Today Google announced that the changes made to the referral portion of the Google AdSense program are no longer valid.

After hear some of the big time bloggers cry they decided to make more changes to the program

Now:

• Anyone in the world can join the program but you will only earn money if the signups come from North America, Latin America or Japan
• Or what is the same to say that they will only pay you if you get a referral from a country they are not doing very well

Today Google announced that they are planning a huge repository of science at research.google.com

Codename “Palimpsest” the project will be home a terabytes of open-source scientific datasets built on the data visualization technology from Trendalyzer

It looks like the new site will be some sort of YouTube for science that will include images from the Hubble Telescope, etc.

Also today you will start reading all over the net stories from scared people telling you that Google is getting way to big.

As from today Yahoo is integrating delicious user generated bookmarks into its search results pages.

You can view an example here

It was about time for the Yahoo people to finally use this wonderful tool they bought back in 2005 for their “search benefit”

I am looking after how users will react. As for me… they save me a step. I no longer have to go to delicious to check a result.

Via TechCrunch

I’ve just decided to give Zuggu to a good friend of mine who will take good care of a new site he has in mind. In the meantime I will keep this blog alive (which I haven’t for the past months) and work on some new projects I have on my to do list for some time.

Strings is the first super beta release of the Zuggu Labs. The concept is just the opposite of what you can see at Zuggu.com.

The idea behind Strings is that the content is received via numerous sources and using some “intelligent” formulas and depending on the user interest it receives more or less exposure.

Here the user does not have to submit the content but just to be interested on it to give it credit.

Right now what you will see is just a super beta release. This means that this has nothing to do with the actual final product we have in our mind, but I just wanted to test reactions.

Right now there are 3 Strings:

• Make Money Online
• Facebook
• Google

We will be adding the Apple String really soon together with some others and features like “latest comments” ,”deep” to the articles and “User Profiles”.

Please note that by registering at Strings you will be able to use all of the coming tools we will be releasing under the labs. We thought that it was a good idea to make a unique user id for all of our Zuggu releases.

Feel free to leave you reactions.

It seems that, if you’re hiring, Google is the New Microsoft and Facebook is the New Google. According to Michael.. yeah that Michael… Google is internally trying to solve the “Facebook Problem”. At least ten “top performers “have made the switch over the las two months”

Developer Justin Rosenstein “exit letter” is quoted on the Infectious Greed blog, saying Facebook is “the Google of yesterday, the Microsoft of long ago. That company where large numbers of stunningly-brilliant people
congregate and feed off each other’s genius. That company that’s doing
with 60 engineers what teams of 600 can’t pull off.”

Is Google loosing its magic?

Smart Googlers are moving to Facebook | Technology | Guardian Unlimited

Hello Readers! This post is to let you know that I will be releasing new tools soon together with a Zuggu Lab.

As I said many times before, what you see right now at Zuggu is just one of the many tools I have in mind for you, so I decided to create a Zuggu Lab where I will post all of this new tools, and depending on how well they do, some will graduate (get their own domain and become a real application), and some wont.

Please follow me in this new path, and I really hope to see you around and hear form you.

The release of the first of this tools (in beta obviously :p ) will be this week.

MySpace has invited Facebook, its key rival, to join OpenSocial. Chris DeWolfe, chief executive of MySpace, said that Palo Alto-based
Facebook was likely to be under pressure to consider joining the
initiative. MySpace and Facebook are the two largest U.S. social
networking sites by number of users.

Will Facebook join? Don’t count on that.

Yahoo! Launched Kickstart today. It is a social network (yes, another one) dedicated to connect college students, recent grads, and professionals together.

I think that companies are pushing too hard the concept of networking as a way of achieving things. At lest this is how this kind of social networks (linkedin, kickstart, etc) are advertising themselves.
I think its already time to move to the next step. We all understand that social networks are good, that relationships are good, and all those combined are a good way to show who you are and what you are able to do… but… I think that we already have most of the necessary tools to do that and is time to move forward… or are we going to make social networks forever?

Yahoo! Kickstart