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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?
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Late last year, we tested a prerelease of the software development kit for Google’s Linux-based Android mobile phone operating system. Although we saw a lot of potential in the platform, there were a number of serious flaws in both the software and the underlying development process. Both have seen noteworthy improvement since our original tests.
The developers announced the availability of m5-rc14 this week, a new Android prerelease that addresses many issues and brings a significant user interface overhaul to the operating system. I put the new version of the SDK and Eclipse plug-in to the test on my Ubuntu desktop computer to see how it compares to the version that we tested in December.
As we noted in our previous review, one of the significant strengths of Android in the area of third-party development is the ease of installing the SDK. That advantage has been retained, but I ran into a minor snag with dependencies for the Android Eclipse plug-in. Ubuntu 7.10 users who wish to use the Android plug-in might need to download the latest version of Eclipse in order to do so. If you have a standard version of Eclipse, the installation process for Android and the plug-in is relatively straightforward and can be done in a matter of minutes.
My first test after installing the new SDK was attempting to compile and run the experimental Twitter client that I developed for my previous article. This initially failed because of alterations to the Android XML manifest file format, but it was very easy to make the requisite changes. You can refer to the Android manifest documentation page to see how the current manifest file should look.
In the source code for the program itself, the only element of the Android API used by my Twitter client that no longer works is the now-defunct EmboldenedSpan object. I simply changed it to a StyleSpan object with a Typeface.BOLD paramater. All things considered, it wasn’t all that painful to get my simple application working with the new version of the SDK, but developers with more complex projects might have a different experience. Google’s documentation includes an overview of the API changes between the m3 and m5 releases. In general, the documentation seems to be a bit better all across the board.
In our previous article about Android, we voiced sharp criticism of Google for failing to provide a public bug tracking system, an omission that greatly impeded the process of providing feedback. Google finally resolved that problem last month when it announced that it would be using the issue tracker at the Android code.google.com page. This is a very positive sign that Google is taking the needs of the Android third-party developer community more seriously.
The user interface of the Android platform also got a big boost with this release. The home screen menu system is a bit more finger-friendly now and still retains solid usability with navigation buttons. We noted in our previous article that Android has a highly hardware-neutral design that reflects Google’s intention to make it support a variety of different kinds of handsets. The user interface changes generally seem consistent with that approach. One oddity is a slide-down panel that displays notifications. It can be dragged from the top of the screen, but I couldn’t find a way to activate it with a button. Overall, the new home screen menu feels more functional and less cramped than its predecessor, but is a bit less stylish.
One very noticeable change in the Android user interface is the addition of transition animations. The animations show up in many places throughout the system, generally when windows, dialogs, and menus appear. They are very subtle and add some additional elegance without becoming a distraction.
I tested several of the applications that come with the SDK, including the mapping program, the contact book, and the web browser. I also tested the experimental Google Talk chat integration feature. I was able to connect to Google Talk and receive messages, which are displayed as items on the notification panel. The performance and usability of the bundled applications is pretty decent.
The interface feels more complete now, but there are still some holes. For instance, the home screen menu offers an option for changing the background wallpaper, but selecting it only displays a dialog stating that the feature isn’t available yet. There is obviously still work to be done before the interface is ready for use on a phone, but it is definitely improving at a reasonable pace.
It seems like the initial prerelease was primarily to let developers see what the platform would offer, and this release is more about addressing the needs that emerged in the process. Google is clearly giving due consideration to criticisms of Android and resolving problems identified by third-party developers. There are still technical issues to resolve, but Google has now demonstrated enough responsiveness to developer demands to justify giving the company the benefit of the doubt. This second look at the platform and the development ecosystem has boosted my confidence in the endeavor and given me reason to be optimistic about Android’s prospects.
[via arstechnica]
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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
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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.
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We know the importance of a locating device on your mobile for those who have gone astray in various parts of the globe. Thankfully Man gave us the inventive GPS which maybe the perfect device in such a situation, but the GPS is sure to drain your cell phone batteries in no time. This was enough thought for the team at Google to develop a cutting edge Google Maps for mobiles version. This amazing feature can tell your location without the need of a GPS device.
The best part is you do not have to tediously type in the location name for a result. Simply press the number “0” and you will get information on your current location. Your approximate location is triangulated based on nearby mobile-phone masts, meaning users won’t have to type in an address to set their location.
US customers get lucky once again as they get FREE access to this matchless service. Most web-enabled mobile phones like Java, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Nokia/Symbian devices will support Google Maps for Mobiles (it’s not yet available on the iPhone or Palm Treo devices).
