Selasa, 31 Agustus 2010

Google now indexes SVG

Webmaster Level: All

You can now use Google search to find SVG documents. SVG is an open, XML-based format for vector graphics with support for interactive elements. We’re big fans of open standards, and our mission is to organize the world’s information, so indexing SVG is a natural step.

We index SVG content whether it is in a standalone file or embedded directly in HTML. The web is big, so it may take some time before we crawl and index most SVG files, but as of today you may start seeing them in your search results. If you want to see it yourself, try searching for [sitemap site:fastsvg.com] or [HideShow site:svg-whiz.com]

If you host SVG files and you wish to exclude them from Google’s search results, you can use the “X-Robots-Tag: noindex” directive in the HTTP header.

Check out Webmaster Central for a full list of file types we support.

Online publishers: growing the display advertising pie

This is the latest post in our series on the future of display advertising. Today, director of product management Jonathan Bellack looks at our efforts to help online publishers generate more advertising revenue - Ed.

For millions of online publishers—from the smallest blogger to the largest entertainment, news, e-commerce and information sites—online advertising revenue is vital. When publishers can maximize their returns, everyone benefits from more vibrant online content and websites. But the pace of change in the industry can be intimidating—how can a publisher keep up with what’s new, let alone grow their business?

We believe that the new technology we’re developing to make display advertising work better will help to grow the display advertising pie for all publishers, by orders of magnitude. We shouldn’t be asking how publishers can eke another 5 or 10 percent out of display advertising in the next few years. We should be looking at how the industry can double or triple in size.

We’ve previously described our three core display ad products for publishers:
  • AdSense, which places the most valuable, relevant ads on our partners’ websites, without the publishers having to sell the ad space themselves;
  • DoubleClick for Publishers, our ad serving platform, which maximizes the value of ad space that publishers have directly sold themselves;
  • DoubleClick Ad Exchange, a real-time auction marketplace, which maximizes large publishers’ overall returns, by "dynamically allocating" the highest value ad, whether directly sold, or indirectly sold through an ad network.
I wanted to highlight the key principles guiding our future product innovations in this area, as we work to help all publishers maximize their online ad revenues.

1. Making life more efficient
For most large publishers, directly sold ads (ads sold by their own sales force) comprise the vast majority of their ad revenues. But today, selling and managing these ads is frustrating, expensive and often involves tedious manual processes.

Imagine a TV network that receives TV commercials in 100 different formats, languages, lengths and video dimensions, and then has to manually convert, translate and edit them all, then manually count the number of TV sets on which the ad appeared before sending a bill. Sounds crazy, right? Well, that scenario is far less challenging than what most large online publishers face today with display advertising. Today, across the industry, for every dollar spent on display advertising, 28 cents is eaten up in administrative costs. If we can reduce that proportion, it would mean a lot more money going to publishers.

Things like new standards for video ad serving and systems that connect buyers and sellers are helping publishers support the most engaging and creative ads across their sites. But there are quantum leaps to come in this area, for small and large publishers. Think of a political candidate who is seeking donations on his or her website—the candidate can receive money in seconds. Imagine if publishers—even the smallest website—had tools that enabled advertisers to click a button on their site to upload an ad, let them pay for it with a credit card, and then deliver this ad—through the publisher’s ad server—within minutes. This sort of “immediate ad” will become possible as ad serving technology continues to simplify the process of buying and selling ad space.

2. Total revenue management
AdSense selects the most valuable ad for publishers from a large number of ad networks, to maximize ad revenues every time a page loads.

New ad serving and “dynamic allocation” technology, like the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, is emerging that enables ad revenues to be maximized across both directly and indirectly sold ad space, ad impression by ad impression, using real-time prices. Second by second, across millions of ad impressions, this can meaningfully boost major publishers’ revenues. Using this technology, the average price that a publisher receives for ad space sold through the Ad Exchange is more than 130 percent higher than the average price of ad space sold directly to ad networks. In fact, without this type of dynamic allocation across sales channels, a publisher’s revenues can never truly be maximized.

In years to come, this true revenue maximization can get even smarter. There’s no question that delivering the right ad to the right user at the right time delivers better results. We have years of experience in doing this with search and text ads; we’re now bringing that experience to the world of display. This means investing in a smarter ad server that can automatically learn where and when a given ad will get the best response, as well as manage delivery to deliver those improved results for publishers. This new ad server can even anticipate a publisher’s future events and adjust delivery accordingly—for example, if traffic drops off every weekend, the ad server can automatically speed up during the week to keep everything moving smoothly.

3. More insight and control
Our vision is to provide all publishers the smartest possible advertising system that can give them knowledge and control of everything going on with their ad business. The vision is already becoming a reality: the upgraded DoubleClick for Publishers platform offers publishers 4,000 times more data than its predecessor. And in recent years, we’ve been constantly adding new reporting options for our AdSense partners.

By putting publishers in firm control and empowering them with more data, reports and controls (for example, over what advertisers and ad networks they allow), they’ll be able to make fully informed decisions about ad space forecasting, segmentation, targeting, allocation and pricing. This helps them to extract the maximum value from their sites and uncover new advertising opportunities—the gold that’s buried under their own sites.

4. Betting on openness
An open ecosystem drives meaningful results for publishers. When a wide range of buyers can bid for a publisher’s ad space, through an advertising exchange or network, this creates more competition for that ad space, while giving publishers choice over whose ads they want to appear. On the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, an enormous number of advertisers, belonging to over 50 ad networks, compete for publishers’ ad space. Of course, at the same time, we’re also providing publishers robust technologies and controls that can block any unwanted ads or networks.

Similarly, we believe that one of the best ways to encourage innovation is to open code to the web developer community. Look at the incredible mashups that have been created through the Google Maps API, or the range of mobile devices that have been created from our open source Android code.

