Archive for March, 2009

Google Ventures – Google announces new venture capital arm

Continuing its venture evolution, Google is announcing today a new venture capital arm — Google Ventures — aimed at adding profits to Google’s portfolio.  It already has two ventures (source: NYTimes) that relate to potential future core businesses: “Silver Spring Networks, a company that makes technology to help manage electric grids, and Pixazza, which links [...]

New Google AdWords Interface

Google has come out with its new Google AdWords Interface (still in beta).  I played around with it a bit and am liking it better than the current/main interface — it allows you to bounce between more data in less time and lays out the data well.
Here is the note they sent out…
Try a New [...]

Colorado Weather Takes Over Google Trends

Colorado (Denver Metro area) is having a big snow storm today, somewhere between 6″ and 2′ (probably a foot).  And while most people would know this from looking out the window or watching the weather radar map, it is showing up in an interesting place: Google Trends.
20 of the top 100 Google Trend keywords are [...]

Newspapers go online-only: SeattlePI.com & InDenverTimes.com

The E.W. Scripps Co. shut down the Rocky Mountain News on Feb 27th 2009 after nearly 150 years as a Denver newspaper. It may live on in an independent online-only form as InDenverTimes.com if it can attract 50,000 subscribers.  Read more here: “Ex-Rocky Mountain News staffers plan news Web site” …and on YouTube here and [...]

Google rolls out AdSense interest-based advertising

 Here is the note Google sent out to AdSense users. I’ll let you know more about it once it is up and running.
Hi,
We’re writing to let you know about the upcoming launch of interest-based advertising, which will require you to review and make any necessary changes to your site’s privacy policies. You’ll also see some [...]