With better coverage, interactive maps and of course low battery usage Google Maps for Mobiles sounds like a delightful proposition. So the next time you get out on your African Safari or spiritual trip to Goa, Google Maps for Mobiles may just come in handy.(Justsearching)
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Evans Data says it surveyed close to 400 professional developers around the world who are working on applications for mobile devices, and found that 38.4 percent of them preferred using Google technologies for location based development. The closest competitor was Microsoft followed by Nokia.
See more by http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15116/127/
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We haven’t heard much about Zingku since we predicted it would be hot in ’07 in the Mashable Social Networking Awards. However, Google now appears to agree with us, acquiring the company for an undisclosed amount. Currently, the Zingku site is closed for new registrations as the company moves to Google.
Google never seemed to do much with Dodgeball, another mobile social networking tool of sorts it acquired, so it will be interesting to find out what the game plan is here. Other recent Google news in the mobile space include the rumored Gphone, and the company’s bid on wireless spectrum in both the US and UK.
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Quality over quantity is usually the way in which we’d like to consider certain things in life, like clothes or the number of tracks on an album. And many of you out there would agree that this mantra applies to search queries as well.
Compete has just compiled a study that shows Yahoo’s superiority over Google when it comes to search results. While we all know that Google takes the cake for dominating the market in terms of search quantity, it’s good to look at quality every once in a while, too. What Compete looked at were the referrals from search queries done across Yahoo, Google and MSN/Live. An entire third of search queries performed on Google led to a dead end, meaning people weren’t clicking on a single search result.
This is the silver lining that so many search engine developers look to when creating their own way to navigate the semantic web. Nearly every search engine that’s come to our attention wants to find better results than Google, in a more efficient manner, whether it be through human interaction as with Cha-Cha and Mahalo, web user behavior as with Krillion, or a combination of both, as with Grayboxx.
It may be important to note here that Yahoo’s received higher honors than Google for consumer satisfaction as well. Does this mean that Yahoo is hands-down better than Google? Not really. It’s just another debatable factor for advertisers and businesses to look at when drawing up an online marketing plan.
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At Google Developer Day, New Browser Extension Provided to Developer Community
Google Developer Day 2007
SYDNEY, Australia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced at Google Developer Day 2007 that it is providing developers with Google Gears??, an open source technology for creating offline web applications. This new browser extension is being made available in its early stages so that everyone can test its capabilities and limitations and help improve upon it. The long-term hope is that Google Gears can help the industry as a whole move toward a single standard for offline capabilities that all developers can use.
Google Gears marks an important step in the evolution of web applications because it addresses a major user concern: availability of data and applications when there’s no Internet connection available, or when a connection is slow or unreliable. As application developers and users alike want to do more on the web—whether it’s email or CRM or photo editing—enhancements that make the browser environment itself more powerful are increasingly important.
“With Google Gears we’re tackling a key limitation of the browser in order to make it a stronger platform for deploying all types of applications and enabling a better user experience in the cloud,” said Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google. “We believe strongly in the power of the community to stretch this new technology to the limits of what’s possible and ultimately emerge with an open standard that benefits everyone.”
Google is offering Google Gears as a free, fully open source technology in order to help every web application, not just Google applications. As a first example of what is possible, the Google Reader™ feed reader (http://reader.google.com) is available today with Gears-enabled offline capabilities.
Industry support
Google will be working closely with all members of the web community to converge upon a standard so developers have one consistent API for offline functionality.
“We’re very excited to be collaborating with Google to move the industry forward to a standard cross-platform, cross-browser local storage capability,” said Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and chief software architect at Adobe. “The Gears API will also be available in Apollo, which enables web applications to run on the desktop, providing developers with consistent offline and local database solutions.”
“This announcement is a significant step forward for web applications,” said Brendan Eich, CTO at Mozilla Corporation. “We’re pleased to see Google working with open source and open standards bodies on offline web applications.”
“Opera and Google share the common goal of making Web applications richer and more robust,” said HĂĄkon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera Software. “Developers have long desired the functionality and flexibility Google Gears can offer browsers. Because Opera has always prioritized giving our users what they want, we’re excited to work with Google to extend the reach and power of Web applications.”
Another tool in the application development toolbox
Google Gears builds on the web’s existing programming model by introducing new JavaScript APIs for sophisticated data storage, application caching, and multi-threading features. With these APIs, developers can bring offline capabilities to even their most complex web applications. Google Gears works with all major browsers on all major platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux.
Google Gears is available now at http://gears.google.com/.
About Google Inc.
Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google’s targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.
Google, Google Gears, and Google Reader are trademarks of Google Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