This same approach can generate significant advantages for publishers. When we rolled out the upgraded DoubleClick for Publishers, we launched a new public API. This gives publishers and developers the tools to drive innovation and deliver value-adding “advertising apps” for publishers—like inventory analysis, sales workflow tools and more—without having to build an ad server from scratch. This will help drive the next generation of better, more valuable ad innovations.

5. Everything is going to be “display”
Display advertising is about much more than ads in web browsers. People are watching video, reading newspapers, magazines, books and listening to digital music at an ever-increasing rate. They’re turning to a plethora of new devices—smartphones, tablets, e-readers and even video game consoles. We’ve designed our platform, and are continuing to invest in it, to give publishers a single base that can deliver ads into this expanding world—including streaming video, mobile ad delivery and more.

Looking forward, what we call “display” today will just be “advertising”—a single platform that can coordinate an advertiser’s campaign across streaming audio ads in car stereos, interactive mobile experiences on smartphones, and HD video ads on set-top boxes. Imagine if that single platform could optimize the campaign, automatically delivering the best-performing ads, best returns and best mix, across all those platforms. That’s the future we envisage.

An exciting time ahead
We’re unapologetically optimistic about the future of display advertising for online publishers. There’s great innovation taking place in this area that will make the current landscape look primitive within a few years. We’ll keep working hard to help all publishers take advantage of these opportunities.

Senin, 30 Agustus 2010

Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog)

People tell us all the time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day—mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that’s often not important. It’s time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Today, we’re happy to introduce Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail.

Gmail has always been pretty good at filtering junk mail into the “spam” folder. But today, in addition to spam, people get a lot of mail that isn't outright junk but isn't very important—bologna, or “bacn.” So we've evolved Gmail's filter to address this problem and extended it to not only classify outright spam, but also to help users separate this "bologna" from the important stuff. In a way, Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules.



Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”:



As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most (if you email Bob a lot, a message from Bob is probably important) and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over). And as you use Gmail, it will get better at categorizing messages for you. You can help it get better by clicking the or buttons at the top of the inbox to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important. (You can even set up filters to always mark certain things important or unimportant, or rearrange and customize the three inbox sections.)

After lots of internal testing here at Google, as well as with Gmail and Google Apps users at home and at work, we’re ready for more people to try it out. Priority Inbox will be rolling out to all Gmail users, including those of you who use Google Apps, over the next week or so. Once you see the "New! Priority Inbox" link in the top right corner of your Gmail account (or the new Priority Inbox tab in Gmail Settings), take a look.

Share your story with the new Google Translate

(Cross-posted from the Google Translate blog)

Today, you may have noticed a brighter looking Google Translate. We’re currently rolling out several changes globally to our look and feel that should make translating text, webpages and documents on Google Translate even easier. These changes will be available globally within a couple of days.

Google Translate’s shiny new coat of paint

With today’s functional and visual changes we wanted to make it simpler for you to discover and make the most of Google Translate’s many features and integrations. For example, did you know that you can search across languages on Google using Google Translate? Or that you can translate incoming email in Gmail or take Google Translate with you on your phone? We’ve added all these tips on the new Do more with Google Translate page. You can also see some of these tips rotating on the new homepage.

We’ve also created an Inside Google Translate page, where you can learn how we create our translations. Is it the work of magic elves or learned linguists? Here Anton Andryeyev, an engineer on our team, gives you the inside scoop:



It’s always inspiring for us to learn how Google Translate enables people to break down communication barriers around the world. Lisa J. recently shared with us how she uses Google Translate to stay in touch with her grandparents. “I moved to the U.S. from China when I was six,” Lisa told us, “so I speak both English and Chinese fluently but I’m not very good at reading the complex Chinese alphabet.” When she gets an email from her grandparents in China, Google Translate helps her understand the sentences she can’t quite read. She also uses Google Translate when she’s writing her response. “I use Google Translate to make sure I’m using the right character in the right place,” she explained.

Do you use Google Translate to stay in touch with distant relatives? Read foreign news? Or make the most of your vacation? We’d love to hear from you, and invite you to share your story with us. Who knows, we might feature your story on the Google Translate blog!

23 walls of Googley

A couple months ago while visiting our London office, I noticed a really cool Google logo on the wall. It was a mosaic of photos of London that had been created by a product manager named Clay Bavor and a team of Googlers (in fact, Clay wrote about it). As a few of us admired the wall, we thought there must be other Googlers who could create something equally cool and fun. So we cooked up a little contest for the product management team: create your own version of a “Googley Art Wall” and the team with the best entry wins a nice dinner out and a donation to the charity of its choice.

When we announced the contest, we weren’t sure if we’d get enough entries to make it interesting. Within minutes of seeing the announcement, however, Lorraine Twohill (head of marketing) and Claire Hughes Johnson (head of online sales) both asked if it was OK for their teams to enter too. Soon Googlers from offices and teams around the world were doing their best to create beautiful, creative and Googley “art walls,” on small budgets and their own time.

Seven weeks later, 23 teams from 12 offices across eight countries submitted videos and photographs of their work. The entries were so universally good that the judges couldn’t limit themselves to picking just one winner. The grand prize went to “Rubik’s Cubes Galore!”, a giant Google doodle meticulously composed of 850 Rubik’s Cubes, created by practically the entire Taipei office. We also named four runners-up: from Mountain View, a “Periodic Table of Google Elements,” a colorful collection of facts and stats about Google and the Internet arranged as a giant periodic table; the “Google Paris Metro Station,” a Metro stop built right inside the Paris office; the “Shanghai Interactive Wall,” a magnetic wall with 63 moveable tiles; and in Dublin, the “Google FoosWall,” a super-sized foosball table with handmade players that spell Google. Watch the video to see the making of these winning walls, along with the finished products.



People sometimes ask me to define “Googley.” Now I can just tell them to walk by any of the newly decorated walls (you should too, if you happen to visit a Google office). This is what happens when you give Googlers a little space—and paint guns, a wood shop, litter scraps from micro-kitchens, stained glass, LEDs, dried beans, colorful plastic balls, antique furniture—or just about anything else they can get their hands on, apparently. They create incredible things.



