdSense favicon? :-)
I have notice an ad with there.com on it and an invitation to join this virtual There community.
Obviously, I have made a little research and I have found that the website is quite old, starting back in December 24, 1997 as The Anonymizer, a free proxy website (surf the web anonymously-like website), an anonymous point of access for all of you who cannot visit different websites from work. Yeah, something like hidemyass.com :-)
What happend with there.com in the last 11 years?
… I would be the happiest man around because VLC Media Player 0.9.6 is the best player I have ever used because it plays ANY video file I want, even the temp files that DC++ is using :-).
Anyway, as you will see I also use VLC to relate good news. :-)
The first one is about a book, a SEO book, The Non-profit Guide to Search Engine Marketing. It contains a lot of useful information and PeterD also succeeded to put together some extraordinary SEO tools.
The second news is a financial one, related in a way to the actual international financial crisis.
Logistics software provider Descartes Systems Group said it had net income of $2.3 million in the quarter ending Oct. 31, compared to $1.7 million in the same period the prior year. Revenues for the quarter were $17.0 million, up 10 percent from $15.5 million during the same period the prior year.
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This economical crisis has come with a lot of interesting news. And jokes. “The new economical crisis affected also the social relationships. That being told, the latest news is that women are actually forced to marry for love…” :-)
Anyway, I have found out that maybe there is hope… The November 24th Symantec report details an online underground economy that has matured into an efficient, global marketplace in which stolen goods and fraud-related services are regularly bought and sold, and where the estimated value of goods offered by individual traders is measured in millions of dollars.
Symantec
Youtube Live event just ended few minutes ago. Even that as a user that watched the show live on the internet, I was warned about the fact that I will see something that I have never seen online, I can tell you now that those guys did not lied!
I don’t know about you but I think this is historical. Registered on 15-Feb-2005 Youtube succeeded to be one of the top3 world wide websites, based on Alexa’s reports.
Youtube Live Page
The Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairperson and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation Winifred Mitchell Baker has published Mozilla’s financial statements for 2007.
Mitchell Baker - The Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation
There are 2 news that made me publish this article. In spite of the fact that we are in the middle of an international financial crisis, seems to me that online businesses are in that narrow corner of those few positive financial signals these days.
