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YouTube Toolbar for Playlists

YouTube shows a small toolbar at the bottom of the page that lets you manage the videos from a playlist, more like the controls from a media player. The toolbar has options for pausing and muting the active video, buttons for playing the next video from the playlist and for automatically playing videos. All of these options were already available in the sidebar, but the new toolbar makes them more visible and it follows you in any YouTube page.

Source: Google Operating System

History of Graphic Design

History of Graphic Design from lectures by Nancy Stock-Allen, University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

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Microsoft adCenter Updates Keyword Research Tools

On the Microsoft adCenter blog, we're informed that there is a brand new "keyword research tool to help you more efficiently find keywords and plan campaigns in adCenter." The tool will provide suggested keywords, the ability to add keywords to...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Google Solicits Webmaster Help for Popular Picks Thread

A few months ago, we reported on Google Popular Picks -- topics that webmasters are interested in but may not have an "official" voice from the Google Webmaster Team (yet!). In a Google Groups thread, the Google team asks webmasters...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

FeedBurner Subscriber Stats Having Major Issues

Several Google Groups threads have been created in the last two weeks from disgruntled members who are running into issues with Feedburner In particular, their subscriber numbers are plummeting, which often occurs when Feedburner stops recording a service (and which...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Google AdSense Stops Displaying on Google Cache Results?

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that many publishers have started to notice that their Google AdSense ads are not showing up when someone accesses their pages via the Google cache. For example, a recent Google cache copy of my personal blog...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ad Manager Opens to All Publishers

Google's ad serving tool, Google Ad Manager (google.com/admanager/), which launched as a beta in March is now open to all publishers. If you are a publisher using OpenAds, OpenX, phpAdsNew or a similar product, you may want to strongly consider...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Is Google Changing Their Search Results HTML To Mess with Scrapers?

We have been covering the issues with search ranking checkers since beginning of this month. At first, we thought it might be related to WebPosition Gold only, but it was not, it impacted most, if not all, scraper based rank...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Google AdWords Marking "Great" Quality Scores as "OK"?

Google announced that the quality score metrics are more real time based on a per-query level, now. Not that this has been implemented on everyone's campaigns yet, but it will happen soon enough. Since then, advertisers have been noticing anomalies...

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

USPTO rejects Dell cloud computing trademark application

Dude, you're getting a Cloud Computer TM. It turns out that we may not have to fear hearing “Dude, you’re getting a Cloud Computer®!” in the future after all.

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Save 50% off Best of The Web Local Advertising

BOTW Local Directory, which Eric reviewed on SEJ, is offering a savings of 50% off the Premium Business details page, so instead of their price of $9.95 per month, advertisers can pay only $5 per month.

There are only 5 days left in the August promotion, so if you haven’t taken advantage of the offer, check out http://local.botw.org/premium.

Source: Search Engine Journal

Google Ad Manager Now Available to all Adsense Publishers

For several months now, some selected Adsense publishers have been beta testing Google’s hosted ad serving manager which as we said before is a good tool for letting Adsense in to your site’s unsold ad spots.

Source: Search Engine Journal

Is Google Moving Towards Becoming a Social Search Engine

If the series of tests that Google engineers are doing on their search portal is any indication of what may soon become of the Google Search, then we might be looking at Social-powered Google search engine in the near future.

Source: Search Engine Journal
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