Arcade Fire meets HTML5

What would a music experience designed specifically for the modern web look like? This is a question we've been playing around with for the last few months. Browsers and web technologies have advanced so rapidly in the last few years that powerful experiences tailored to each unique person in real-time are now a reality.

Today we’re excited to launch a musical experience made specifically for the browser. Called “The Wilderness Downtown”, the project was created by writer/director Chris Milk with the band Arcade Fire and Google. Building this project on the web and for the browser allowed us to craft an experience that is not only personalized, but also deeply personal for each viewer. “The Wilderness Downtown” takes you down memory lane through the streets you grew up in. It’s set to Arcade Fire’s new song “We Used to Wait” off their newly released album The Suburbs (which you may be familiar with, especially if you were one of 3.7 million viewers who live-streamed Arcade Fire's concert on YouTube earlier this month). The project was built with the latest web technologies and includes HTML5, Google Maps, an integrated drawing tool, as well as multiple browser windows that move around the screen.


“The Wilderness Downtown” was inspired by recent developments in modern browsers and was built with Google Chrome in mind. As such, it’s best experienced in Chrome or an up-to-date HTML5-compliant browser. You can launch the project and learn more about it on our Chrome Experiments site at www.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefire.

We hope you enjoy it.

Minggu, 29 Agustus 2010

Recent Post dengan Thumbnail Widget

Penggunaan widget recent post adalah penting untuk menunjukkan kepada pengunjung apa entri-entri terbaru yang terdapat dalam blog. Lagi berguna jika pengunjung yang datang bukannya dari frontpage. Jadi widget recent post sangat penting ketika ini.

Sebelum ini sudah diletakakn Animated recent post widget,tetapi untuk kali ini, tutorial akan menunjukkan cara meletakkan recent post widget, tetapi jenis statik.

Contoh adalah seperti gambar ini.


Cara-cara untuk meletakkan widget ini adalah seperti berikut:

1. Dari dashoard > desin > add a gadget > HTML/javascript

2. Dalam ruangan HTML/javascript, masukkan kod berikut.
<script language="JavaScript">

imgr = new Array();


imgr[0] = "http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TSBlHGugCBI/AAAAAAAAFPA/Z5MTCuXMpEs/no_image.gif";

imgr[1] = "http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TSBlHGugCBI/AAAAAAAAFPA/Z5MTCuXMpEs/no_image.gif";

imgr[2] = "http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TSBlHGugCBI/AAAAAAAAFPA/Z5MTCuXMpEs/no_image.gif";

imgr[3] = "http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TSBlHGugCBI/AAAAAAAAFPA/Z5MTCuXMpEs/no_image.gif";

imgr[4] = "http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TSBlHGugCBI/AAAAAAAAFPA/Z5MTCuXMpEs/no_image.gif";
showRandomImg = true;

boxwidth = 298;

cellspacing = 8;

borderColor = "#ffffff";

bgTD = "#000000";

thumbwidth = 40;

thumbheight = 40;

fntsize = 12;

acolor = "#666";

aBold = true;

icon = " ";

text = "comments";

showPostDate = false;

summaryPost = 40;

summaryFontsize = 10;

summaryColor = "#666";

icon2 = " ";

numposts = 5;

home_page = "http://URL ANDA.blogspot.com/";

</script>

<script src="https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/recentpostthumnail.js" type="text/javascript"></script>



Note:

Anda boleh ubah beberapa kod mengikut kesesuaian blog anda.

boxwidth - lebar widget
cellspacing - jarak antara cell (default sudah ok)
borderColor - Warna background (untuk melihat senarai kod warna, RUJUK SINI)
thumbwidth & thumbheight - lebar dan tinggi thumbnail (default sudah ok)
fntsize - Size untuk tajuk
acolor - Warna tajuk.untuk melihat senarai kod warna, RUJUK SINI)
aBold - Mahu tajuk di'tebalkan' atau tidak (true or false)
numposts - Bilangan recent post yang dikehendak
home_page : http://URL ANDA.blogspot.com/ (Gantikal URL ANDA dengan url blog anda)


3. Save dan lihat hasilnya.:)

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-Bagi yang buat tetapi tidak menjadi, dari dashboard > settings > site feed
- Pada allow site feeds, pilih FULL

Jumat, 27 Agustus 2010

Jadikan Cursor Anda Berkilauan (sparkle)

Tutorial ini akan menunjukkan bagaimana untuk menjadikan cursor anda menghasilkan 'bintang²' yang berkerlipan. Terdapat pelbagai jenis warna yang telah diletakkan untuk memudahkan pemilik blog sesuaikan dengan warna thema masing². Kata lain yang mungkin sesuai ialah untuk menjadikan cursor anda sparkle.(tak tahu istilah betul apa untuk effect ini.:)

Kalau masih tidak faham bagaimana hasilnya, boleh lihat contoh gambar di bawah.:)

Sebelum itu, tutorial ini juga boleh digambungkan dengan tutorial tukar cursor pada blog anda. Semestinya untuk menjadikannya lebih menarik. Sudah di'test' dan dibuktikan boleh.:)

Tutorial untuk membuatkan cursor anda menjadi sparkle adalah seperti berikut:

1. Dari dashboard > design > add a gadget > HTML/javascript

2. Pada ruangan HTML/javascript, masukkan kod berikut.

<script src="URL JS" type="text/javascript"></script>



Note: untuk URL JS, tukarkan dengan kod berikut mengikut warna sprakle yang anda kehendaki

Biru - https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/biru.js

Hitam - https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/black.js

hijau - https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/lawngreen.js

Ungu - https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/purple.js

Putih - https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/putih.js

Pink - https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/salmon.js

Kuning - https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/yellow.js

Hijau kebiruan - https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/aqua.js

Contoh: jika anda mahu mouse anda dengan sparkle warna biru, kodnya adalah:

<script src="https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/biru.js" type="text/javascript"></script>



3. Apabila sudah masukkan kod, save dan lihat hasilnya..

Senang bukan.?
Selamat mencuba.:)

This week in search 8/27/10

This is one of a regular series of posts on search experience updates. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed.

