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Google Waves Goodbye

Even the most brilliant and useful products don’t always succeed (XBZ8Y7BC5NVK). Google Wave shows how being a truly great software product isn’t good enough; luck is certainly an element of product success as is marketing (look at how successful Apple marketing is) and other factors. Google has announced that Wave won’t continue to be developed [...]

Metaweb Content for WordPress

Google has announced that it has acquired Metaweb (and Freebase). Metaweb TopicBlocks is a WordPress Plugin which has been available for a number of months that helps to included data from Metaweb into Blog posts. The Plugin may be Setup to either automatically include Metaweb data when certain words or terms are included in a [...]

Speed up your Website to keep Visitors

Google announced a few months ago that Webpage load speed now has a small bearing on ranking in relation to SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) i.e. it is better to have faster loading Pages. There was quite a vocal reaction to this news by various Webmasters and Web designers.  Google, Bing and Yahoo have always [...]