When Google announced Android, its software platform for mobile devices, it released an SDK for developers to work with, but it also promised to eventually release the code under an open-source license. Today, Google and its partners in the Open Handset Alliance did exactly that. You can now download the code and help Google and its partners to develop it further. The source code has been released under the Apache 2.0 license and consists of the complete codebase of Android, including all the libraries, media codecs, and applications.

The timing of this announcement coincides with the release of the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, which will go on sale tomorrow.

Apache License

The Apache License allows developers to distribute and modify the source code in any way they want, and developers are not required to distribute the new code under the same license. The new license does not even have to be an open-source license, which will give companies the option to develop their own, proprietary platforms on the basis of Android.

iPhone and Android Compete for Developers

It will be interesting to see where developers will take the Android platform now that they have full access to it. We have already seen the release of quite a few very interesting programs for Android in anticipation of the G1 launch.

This announcement also sets Google apart from Apple, which is trying to keep complete control over its iPhone platform. While most users probably don’t care about the politics behind the scenes, the Android platform might siphon off quite a few developers from the iPhone - especially given Apple’s erratic behavior around including applications in the iTunes store lately.

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The whole web is talking about Google Chrome (google.com/chrome), an open source browser based on it owns webkit and uses its Google Gears. An official comic book with 38 pages explained why they build Chrome. Sitepoint listed the features of Chrome based on comic. Is it another step to dominate the web?

• Images of Google Chrome (Techcrunch)
• Google Chrome Screenshots (Blogoscoped)
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• Google Working on Browser (Site Point)

At the recent Search Engine Strategies conference in freezing Chicago, many of us Googlers were asked questions about duplicate content. We recognize that there are many nuances and a bit of confusion on the topic, so we’d like to help set the record straight.

What is duplicate content?
Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Most of the time when we see this, it’s unintentional or at least not malicious in origin: forums that generate both regular and stripped-down mobile-targeted pages, store items shown (and — worse yet — linked) via multiple distinct URLs, and so on. In some cases, content is duplicated across domains in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or garner more traffic via popular or long-tail queries.

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Tivo owners with Picasa or Photobucket accounts just got another way to view their photos on their TVs — everyone’s favorite DVR company announced deals with both services today that will allow users to access their photos from any Tivo device. Photos will be pulled down at the highest resolution your Tivo supports, so Series3 and Tivo HD owners will get HD-res images displayed, and what’s more, users can also access friends’ photo albums. The feature should be rolling out starting today — between this and that Rhapsody partnership, it seems like Tivo is starting to get serious about branching into the still-dormant media streamer / extender market.

[Via TG Daily]

This is a list with frequently asked questions about web robots. Select the question to go to the answer page, or select on the eye icon after the question to show the answer in this page.

1. About WWW robots
   • What is a WWW robot?
   • What is an agent?
   • What is a search engine?
   • What kinds of robots are there?
   • So what are Robots, Spiders, Web Crawlers, Worms, Ants?
   • Aren’t robots bad for the web?
   • Are there any robot books?
   • Where do I find out more about robots?
   • Any cartoons?
2. Indexing Robots
   • How does a robot decide where to visit?
   • How does an indexing robot decide what to index?
   • How do I register my page with a robot?
   • How do I get the best listing in search engines?
   • Can I use /robots.txt or meta tags to remove offensive content on some other site from a search engine?
3. For Server Administrators
   • How do I know if I’ve been visited by a robot?
   • I’ve been visited by a robot! Now what?
   • A robot is traversing my whole site too fast!
   • How do I keep a robot off my server?
4. Robots exclusion standard
   • Why do I find entries for /robots.txt in my log files?
   • How do I prevent robots scanning my site?
   • Where do I find out how /robots.txt files work?
   • What program should I use to create /robots.txt?
   • How do I use /robots.txt on a virtual host?
   • How do I use /robots.txt on a shared host?
   • What about further development of /robots.txt?
   • What if I cannot make a /robots.txt?
   • Can I block just bad robots?
   • Why did this robot ignore my /robots.txt?
   • Can a /robots.txt be used in a court of law?
   • Surely listing sensitive files is asking for trouble?
5. About META tags
   • What is the rel=”nofollow” link attribute?
6. Availability
   • Where can I use a robot?
   • Where can I get a robot?
   • Where can I get the source code for a robot?
   • I’m writing a robot, what do I need to be careful of?
   • I’ve written a robot, how do I list it?

To those who have adsense on their websites, how much do you earn daily? Share us your average figures. As for , we earn around $3.00 a day which is alright to pay for one server the more earnings the better, hopefully we can increase it this month..

So tell us about your adsense earnings..