Searches come in many flavors, but it's our job to determine what type of search you're doing once you've clicked your way out of the search box. Whether you're looking for a blog or a business, our goal is to get you the most relevant type of result back to you—fast. Ultimately, it's that combination of relevance and speed that we think will give you the best experience. Here are some of our newest search enhancements:

Improved Blog Search
With the proliferation of specialized blogs all across the web, you'll often find great content on blogs—whether you're planning a trip to Florida, looking to bring home a new golden retriever or learning how to make a delicious Italian dinner. Recently, our blog search team made it much easier to find full blogs about your query, rather than single posts on the topic. This is especially useful if you're looking for bloggers that post on an ongoing basis about the subject of your query. Try it with one of your search queries by clicking "Blogs," then "Homepages," in the left-hand panel of your search results.

Example searches: [tesla car], [google], [android]

A new home for Realtime Search
When we think about relevancy, often what you're looking for may have just happened. It's been more than nine months since we first announced our real-time search features, and this week we gave it a new home at www.google.com/realtime as well as some great new tools to you refine and understand your results. You can use geographic refinements to find updates and news that's happening right near you or in the area of your choice. We also added conversations view, so you can follow a discussion more easily by browsing a full timeline of tweets and seeing how the conversation evolved. And in Google Alerts, you can now create an alert specifically for "updates" to get an email the moment a topic of interest shows up on Twitter or other short-form services.

Realtime Search and updates in Google Alerts are available globally in 40 languages, and the geographic refinements and conversations views are available in English, Japanese, Russian and Spanish.

Example search: [egg recall]

More local results in maps and clickable markers
We made some changes to local results in web search that will help you learn more about the results and save you time by saving you clicks. Starting this week, when you search for places we'll show you all of the results that match your query on the map. Results after the first seven will be shown with small circle markers. This can be very useful in identifying the density of stores and helping you find the right neighborhood to visit. For example, when you search for [fabric stores nyc], you can now easily identify the Garment District:


When you see a result on the map that you like, you can now click directly on the marker (the pin or the circle) and go to Google Maps with that place selected and the "Info" window open. The other results will still be there if you want to explore more places.

Example searches: [fabric stores nyc], [coffee in seattle], [resort near ko samui, thailand]

We hope you find these updates useful. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks.

Find out what’s hot on search with the Google Beat

Every day, there are more than a billion searches for information on Google. Have you ever wondered what those searches are about—or whether what you’re searching for also happens to be on the minds of millions of others across the country? We’re introducing a new way to find out—a regular video series called the Google Beat that highlights some of the hottest searches on Google in the U.S.

Using data from Google Trends, Google Insights for Search and some additional tools, the Google Beat will give you a snapshot of some of the topics that prompted people to turn to the web over the past week. You’ve probably seen our previous deep dives into Google search trends, like our annual year-end Zeitgeist and posts here about search trends related to events like the World Cup, the Oscars® and beyond. Searches can be unexpected, and sometimes what’s popular one week could never have been predicted the week before (think of Falcon Heene, last October’s “balloon boy” or Steven Slater). We’re looking forward to seeing what our data will reveal.

Check out this week’s premier video below, and subscribe to the Google Beat YouTube channel to get regular updates. We hope you enjoy.



Kamis, 26 Agustus 2010

Google Realtime Search: a new home with new tools

When we first introduced our real-time search features last December, we focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Our goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usual search results. Today we’re making our most significant enhancements to date, giving real-time information its own home and more powerful tools to help you find what you need. Now you can access Google Realtime Search at its own address, www.google.com/realtime (the page is rolling out now and should be available soon. Use this link if you want to try out the new features right away).

On the new homepage you’ll find some great tools to help you refine and understand your results. First, you can use geographic refinements to find updates and news near you, or in a region you specify. So if you’re traveling to Los Angeles this summer, you can check out tweets from Angelenos to get ideas for activities happening right where you are.

In addition, we’ve added a conversations view, making it easy to follow a discussion on the real-time web. Often a single tweet sparks a larger conversation of re-tweets and other replies, but to put it together you have to click through a bunch of links and figure it out yourself. With the new “full conversation” feature, you can browse the entire conversation in a single glance. We organize the tweets from oldest to newest and indent so you quickly see how the conversation developed.

Finally, we’ve also added updates content to Google Alerts, making it easy to stay informed about a topic of your choosing. Now you can create an alert specifically for “updates” to get an email the moment your topic appears on Twitter or other short-form services. Or, if you want to manage your email volume, you can set alerts to email you once per day or week.

Check out our demo video of the new features and quick tips on how to use them:



You can access Realtime Search by typing www.google.com/realtime directly into your browser, or clicking the “Updates” link in the left-hand panel of your search results. Set up your Google Alerts at www.google.com/alerts. Realtime Search and updates in Google Alerts are available globally in 40 languages, and the geographic refinements and conversations views are available in English, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. The features are rolling out now, but you can use this link to see them right away.

Rabu, 25 Agustus 2010

Top Commentor Widget

Siapakah yang paling kerap komen pada blog anda.? Jika itu persoalannya, widget ini adalah jawapannya.:). Widget top commentor ini merupakan antara yang paling 'lengkap' ada ketika ini untuk sesiapa yang menggunakan platform blogger.
cara pasang widget top commentor pada blog

Ini kerana, dengan widget ini anda boleh menentukan siapakan yang paling kerap komen dengan ciri-ciri tambahan tertentu iaitu anda boleh tetapkan samada komen untuk keseluruhan blog anda sejak diwujudkan, ataupun pada jangka masa yang tertentu seperti sebulan atau lain-lain jangka masa Selain itu, dengan widget ni, senarai pengomen yang anda tidak mahu masukkan dalam senarai pun boleh dikecualikan.

Tutorial untuk memasang widget top commentor adalah seperti berikut.

