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Ask DLS: Is affiliate marketing via Google AdWords a scam?

Filed under: Business, Google, Ask DLS

I had gotten some very well-informed and interesting replies when I asked you guys about the stock market, so I figured I would try my luck again with something at least as shady, scammy and rife with get-rick-quick artists: Google AdWords affiliate marketing.

The basic idea, to those of you unfamiliar [...]

Google super-charges Reader and turns it into an Interwebs slideshow

Filed under: Internet, Google, web 2.0

In a move that is surely reminiscent of Microsoft and Bing’s emphasis on VISUAL RESULTS (did you see Pivot?!), Google has just launched a new feature for its Reader. It’s called Reader Play, and it lets you click through all of the goodies that the Internet has to offer (or [...]

Goodbye, privacy: The entire UK set to go on Google Street View tomorrow

Filed under: Internet

The UK is already one of the most-monitored Western countries. It has a record number of security cameras on the streets and public transport stations (one camera for every 14 people!); its authorities are installing chips in garbage cans to monitor the amount of trash, and now Google is “helping out” by bringing [...]

Get ready to roll with new biking directions on Google Maps

Filed under: Web services, Google, Beta

Google Maps just added one of its most-requested features ever: biking directions! Sure, you could get by on your bike with walking or driving directions, but those often include either freeways or streets with no bike lanes. The directions come with the ability to change routes by dragging and dropping [...]

Google Apps Marketplace launches

Filed under: Business, Developer, Google

The announcement for the new marketplace is actually going on right now. Head on over to the Google Code YouTube Channel to watch the live broadcast.

Google Apps, if you’re confused by the sheer number of ‘apps’-related terms used in conversation nowadays, are Google’s in-the-cloud business solutions. Today’s launch does not represent [...]

FourWhere introduces search for location-based social networks

Filed under: Utilities, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

Maybe you’ve heard of Foursquare — that trendy mobile app that lets you and your friends check in when you go somewhere — but chances are you haven’t heard of FourWhere. It’s a search engine for location-based social networks, starting with Foursquare, but planning to expand to [...]

Delicious lands in Google Chrome Extension Gallery - it’s official, and very beta

Filed under: Google, Browsers

It’s still a bit rough around the edges at this point, but the new beta bookmarking extension from Delicious is a big improvement over its last offering.

In case you hadn’t seen the last version, it was pretty much identical to using Delicious via a bookmarklet — and not very exciting. The new [...]

Rapportive replaces Gmail ads with useful social information

Filed under: E-mail, Google, Mozilla, Freeware, Social Software, Browsers

There are a number of email plugins that look to give you contextual information about the person you’re communicating with. The first one I tried (and arguably the best I’ve seen) is Xobni, an Outlook plugin.

There’s now a similar plugin available for Gmail users called Rapportive. Rapportive [...]

Chrome Corner: extensions to keep Google Chrome in sync on multiple computers

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Since you last saw an edition of Chrome Corner, we’ve done some re-thinking about what it should be. Instead of trying to force together a weekly update when there’s sometimes just not enough news to justify doing it, the Corner will now crop up whenever the crew at Download Squad has a [...]

Session Buddy is a killer session management extension for Google Chrome

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Google Chrome has basic session recovery and can load a specific set of URLs upon launching, but it’s nothing too exciting. If you’re after a more powerful alternative, check out the Session Buddy extension.

Once installed, you can save and restore tabs and windows from previous browsing sessions. You can also remove specific [...]