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Google SketchUp - Cool Tool Alert

Google has released a very cool tool called SketchUp.  The tool allows you to build three dimensional models that can be to scale. The models can be quickly worked up using a variety of tools like the rectangle, circle, arch, push pull, rotate, and orbit. You can then fill in planes with colours or with textures. SketchUp is a desktop app and proves that Google can, quite successfully, write software for the desktop.  It will be interesting to see what happens as the company moves off the Internet onto our desktops more and more.

Popular Science Back Issues on Google

Google has archived every back issue of Popular Science starting with the first issue in 1872. Each and every page is tagged allowing for contextual search across the hundreds of issues.

Having worked on the Popsci website last year, I'm really pleased to see this logical and cool next step in the increasing geek-if-ication of an already intensely geeky publication.

Google Alerts

Google has a service called Alerts that will monitor News, Blogs, Web, Videos, Groups, or aggregate of all five.

When you set up an alert, you choose terms to follow, what you want to monitor, the frequency at which you wish to receive the alert, and enter an email address to send the alert to.

When your terms and the type of post you are monitoring is discovered by the service, an alert is sent to the email address you've assigned to the alert.

Nonprofits (and others) can use the Alerts to:

ping.fm and My Unused Blogger Blog

On August 6, 2004 I began blogging on blogger. On October 31, 2006 I began using this site. On April 18, 2007 I ceased using my Blogger account. I had been cross-posting between this site and Blogger using Qumana. Requirements from Google had changed for posting using a tool like Qumana and had become tired of maintaining both sites. The blogger site became fallow and wasn't used. Occasionally there was a comment or two on old posts and for whatever reason get traffic--not a lot, but some.

Drupal Adsense Injector

I'm always looking for ways to effectively monetize my site. Adsense hasn't been too terribly successful for me and I suspect--with advice from my brother--that a big part has been placement. I have been placing Adsense ads in the right column, a little too low and in the footer.

Placing Adsense ads in the left and right columns and the footer in Drupal is easy. You can come up with the code in your Adsense account and then create a block with that information in it. No brainer.

Placing ads in nodes is another thing altogether. You could manually place an ad every time, but that does not seem like an effective way of placing ads.

Microsoft Loses Key Windows Architect...

...to Google.

That's gotta smart.