1. Dari dashboard > design > add a gadget > HTML/javascript

2. Paste kod berikut ke ruangan HTML/javascript
<script type="text/javascript">
function getYpipe(feed) {
document.write('<ol>');
var i;
for (i = 0; i < feed.count ; i++)
{
var href = "'" + feed.value.items[i].link + "'";
if(feed.value.items[i].link == "")
var item ="<li>" + feed.value.items[i].title + "</li>";
else
var item = "<li>" + "<a href="+ href + '" target="_blank">' + feed.value.items[i].title + "</a> </li>";
document.write(item);
}
document.write('</ol>');
}
</script>
<script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?
YourBlogUrl=http://URL ANDA.blogspot.com
&ExcludedNick1=NAME1
&ExcludedNick2=NAME2
&ExcludedNick3=NAME3
&ShowHowMany=10
&ExcludeCommentsBefore=08-01-2010 (i.e. 01-01-2010)
&IncludeCommentsBefore=08-31-2010 (i.e. 01-31-2010)
&_callback=getYpipe
&_id=932ec72eca30a5b8a83365f4eb4349cd
&_render=json"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<small><a href="http://tutorialuntukblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/top-commentor-widget.html">Get this widget here</a></small>



Note:


i.Tukarkan URL ANDA dengan url blog anda

ii.NAME 1, NAME 2, NAME 3 - letakkan dengan nama yang anda tidak kehendaki. Anonymous automatic terkecuali, Untuk tahu senarai nama yang mungkin anda tidak mahu, savekan dahulu, apabila dipaparkan diblog,baru anda tahu. Jika tidak mahu abaikan bahagian ini.

iii.SHOW HOW MANY - gantikan dengan berapa bilangan yang anda mahu dipaparkan

iv.Comment Before: Contoh yang diberi adalah coment untuk bulan 8 sahaja. Jika mahu senarai pengomen dari keseluruhan, tinggalkan kosong bahagian ini


3. Apabila selesai, save dan lihat hasilnya.:)

Sixth annual Summer of Code flexes some serious geek girl muscle

Our sixth annual Google Summer of Code program has wrapped up and we want to highlight some of this year’s amazing participants and projects. Summer of Code offers students developers all over the world the chance to get paid to write code for open source projects as an alternative to a summer job.

Kicked off in 2005, the Summer of Code has brought together more than 3,400 students with more than 200 open source projects from all over the world to create millions of lines of code. We work with several open source, free software and technology-related groups to identify and fund projects through three months of coding.

There was some really awesome work done by more than 1,000 students from 69 countries in this year’s Summer of Code. Of those students, 6.5 percent were women representing 23 countries—six times higher than the estimated proportion of women in the open source community. Here are just a few of the women:

25 reference manuals in her purse
Ann Marie Horcher, an information systems security Ph.D. candidate at Nova Southeastern University was mentored by Docbook.org. Ann Marie worked over the summer to create an application that transformed a docbook file to epub format used in ebook readers such as the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes and Noble Nook and the iPad. As a result of Ann Marie’s project, it’s now easier to move technical documentation to a portable format so she “can carry my 25 reference manuals for my project with me in my purse.” And now, so can everyone else.

Check out Ann Marie’s YouTube video illustrating her work and its results here.

Geophylogenies now displayed on Google Earth
Kathryn Iverson, a University of Michigan bioinformatics graduate student was mentored by National Evolutionary Biology Synthesis Center and wrote a library implemented in Java with KML to build geophylogenies—geographical evolutionary histories of organisms. She told us: "Since I was starting from scratch it was up to me to decide in what direction I should move the project and make decisions about everything from what input filetypes to support to the color and size of the geophylogenies when they are displayed in Google Earth."


When asked about her key takeaways, she said, "Working remotely required me to be clear and verbose about what I needed because with the time difference (my mentor was on the other side of the globe), I may not get a response until the next day, which can slow down work tremendously if you're not clear in asking your questions."

Bridesmaid brings word tag clouds to biological networks
Layla Oesper, a Brown University computer science Ph.D. candidate mentored by Cytoscape, was attracted to Summer of Code because she was looking for a summer job that would give her the flexibility to work and still participate in two weddings. Layla built a plugin for Cytoscape that would allow people to create word tag clouds from biological networks they’d already created in Cytoscape, giving users a visual semantic summary of a biological network. The final product has all sorts of configurable features, including the ability to cluster together words that appear near each other in the original network in the order in which the words appear.

Check out what Layla learned during her Summer of Code experience on YouTube.

Drupal gets more content management friendly
Emily Brand, a computer science graduate student from Loyola University Chicago, was mentored by Drupal.org, an open source content management platform. During her summer, she worked on QueryPath—an essential part of the Drupal and PHP communities. Her goal was to keep and increase Drupal’s popularity by making it a go-to content management system for websites focused on web services using PHP.

Emily says she learned “how to effectively work on an open source project while keeping and improving the users and developers requirements as well as how to effectively integrate web services in Drupal.”


You can find out more about this year’s program and projects on the Open Source Blog, and if you’re in college looking to write some open source code, we hope we’ll see you next summer.

Call phones from Gmail

(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog)

Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Given that most of us don’t spend all day in front of our computers, we thought, “wouldn’t it be nice if you could call people directly on their phones?”

Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail.



Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates. We worked hard to make these rates really cheap (see comparison table) with calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan—and many more countries—for as little as $0.02 per minute.

Dialing a phone number works just like a normal phone. Just click “Call phone” at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name.


We’ve been testing this feature internally and have found it to be useful in a lot of situations, ranging from making a quick call to a restaurant, to placing a call when you’re in an area with bad reception.

If you have a Google Voice phone number, calls made from Gmail will display this number as the outbound caller ID. And if you decide to, you can receive calls made to this number right inside Gmail (see instructions).

