google: Our new Google bar inspired us to put together a brief history of Google’s navigation on our Google+ page http://t.co/gFsFRK3y

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Google exec: Online piracy bills in Congress wrong

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that it would be a mistake for Congress to approve Hollywood-backed legislation meant to combat online piracy because it would be ineffective and could fundamentally alter the way the Internet works.

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Cyber Monday 2011 is Biggest Online Shopping Day in History

comScore has reported that there was $1.25 billion in online spending on Cyber Monday 2011, which is up 22% from 2010.
Cyber Monday 2011 was the heaviest online spending day in history and only the second day ever to surpass the billion-dollar threshold.
U.S. retail e-commerce spending for the first 28 days of the November – December 2011 Christmas season has been $15 billion, which is a 15% increase from the same days in 2010.
Another increase for Cyber Monday was the percentage of people who shopped from work.
Half of the dollars spent online at U.S. Web sites originated from work computers, but this increase was slight with just a 1% rise over 2010.
Purchases from home comprised the majority of the remaining share (43.2%), and buying at U.S. Web sites from international locations accounted for the balance 6.6% of sales.
Press release: Cyber Monday Spending Hits $1.25 Billion to Rank as Heaviest [...]

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Dev Shed Forums – Seeking Website Partner w/ Web-programming & SEO exp

Date: November 30th, 2011 05:10 PM – leftysgirl – Seeking Website Partner w/ Web-programming SEO exp
Post: Hi,
I am seeking a website partner that has experience in web-programming and SEO.
My website is rentalology(dot)com
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App installed on millions of phones secretly records all activity

Mobile users, beware: you’re being watched – constantly. An Android developer claims to have discovered an app that comes pre-installed on millions of Android, BlackBerry and Nokia handsets, that records all activity on the device.

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Google Starts Rolling Out Yet Another Design Change

Google about six months ago started to roll out the black bar on top of most of their properties.

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Imagery Update: Week of November 28th

«The winter and holiday seasons are quickly approaching but that hasn’t stopped the Google Earth and Maps Imagery Team from updating aerial and satellite imagery throughout the globe. Today, we’d like to share several interesting features identified in this latest release. The first example…»   » source  |  + cache
 

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Tips for Multicultural Marketing

Yahoo! researchers reveal key differences across minority groups
With ethnic minorities in the U.S. now representing $2.5 trillion in buying power, brands are becoming increasingly fluent in multicultural marketing. In fact, at a recent ANA Conference, marketers from Pepsico, Home Depot, Miller Coors and Walmart revealed why appealing to ethnic consumers is key to future growth. To help marketers better understand African-American, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic audiences, Yahoo! and Mindshare partnered with Added Value on a comprehensive study that reveals what matters most to ethnic consumers and how to speak to their interests with an authentic voice.
 
What defines ethnic identity?
Not surprisingly, 7 in 10 minorities say that ethnicity is a significant part of their identity. Yahoo! researchers dug deeper and found that each ethnicity has a set of unique drivers that shape their ethnic identity. Music emerged as the top ethnic driver for African Americans. Political beliefs topped the list for [...]

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Celebrating the life of Mark Twain with a Google Doodle and Google Books

«In honor of Samuel Langhorne Clemens’ – better known to the world as Mark Twain – 176th birthday today, Google has prepared a special doodle evoking one the most famous scenes from one of Twain’s most famous novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . We at Google Books invi…»   » source  |  + cache
 

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AdSense API Office Hours announcement

«On October 25th we launched the AdSense Management API and have since followed up with instructive blog posts and forum discussions.
To provide you with even more avenues for having your questions answered, we invite you to our first AdSense API Office Hours Google+ Hangout .
We’…»   » source  |  + cache
 

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Young Innovators @ Google – Tova Wiener Nadler

«Introduction: Young Innovators @ Google is a blog series highlighting the great work of Googlers who, not too long ago, were students like you. In their short careers, these engineers and product managers have made a big impact on Google. This week we sat down with Tova Wiener Nadler, a software …»   » source  |  + cache
 

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Four Tips for Improving Your Mobile Web Map App

«We’ve had several new feature announcements for the Google Maps API in the last few months, including high resolution static maps , the new Street View Image API , and the use of high DPI map tiles in the JS Maps API on mobile devices. I’m here to give you some tips for usi…»   » source  |  + cache
 

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Collaboration at work: Global pharmaceutical company IPSEN is going Google

«Editors note: Today’s guest blogger is Franck Hémont, Group Informatics Engineering & Development Director at Ipsen, who is leading the company’s project to deploy Google Apps. Ipsen (Euronext: IPN, ADR: IPSEY), is a global specialty-driven pharmaceutical company. See what other orga…»   » source  |  + cache
 

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google: Tom Sawyer tricked his friends into helping celebrate Mark Twain’s 176th birthday w/ a panoramic doodle http://t.co/3ponPAvE

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Announcing version v201111 of the DFP API

«Today we’d like to introduce you to the v201111 version of the DoubleClick for Publishers API. v201111 is one of our largest versions yet; it includes some highly-requested features such as full support for mobile ad serving, new creative types including templates, video player environment targe…»   » source  |  + cache
 

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Top 5 things you should know about invalid clicks

«During the AdSense team’s recent policy webinars , a number of publishers posted questions on our Google Moderator page about invalid click activity and the resources available to help them protect their accounts. We’ve brought in experts from the Ad Traffic Quality team to address your to…»   » source  |  + cache
 

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JavaScript Client Library for Google APIs Alpha version released

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By Brendan O’Brien and Antonio Fuentes, Google Developer Team
Today we reached another milestone in our efforts to provide infrastructure and tools to make it easier for developers to use Google APIs: we have released the Google APIs Client Lib…»   » source  |  + cache
 

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Discover AdWords v201109 – CreateAccountService

«This week we released an addition to the v201109 version of the API, enabling one of the most commonly requested uses of the API: account creation. The CreateAccountService creates AdWords accounts without login emails (corresponding to the new optional-login feature available in the AdWords UI…»   » source  |  + cache
 

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SITEOPS: Conceptual design for land development

«Back in architecture school, I once had to lay out a parking lot for a building I was designing. What a terrible, terrible exercise in nitpicky details and perpetual re-arrangement. The solution I came up with accommodated all of four Smart cars and a unicycle. Awful. If only I’d had access to a t…»   » source  |  + cache
 

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Online Christmas Sales are Gigantic, Thanksgiving @CarnivalCruise, and the Kindle Fire

This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about Thanksgiving on a cruise ship, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and how Lisa has never seen Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

We also talked about the booths selling out at Affiliate Summit West 2012, the Get Motivated Business Seminar, and trying to eat at the Vince Young Steakhouse, because he had a good week in fantasy football.
Show Links

Huge Growth for Black Friday 2011 Online
A strong pace for Cyber Monday
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Kindle Fire
Affiliate Summit West 2012 Booths are Sold Out
Affiliate Summit West 2012 Has Raised $1,120 So Far to Fight Breast Cancer
Office Hours for Speakers at Affiliate Summit West 2012
Last Call for 2012 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards Nominations
Affiliate Summit Meetups
Get Motivated Business Seminar
Vince Young Steakhouse

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