Google NoteBook & Social Bookmarking

May 29, 2006

Google NoteBook | Google Labs

With the Notebook Offering, Google intends to extend its vertical search, social bookmarking and desktop searching capabilities…..the idea behind Google NoteBook being that you can use it to take notes about web pages and keep them in as many ‘notebooks’ as you wish within Google.

You can keep your NoteBooks private, or make them publicly accessible. Also your Notebooks can be sectionalized and can contain images and/or text.

In order to enjoy the features of Google NoteBook it must be installed in your computer as a Firefox extension or as a Internet Explorer plugin.

Summary of features

With Google NoteBook you can:

Clip and collect useful information as you browse the web - You can add clippings of text, images and links from web pages to your Google Notebook without ever leaving your browser window.

Organize your notes - You can create multiple notebooks, divide them into sections, and drag-and-drop your notes to stay organized.

Get access from anywhere - You can access your Google Notebooks from any computer by using your Google Accounts login.

Publish your notebook - You can share your Google Notebook with the world by making it public.

To learn more about Google Notebook, please visit Google’s overview page.

Notes: Other products recently released by Google include:

1. Google Trends - Which lets users see how popular a search term has been over time, along with relevant news items about that topic.

2. Google Co-op - Google Co-op is a platform which enables you to use your expertise to help other users find information.

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Website Update - 05.26.2006

May 26, 2006

This update was emailed to all authors on 05.26.2006

Afro Articles is almost three months old and we are kicking like a young stud!

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Yahoo, eBay team up on e-commerce

May 25, 2006

By Margaret Kane

Story last modified Thu May 25 07:30:08 PDT 2006

Yahoo and eBay are teaming up as the Internet search and commerce markets grow even more competitive.

The two companies said Thursday they are forming a multiyear partnership centered on advertising, e-commerce and search. As part of the deal, Yahoo will become the exclusive third-party provider of all graphical ads on eBay and will also provide new text ads on some search results pages, a Yahoo representative said.

Specific financial details were not released, but both companies said that the deal would not be material to 2006 results and that any financial impact for 2007 and beyond would be detailed when the companies issue their outlooks for that period.

Yahoo will make eBay’s PayPal service the exclusive third-party provider of its online wallet, allowing customers to pay for Yahoo services from bank accounts, credit cards or balances associated with their PayPal accounts. PayPal will also be integrated into product offerings for Yahoo merchants and publishers, including the Yahoo Publisher Network, Yahoo Search Marketing and Yahoo Merchant Solutions.

The two companies will also explore co-developing their respective voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. That project will look at releasing “click-to-call” ad technologies on their Web sites, using both Yahoo Messenger with Voice and eBay’s Skype service.

Yahoo search and site links will be integrated into a co-branded version of the eBay toolbar, the companies said.

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MSN allows opting out of Open Directory listing descriptions for webmasters

May 25, 2006

“Even though these human-edited descriptions provide a lot of value, with human editing may come human error, bias, descriptions getting outdated, or the editor’s text may simply not suit the webmasters who want to be represented in their own way.” - MSN

I have been a victim of what I consider bias by the so-called ‘human editors’ at DMOZ. This site was summarily yanked out for no tangible reason.

DMOZ a.k.a “Open Directory Project (ODP)” is open to abuse by competitors, biased and even bigoted editors. Do not mis-construe this as a sweeping statement condemning a whole bunch of editors, but in an imperfect world such as ours there is bound to be some who don’t like others for all kinds of reasons, ranging competitive bias to everything imaginable.

I applaud MSN and I hope Yahoo and Google follow suit.

Read about it at the MSN Search’s WebLog.

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