We’re rolling out this feature to U.S. based Gmail users over the next few days, so you’ll be ready to get started once “Call Phones” shows up in your chat list (you will need to install the voice and video plug-in if you haven’t already). If you’re not a U.S. based user—or if you’re using Google Apps for your school or business—then you won’t see it quite yet. We’re working on making this available more broadly—so stay tuned!

For more information, visit gmail.com/call.

Update Aug 26: This has now been rolled out to everyone in the U.S. If you don't see the feature yet, try logging out of Gmail and signing back in.

Selasa, 24 Agustus 2010

Google Scholarship program kicks off in China

About a week ago, we hosted more than 130 Google Scholarship recipients in our Beijing office. These outstanding undergraduates and graduate students in computer science and software engineering from more than 20 universities across China were the recipients of the Google Excellence Scholarship and the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship—our first scholarships in China. The students participated in an awards ceremony and toured the Google office.

The Google Excellence Scholarship aims to award the outstanding undergraduates and master degree students from the computer science and software engineering disciplines. It has been set up at 20 top universities in China, with five awardees for each university—three undergraduates and two graduates.

The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship supports outstanding female students in computer science, including undergraduates, master's degree students and Ph.D. students, at five top universities. There are six awardees for each university (three undergrads and three graduate students), as well as three awardees from Taiwan.

Google has been collaborating with Chinese universities for a long time through a variety of programs—ranging from curriculum development, donations, to today’s scholarship program—to support the education of talented students in China. And we'll extend into other university collaboration programs in the future.

Congratulations to all the Google Scholarship recipients! And if you read Chinese, check out our corresponding post on the Google China Blog.

Google Scholarship Universities for 2010:
Beihang University, Beijing Normal University, Fudan University*, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nankai University, Peking University*, Renmin University of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University*, Shandong University, South China University of Technology, Southeastern University, Sun Yat-sen University*, Tianjin University, Tongji University, Tsinghua University*, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, University of Science and Technology of China, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Wuhan University

*Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Program universities

What do you think about human rights (and your rights) online?

Government police shutting down farmer’s protests in China. A tobacco company employing under-age workers in Kazakhstan. Iranian merchants striking to protest tax increases in Tehran. We've seen stories like these on our computers and phones every day, and YouTube has been documenting many of them on our breaking news feed on Citizentube over the past few months. Videos like these are more than just breaking news images; they're often political statements meant to bring about change.

Earlier this summer YouTube started a blog series with WITNESS, a human rights video advocacy and training organization, examining the role of online video in human rights. So far we’ve talked about why video matters to human rights and how you can protect yourself and the people you film when uploading to YouTube.

Now we want to raise some key topics about the future of human rights video online, and to hear your thoughts and ideas in a special Moderator series that we've set up. Read more about this project on the YouTube blog.

Senin, 23 Agustus 2010

Popular Post Dalam Blog (berdasarkan page view)

Sebelum ini sudah ada tutorial untuk widget popular post berdasarkan komen terbanyak yang terdapat dalam sesebuah entri. Untuk kali ini, tutorial adalah untuk memasukkan popular post berdasarkan kepada jumlah bilangan page view bagi sesebuah entri.

Widget ini agak simple, diambil dari foxrecord.com. Widget ini akan berfungsi serta merta sebaik sahaja kod diletakkan di blog.

Tutorial untuk meletakkan widget ini adalah seperti berikut.

1. Dari dashboard > design > add a gadget > HTML/javascript

2. Masukkan kod berikut ke ruangan HTML/javascript(tidak perlu ubah apa-apa)

<script src="https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/toppostpageview.js" type="text/javascript"></script>


3. Save dan lihat hasilnya. (anda mungkin perlu klik pada 3/4 link dalam blog anda untuk ianya terus berfungsi)


Note:
1:Jumlah popular post yang ditetapkan hanya 5.
2:Post terus diletakkan berdasarkan ranking tanpa memaparkan bilangan page view.

Selamat mencuba.:)

Minggu, 22 Agustus 2010

Animated Recent Post Widget

Update: Bagi sesiapa yang menghadapi masalah background widget ini tunjuk 'bandwidth exceed", boleh copy semula kod dibawah, dan masukkan semula url anda..

Kesulitan dikesali.


Meletakkan animated recent post widget dapat men'stail'kan lagi cara paparan recent post yang ada pada blog anda. Contoh recent post widget adalah seperti berikut.

(tunggu page habis load utk tengok pergerakan, pergerakan sebenar adalah lebih perlahan dan lancar)


Berikut adalah cara-cara untuk menggunakan widget ini.

1. Dari dashboard > design > add a gadget > HTML/javascript

2. copy code berikut dan paste di ruangan HTML/javascript

<center><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!--

#spylist {
overflow:hidden;
margin-top:5px;
padding:0px 0px;
height:350px;
}
#spylist ul{
width:220px;
overflow:hidden;
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0px 0px;
margin:0px 0px;
}
#spylist li {
width:208px;
padding: 5px 5px;
margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;
list-style-type:none;
float:none;
height:70px;
overflow: hidden;
background:#fff repeat-x;
border:1px solid #ddd;
}

#spylist li a {
text-decoration:none;
color:#4B545B;
font-size:11px;
height:18px;
overflow:hidden;
margin:0px 0px;
padding:0px 0px 2px 0px;
}
#spylist li img {
float:left;
margin-right:5px;
background:#EFEFEF;
border:0;
}
.spydate{
overflow:hidden;
font-size:10px;
color:#0284C2;
padding:2px 0px;
margin:1px 0px 0px 0px;
height:15px;
font-family:Tahoma,Arial,verdana, sans-serif;
}

.spycomment{
overflow:hidden;
font-family:Tahoma,Arial,verdana, sans-serif;
font-size:10px;
color:#262B2F;
padding:0px 0px;
margin:0px 0px;
}

