Google Site for Google Apps announced
February 29, 2008
Google announce the released of Google Sites, an add on to Google Apps, which allows and individual or an entire team to build websites that incorporates a variety of information in one place, including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and gadgets.
Once the website is built, you can easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, your entire organisation, or the whole world.
This new Google Apps add on is available to both free and premium users. The new service was spawned from the Google-acquired JotSpot suite. Some demo Google Sites follows:
* Company intranet — http://sites.google.com/a
* Team project — http://sites.google.com/a
* Employee profile — http://sites.google.com/a
* Classroom — http://sites.google.com/a
* Student club — http://sites.google.com/a
Microsoft bids £23 billion for Yahoo
February 2, 2008
It was reported today that Microsoft has launched a £23 billion bid for Yahoo inc. Yahoo, owns the busiest website in the world but its primary source of revenue, advertising not doing as well as the stock market expected, this led to Yahoo stock losing value.
Microsoft bid values Yahoo more that what its actually worth on the stock market. City is expecting to hear from Yahoo boards to see if they will recommend the bid to their shareholders.
seocontest2008 – Are you the best SEO consultant?
February 1, 2008
UK Webmaster World forum launched and SEO contest today, the keywords participants in the contest are supposed to optimised is the word “seocontest2008″. The search for that keyword yesterday in Google yielded no results. A few hours into the contest and Google has recorded over 500 documents with that keyword.
Participants are still being accepted for the 3 months long contest. Press release below from UK WW SEO contest organisers give full details of the contest and how you can join.
As you might be previously informed on the 1th of February the UK Webmaster World Community will launch an international seo contest and the winner will receive $1000 and each 3 runners up will get $100.
What is the targetted keyphrase?
Well, the selected keyphrase will be announced at midnight of 31st of January.
How can I enter?
In order to help us identify you as a participant during the contest you need to do two things:
- Take the rules seriously
- Insert this html code into your competitive design page
Quote:
<a href=”http://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com/” target=”_blank” user=”your name”>UK webmaster forum seo contest</a> We are going to design a result table page for the contest and the value of the user tag will be displayed next to your result so this will identify you during the contest.
You can find SEO contest page here
You can find SEO contest forum here



