Ah! It’s New Year and boy, I’m excited! A fresh breath of air, it promises new ventures, new ideas, new partnerships and a whole new experience. I’m sure just like 2007, 2008 is going to be a very eventful year for bloggers. So, wishing you all a very happy and exciting new year ahead, let’s see what happened last week here on the blogosphere.
Karen, at Google’s official blog has posted last years summary of blogging at Google Official Blog. It also has statistics and numbers. You can see some interesting ones…
Vanessa wrote an interesting article on Twitter, how would it help in generating traffic, how could you manage your personal and professional tweets etc. A very informative post aptly titled “Everything you needed to know about Twitter” worth bookmarking.
Simon gives you five ways to control how Google displays your content.
Caroline MiddleBrook reviews the Role Manager plugin for Wordpress, where she discusses how to make proper use of it.
Dustin Brewer puts up a nice list of 8 great digg like sites for designers. Mark writes an interesting post as well. He gives you 10…
Just a quick post to wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year.
The folks at Google Webmasters announced the new video sitemaps feature for webmasters last week, now you can help Google find all those videos stored at your website. Last week, the Live Search team made the Tafiti source code available. Tafiti is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results).
The AdSense team added a hide button in the “Manage Ads” page of the AdSense account, so that now it’s possible to hide the ads that are nor running or performing well from your dashboard.
Skellie writes…
It’s nearing the end of this year and a lot of cool things are cooking up for 2008. Let’s see what happened last week at the Blogosphere.
There were many writeups focused on what happened in 2007, and the evaluations. One that I found interesting is this post from David Armano, where he does an evaluation on the happenings at Social Media in 2007 and predicts that 2008 is going to be an year of Mobile Media. I’ll have to agree with David partly, and hope his prediction comes true. It…