-->
</style>
<script language='javascript'>

imgr = new Array();
imgr[0] = "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TPkQUkM0wnI/AAAAAAAAFD8/TxYWe-CMPr8/s320/no_image.gif";
imgr[1] = "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TPkQUkM0wnI/AAAAAAAAFD8/TxYWe-CMPr8/s320/no_image.gif";
imgr[2] = "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TPkQUkM0wnI/AAAAAAAAFD8/TxYWe-CMPr8/s320/no_image.gif";
imgr[3] = "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TPkQUkM0wnI/AAAAAAAAFD8/TxYWe-CMPr8/s320/no_image.gif";
imgr[4] = "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CEj8AwvwSNM/TPkQUkM0wnI/AAAAAAAAFD8/TxYWe-CMPr8/s320/no_image.gif";
showRandomImg = true;
boxwidth = 255;
cellspacing = 6;
borderColor = "#232c35";
bgTD = "#000000";
thumbwidth = 70;
thumbheight = 70;
fntsize = 12;
acolor = "#666";
aBold = true;
icon = " ";
text = "comments";
showPostDate = true;
summaryPost = 40;
summaryFontsize = 10;
summaryColor = "#666";
icon2 = " ";
numposts = 10;
home_page = "http://URL BLOG.blogspot.com/";
limitspy=4
intervalspy=4000
</script>

<div id="spylist">
<script src='https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/animatedrecentpost.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
</div>
</center>
<small><a href="http://tutorialuntukblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/animated-recent-post-widget.html" target="_blank">get this widget here</a></small>


Note: gantikan URL BLOG dengan url blog anda..

3. Save dan lihat hasilnya.

-------------------

PERHATIAN: Didapati tidak semua template blog 'boleh masuk' dengan widget ini. Kemungkin sebahagian besar boleh menggunakan widget ini. Oleh itu anda boleh mencuba dahulu samada boleh guna atau tidak untuk blog anda. Masih belum jumpa penyelesaian untuk itu.

Harap blog anda boleh menggunakan widget ini.
Selamat mencuba.:)

Sabtu, 21 Agustus 2010

Tukar Cursor Untuk Blog Anda

Menukar cursor untuk blog anda dapat menghilangkan rasa bosan melihat cursor default yang digunakan oleh komputer anda.(berbentuk anak panah putih). Atau mungkin juga anda inginkan sedikit kelainan pada cursor berbanding cursor biasa.

Tutorial kali ini ialah berkongsi website yang dapat memudahkan anda mendapatkan kod bagi cursor ini serta sedikit pengubahsuaian pada kod tersebut.

1. Buka website http://www.cursors-4u.com/

2. Pilih cursor kegemaran anda. (Pastikan anda TIDAK mengambil cursor yang jenis animated, kerana ianya hanya berfungsi dalam IE)

3. Copy code yang diberikan. Contoh kod adalah seperti berikut. Kemudian DELETE kod yang telah diwarnakan seperti dibawah
<style type="text/css">body, a, a:hover {cursor: url(http://cur.cursors-4u.net/cursors/cur-2/cur116.cur), progress;}</style><a href="http://www.cursors-4u.com/cursor/2008/12/17/cool-blue-outer-glow-pointer.html" target="_blank" title="Cool Blue Outer Glow Pointer"><img src="http://cursors-4u.com/support.gif" border="0" alt="Cool Blue Outer Glow Pointer" style="position:absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px;" /></a>

4. Kod akhir sepatutnya kelihatan seperti ini sahaja.
<style type="text/css">body, a, a:hover {cursor: url(http://cur.cursors-4u.net/cursors/cur-2/cur116.cur), progress;}</style>

5. Kemudian dari dashboard anda > design > add a gadget > HTML/javascript, pastekan kod di atas diruangan tersebut.

6. Save dan lihat hasilnya.

Mudah bukan.:)

Jumat, 20 Agustus 2010

Google Apps highlights – 8/20/2010

This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.

Over the last few weeks, we made it easier to find more kinds of information in Gmail as well as use multiple Gmail accounts at once. Google Docs and Google Sites both added new features, and we released improved tools to move existing data to Google Apps.

Find docs and sites quickly from Gmail
On Wednesday we cooked up our newest Labs feature in Gmail—a more powerful version of Gmail’s search feature. Now, not only can you search for messages and chats, you can also search for information in Google Docs and Google Sites from your inbox. This is a big time-saver when you don’t remember where the information you’re looking for is saved. We also recently added the ability to drag attachments from Gmail to your desktop if you use Google Chrome.


Use multiple Gmail accounts at once
Life is now easier for people with multiple Gmail accounts. With the new multiple sign-in feature, you can toggle back and forth between accounts, or even have Gmail open in two tabs with different accounts. To learn more about this feature for advanced users, head over to the Gmail Blog.


Improvements to documents, spreadsheets and drawings in Google Docs
We rolled out a rapid-fire string of useful features for Google Docs over the last couple weeks, including alternate page sizes and resizable tables in documents, spell checking in spreadsheets, and a new curve rendering tool in drawings. All these features make creating and collaborating with others in real-time on documents, spreadsheets and drawings easier.


New site navigation choices in Google Sites
Google Sites got in on the action this week too, with the ability to add horizontal navigation buttons, tabs or links to your sites. We also added the option to include a site-wide footer on your pages, and made it easier for people to open embedded documents in a new tab where users with access can make edits.


App Tuesday: Nine new additions to the Apps Marketplace
For organizations, a key advantage of Google Apps is immediate access to productivity-enhancing innovations from third-party software companies. This month, nine new applications were added to the Apps Marketplace. Instead of struggling with patches and updates each month, Google Apps customers can activate new functionality with just a couple clicks.

Who’s gone Google?
We have a long list of new customers to share who have recently switched to Google Apps. A warm welcome goes out to Roberto Cavalli, HÔM Real Estate Group, Luna & Larry’s Coconut Bliss, Bergelectric, the cities of Westerville and Wooster in Ohio, as well as the State of Maryland, which will be making Google Apps available to all 1.4 million of its K-12 and higher education students.

