Presenting the meta_tag plugin for the Smarty templating engine! Click here to download block.meta_tag.txt Click here to download outputfilter.meta_tag.txt This plugin allows you to change
Lively, currently in beta, is Google’s answer to Second Life. The downloadable application allows you to create rooms, decorate them to your liking, then make
Following its acquisition of DoubleClick, Google is cutting 300 staff. More info from the Guardian.
Search behemoth Google has announced a new tool to rival Wikipedia. Currently known as “knol” (it stand for a unit of knowledge, apparently), its object
Ask.com has launched a UK map service similar to offerings from Google and Microsoft. The postcode for our office brings up the following result: Cheers
Google is rumoured to be planning a rival to the 3D virtual world Second Life, scheduled to be launched late 2007. If this is true
I’ve been playing around the Tafiti beta, which uses Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. The system is little more than a proof of concept at the moment,
Following the appearance of thousands of Google Maps mashups, Google have introduced a new technology to encourage further user interaction. The “mapplets” (mini-webpages inside an
A website has recently launched that allows surfers to search Yahoo and Google simultaneously, providing side by side results for instant comparison. The website, searchboth.com,
As reported on Ars Technica, Google seems to have sneakily added some rudimentary face recognition filtering to its image searches. Search for ‘ferrari’ and you’ll
Search behemoth Google has acquired DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, following a bidding war with Microsoft, AOL and (allegedly) Yahoo!. The sale gives Google access to
After over thirty years in private beta, Google’s Gmail is finally available to the general public. It’s a pretty good offering too: Gmail’s spam protection
He-of-many-Riks Lomas has launched Microsummaries.org, an online resource dedicated to the Microsummaries feature in Firefox 2. Microsummaries – next big thing or white elephant? More
Google have launched Google Docs, yet another online application. Merging Google Spreadsheets with Docs (originally Writely, purchased by Google earlier this year), the service is
Google seem set to purchase video sharing site YouTube in a staggering $1.6 billion deal, if rumours are to be believed. Google’s own video service
Google have launched Google Image Labeler, a “game” created to help improve the quality of search results returned by Google Images. It’s an intriguing concept:
Goggles is a fun flight simulator game that uses graphical data from Google Maps. A great idea from Mark Caswell-Daniels.
SitePoint have published “The Ultimate SEO Guide” – a comprehensive article covering the fundamentals of search engine optimisation, written by Shirley Kaiser. The guide includes
Yahoo! have launched a radical overhaul of their site this week. The emphasis seems to be on usability and speed of navigation: the homepage still
The popular SitePoint author Matt Mickiewicz has interviewed Jakob Nielsen, the usability evangelist (or usability fetishist, depending upon your perspective), on AJAX (deemed “irrelevant”), contextual
The results of a survey conducted by Click Forensics suggests that more than 1 in 10 clicks on online ads is fraudulent. The latest figure
After months of speculation, Google have finally launched Google Checkout, their eagerly anticipated rival to the ubiquitous PayPal. As the feature tour demonstrates, the objective