• Amazon Coins Now Available On The Kindle Fire
  [May 14, 2013] Back in February, Amazon announced that Amazon Coins, its new virtual currency, would be coming to Kindle Fire devices in May. It’s May, and today, the company announced that the currency is now available.
• Developers Participate In The Ungrounded Hackathon 30,000 Feet Above Ground
  [April 29, 2013] UnGrounded: a hack at 30,000 feet via Chris Pirillo (@ChrisPirillo) — Now here’s something geeky and dam cool from British airways – imagine a hackathon while you jet over the Atlantic on a flight from San Fran to London! Yes indeed, according to the Verge, On a transatlantic flight from San Francisco to London, the [...]
• Watch This Developer Session About How To Use Google Drive’s New Features
  [April 11, 2013] On Thursday, Google launched two new ways for web apps to interact with Google Drive. The first – app data folders – stores critical app data in its own private folder to avoid accidental movement or deletion from users. The second – custom properties – allows users to “create searchable fields that are private to [...]
• Mozilla Launches Open Badges 1.0 To The Public
  [March 18, 2013] For the past few years, Mozilla has been working on a project called Open Badges. You can think of the project like merit badges for the Internet. It allows people to prove that they have accomplished something, or are knowledgeable in a topic, in a visual format. Now after a year of extensive beta testing, [...]
• How Social Media Influences Website Crawling
  [February 26, 2013] There have been many debates about the value social media plays in having content rank. While nothing has been definitively resolved, it has been shown to be beneficial in the short term. In this post I’d like to take a look at a different aspect: the impact social media has on crawling and indexing.
• How to Respond to a Link Removal Request
  [February 5, 2013] Google has a lot of webmasters scared. Seriously, they really do. Webmasters are so scared now that they are randomly and blindly emailing all the sites that they know about that link to them–and asking for links to be removed to their website. Google has been sending “unnatural link warnings” to website owners, telling them [...]
• Soon Developers WIll Be Able To Reply To Reviews On Google Play
  [January 17, 2013] In a rather awesome move for developers, Google allowed Android developers to directly reply to reviews on Google Play back in June. Unfortunately, the ability to do so was restricted to those who had achieved “Top Developer” status on the platform. Now Google is rolling out the ability to everybody.
• A Look Back On Mozilla’s Year Of Open Web Development
  [December 17, 2012] 2012 has been a momentous year for the Internet despite the best efforts of lawmakers and International groups to knock it down a peg. Google and Facebook have already looked back over the year, and have shared some stats on what was trending over the last year. Now Mozilla, makers of the popular Firefox browser, [...]
• New Features And Pricing For Google’s Cloud Platform
  [November 27, 2012] Google announced some new features, lower prices and extended European data center accessibility for its cloud platform.
• Google Hangout With Android Developer Relations Team
  [November 12, 2012] Google has uploaded another Android Developers Office Hours hangout. It features the EMEA-based Android Developer Releations team (from the Google TV Team) answering questions. As usual, it's about an hour long.
• Firefox Marketplace Is Now Available With New Aurora Release
  [October 22, 2012] Did you know that Mozilla has an app store? It's called the Firefox Marketplace, and it's an area where developers can sell HTML5 apps. It's going to be a central part of the Firefox OS coming to smartphones early next year. Developers wanting to get a head start can now start gathering important feedback from early testers.
• New Features In Google Hangout
  [October 1, 2012] The Google Places API has been seeing a constant barrage of updates this year. It could be a great new source of revenue for Google, and it's great for businesses (except for this guy). That's why it's super important for developers to stay in the know in regards to changes coming to the Places API.
• Facebook Announces Three Updates To the Graph API
  [September 4, 2012] Facebook needs to continually improve its services so that users, developers and investors remain happy. The social network has given a lot of recent attention to its Open Graph and related services. The trend continues today with an update to the Graph API.
• Are Your Rankings Altered by Geolocation?
  [August 17, 2012] A report by Linkdex shows that Geolocation plays a huge role in changing a site's rankings in Google search for a particular keyword across different locations. The report says that 69% of times when a site finds place in the top 30 results on Google search for a specific location, it will not rank for the same search term on all other locations.
• Google Starts Retracting Link Warnings
  [July 23, 2012] It was a very confusing 24 hours for webmasters around the globe. Google sent out a new unnatural link warning letter (Google has been sending out these notices for a while now), and it sent the webmasters into panic. The panic was mainly due concerns of another Penguin update on its way. Here is the letter Google sent out:
• The Pros and Cons of Dedicated WordPress Hosting
  [July 2, 2012] Some web hosting companies specialize in delivering services dedicated to very specific types of software. WordPress is one example of popular open source software that a hosting company may feature. There are both advantages and disadvantages to this type of hosting.
• Top 5 Reasons People Bounce from Your WordPress Site
  [June 15, 2012] So what really makes people leave your site?
• Bing Shares Google Penguin Update Recovery Tips
  [May 29, 2012] Most people who own a website will have heard about the latest Google Panda and Penguin algorithm updates, which have upset the SEO apple cart.
• Google Introduces Analytics Easy Dashboard Library
  [May 11, 2012] Google Analytics is a really useful tool, especially for site administrators. The only potential problem is that you might not know a lot about code to really take advantage of the Analytics API. To fix this, Google has joined forces with a team of University of California Irvine students to create a new Analytics tool that simplifies the process down to a few simple steps.
• How Can You Better Index Content With Bing?
  [April 17, 2012] For the sake of conversation, let's say you are the admin of a Web site. If you are already, that's even better. You prioritize how your Web site pages are linked to be picked up more easily by search engines. Maybe you're not getting as much of a return as you would like through Bing searches though. If that's the case, Microsoft has the cure for your ills.
• Ad Review Center For AdSense Gets More Powerful
  [March 27, 2012] The Ad Review Center for AdSense is now more ?powerful' as it has been overhauled by Google. Publishers now have more control over the ads showing up on their sites.
• Bing’s New Blog Series Includes Search Quality Insights
  [March 5, 2012] Google recently started a series of blog posts highlighting various points of progress it has made in its efforts to increase search quality. The results have essentially been lists of monthly changes Google has made to its algorithm and interface. This has been extremely interesting to watchers of the search industry and webmasters who are concerned with search engine optimization.
• 4 Quick Tips to CTR Improvement
  [February 22, 2012] The last few years have brought upon us many changes in the world of SEO. You have probably worked to stay in line with the algorithmic curve, doing what you can do to lift rankings and with it Organic traffic referrals.
• Properly Loading SWF Object in Chrome
  [January 30, 2012] As some of you may already know, I run and maintain a few of my own products, the most popular of which being Scribblar which pushes hundreds of sessions every day..
• Checking Out The Improvements To WordPress
  [December 15, 2011] WordPress 3.3 was just released. What's inside? Some nice improvements - watch my video for a quick tour. I'll show you around the new interface changes, and some of the new features as well.