Zacadsense: average of about 1 cent a day. it used to be more on my old old old sites that i used to have but i closed them (stupidly)

bidvertiser: around $0.12 a day, but its on the upOn the average I would say about $0.50 to $1.00 a day (this is just for a single site). But some days are just really so “slow”, if you know what I mean.Sorry but to ask this. I thought we are not suppose to put google adsense and similar advertising program on the site as long as it is hosted on ZC?Well, if you’re the one asking me kleong, my site is not hosted with . kleong Wrote:Sorry but to ask this. I thought we are not suppose to put google adsense and similar advertising program on the site as long as it is hosted on ZC?
indeed, my adsense is not on byteforums which is hosted here.Thanks jandz, goughy000. For one moment I was puzzled. Can I or can I not put adsense? Now I know. Yes it is your website that are not hosted with . I should’ve clarified. I might change that rule in the future..

Zaci earn around 10$ a day

Hey guys just a survey ok , my daily income in adsense is below $3 , The $3 per day is maintain by my 1 (freelance web design website) and 3 blogsites.

My question is , how many website i need, or what i must do to increase my adsense earning and site visitors.Target a greater audienence is really the only way to get more $$$You can earn more with just one website. All you need to do is to get more traffic to go to your site. To get more traffic to your site try exchanging banners or links with other websites. Put a link of your site in your forum signitures and optimize your site with the best and most suitable keywords. Make sure you submit it to the major search engines too

Thats my 2cents Lets hear what the others have to say..

ZacGoogle aren’t going to pay you for having a website, they’d reward you for showing people their advertisments, if noone goes to your site to see click those ads then you get zilch!

As Zac said, more traffic!
Easy part is making the website Also don’t say “Please click the ads”. Otherwise google will ban your account.thank you guys thanks for the adviceYou can put as many keywords in your meda tags as you want but if you dont have the content people are looking for they won’t waste there time clicking the ads on your site. Bolgus keywords won’t work either lol e.g if one of the keywords in your media tag is socks you better have socks on your site and not just the word lol.Meta tags won’t help, you must have unqiue content, and target high paying keywords. Of course, more traffic. Your ad position.

Well, I learned all this from DP forums. If I did it myself, I wouold be no where.All of the above are very good observations. The position, the keywords the metatags, but the real deal is that you have to have an audiencejust make a very good site with good content and promote your website Or you can have more content (original, of course) like a blog that is regularly updated, or a website with articles about certain interest you have. People with similar interest will find your site and they may come back if there is enough real content. If it’s just copied, then they may not stay too long.

The forum link in your sigs also help a great deal. ExposureBlend your ads. Oh, and traffic, traffic, traffic and SEO. Link exchanges also work as well as article submissions.

Goodluck on your money making venture.U need knowledge about lots of things along with adsense to increase the Adsense Income. If u carry on just learning about adsene, u can’t be successfull with the ad income. U must learn about PPC, CTR, Conversion, Ad layouts, Keywords and some other things to satisfy your self with the result…as i know meta tag only help a little to increase visitor but not to help much, so the problem only one “how to get more visitor” its automaticaly increase your money everyday. difficult huh? many offer out there tell they can improve your adsense but i think be carefuly before buy something.

i have only one key: everytime you write heading text on your website is important use best keyword so search engine will work fine with your site…if i not wrong…but i already test with my blog and so far its work…gl3nnx Wrote:Hey guys just a survey ok ??, my daily income in adsense is below $3 , The $3 per day is maintain by my 1 (freelance web design website) and 3 blogsites.

My question is , how many website i need, or what i must do to increase my adsense earning and site visitors.

SEO is good thing to make your site popular as if site came on 1st page more and more people will vist ur site. We can do this for u + we make all ur pages crawel by the serach engine and also implement Dynamic Keywords and title. This is called SEF search Engine Friendly.

Google has been beating its chest about websites selling and buying links for some time now. They don’t like it, we get it guys. Recently they penalised a whole bunch of websites for selling links in their big PR update. This caused a huge amount of uproar and many of the penalised websites had their penalties rescinded.

What was getting the goats of a lot of people however was the fact that Google actively punished sites selling text links while at the same time profited from the very same sites advertising the sale of text links on Google’s Adwords platform.

Google was being very hypocritical. If they don’t like it happening, why support it and profit from it themselves? Well, now they’ve put pay to that one and have banned Adwords ads from showing for a great many text-link related keywords, including ‘paid links’.

As you can see, no Adwords ads.

This marks the next step in Google’s battle to reduce paid links in order to keep their index ‘pure’. If you’re doing paid reviews or selling paid links on your website, remember, Google is watching!

Darren
Affiliate Marketing

Tivo owners with Picasa or Photobucket accounts just got another way to view their photos on their TVs — everyone’s favorite DVR company announced deals with both services today that will allow users to access their photos from any Tivo device. Photos will be pulled down at the highest resolution your Tivo supports, so Series3 and Tivo HD owners will get HD-res images displayed, and what’s more, users can also access friends’ photo albums. The feature should be rolling out starting today — between this and that Rhapsody partnership, it seems like Tivo is starting to get serious about branching into the still-dormant media streamer / extender market.

[Via TG Daily]