If your business or school is ready to “go Google”, we’re happy to report that making the switch is even easier with new data migration options. In addition to our existing tools to migrate email, contacts and calendar data from Microsoft Exchange, hosted Exchange and Lotus Notes, last week we simplified the process to migrate from IMAP systems and PST data files.

I hope these updates help you or your organization get even more from Google Apps. For details and the latest news in this area, check out the Google Apps Blog.

Showing more results from a domain

Webmaster Level: All

Today we’ve launched a change to our ranking algorithm that will make it much easier for users to find a large number of results from a single site. For queries that indicate a strong user interest in a particular domain, like [exhibitions at amnh], we’ll now show more results from the relevant site:



Prior to today’s change, only two results from www.amnh.org would have appeared for this query. Now, we determine that the user is likely interested in the Museum of Natural History’s website, so seven results from the amnh.org domain appear. Since the user is looking for exhibitions at the museum, it’s far more likely that they’ll find what they’re looking for, faster. The last few results for this query are from other sites, preserving some diversity in the results.

We’re always reassessing our ranking and user interface, making hundreds of changes each year. We expect today’s improvement will help users find deeper results from a single site, while still providing diversity on the results page.


Letak Widget Popular Post Dalam Blog

Anda menaip blog, tetapi adakah anda tahu dalam banyak-banyak entri yang anda ada, entri manakah yang paling popular.? Entri manakah yang mempunyai komen paling tinggi.? Tentu sukar untuk menentukan apatah lagi jika anda sudahpun mempunyai entri sehingga mencapai ratusan.:)


Tutorial kali ini akan menunjukkan cara bagaimana untuk meletakkan popular post( atau anda boleh panggil dengan nama lain) pada blog anda. Widget popular post ini adalah berdasarkan bilangan komen yang ada pada entri, bukannya berdasarkan page view. Dan semestinya tutorial ini adalah mudah sahaja.:)

1. Login akaun anda, dari dashboard > design > add a gadget > HTML/javascript

2. Dalam ruangan HTML/javascript, masukkan kod di bawah.

<ul>
<script language='javascript'>
aBold = false;
numposts=1000;
maxshowresult=5;
home_page = "http://URL BLOG.blogspot.com/";
</script>
<script src='https://sites.google.com/site/unwanted86/javascript/unwanted86-popularpost.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
</ul><br/><small><a href="http://tutorialuntukblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/letak-widget-popular-post-dalam-blog.html" target="_blank"/>Get this widget here </a></small>



Note:
-tukarkan URL BLOG dengan nama blog yang anda guna
-maxshowresult=5; tukarkan 5 dengan bilangan popular post yang anda mahu

3. Save dan lihat hasilnya..:)

Kamis, 19 Agustus 2010

Our latest search story: run on

This is part of our summer series of new Search Stories. Look for the label Search Stories and subscribe to the series. -Ed.

Recently, a group of Google product managers challenged one another to run 100 miles over 30 days in the interest of encouraging summer fitness. I grew up in Huntsville, AL, where I always loved exercising and experiencing the great outdoors, so I took to the challenge immediately. One hundred and thirty-three miles and a few pairs of new running shoes later, it was an incredible opportunity to push myself further than I’d ever imagined. But, I must admit—it wasn’t easy.

I’m delighted to help introduce our latest Search Story, Healthy Habits. This is a story of one woman’s journey to get back into shape. It shows the difficulties of sticking to a workout routine, and the empowerment that comes with reaching—and even exceeding your goals. It highlights the many tools and tricks that make Google a great workout companion, and I hope it inspires you to incorporate new healthy habits into your own lifestyle.



Enjoy this week’s video, and don’t forget to check out the other videos if you haven’t already. Search (and run) on!

Update Aug 20: Some of you may have had trouble watching this video due to "restricted" messages, especially if you're reading this post in a feed reader. We're working to resolve the issue now—in the meantime, you can still watch on the blog itself or directly on YouTube. -Ed.
Update Aug 20, 3:00 PM PST: The video should be viewable everywhere now. Thanks for your patience.

Rabu, 18 Agustus 2010

Letak Button Back To Top

Meletakkan button 'back to top' biasanya digunakan untuk blogger yang kebiasaannya mempunyai entri yang panjang, ataupun entri blog tersebut sentiasa mempunyai komen yang banyak atau mungkin juga sebagai penyeri agaknya.:)
anda boleh melihat contoh back to top button di blog demo ini.



Walaupun terdapat pelbagai cara yang agak advance dengan kesan yang lagi hebat-hebat, tetapi entri ini akan menunjukkan cara yang paling ringkas untuk meletakkan button back to top ini. Tidak perlu pening kepala kerana ia hanya menggunakan beberapa step sahaja.:)

Berikut adalah tutorial untuk meletakkan button back to top dalam blog.


1. Login akaun blog anda, kemudian dari dashboard > design > add a gadget > html/javascript

2. Paste kod di bawah ke dalam ruangan html/javascript
<a title="Back to Top" href="#" style="position: fixed; bottom: 5px; right: 5px;"><img src="Url gambar"></a>



Masukkan url gambar dengan url gambar 'arrow back to top' anda.

Disini ada beberapa jenis arrow diletakkan, hanya untuk memudahkan. Tetapi jika anda ingin mencari pelbagai lagi jenis back to top arrow, anda Google sahaja.


http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/9871/2evyotw.gif


http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5848/totopbutton.png


http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7297/up3.png


http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/2494/30720265.png


http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/1986/96133335.png


http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9831/14193731.gif


3. Apabila selesai save dan lihatlah hasilnya.:)


Verification time savers —  Analytics included!

Webmaster Level: All

Nobody likes to duplicate effort. Unfortunately, sometimes it's a fact of life. If you want to use Google Analytics, you need to add a JavaScript tracking code to your pages. When you're ready to verify ownership of your site in other Google products (such as Webmaster Tools), you have to add a meta tag, HTML file or DNS record to your site. They're very similar tasks, but also completely independent. Until today.

You can now use a Google Analytics JavaScript snippet to verify ownership of your website. If you already have Google Analytics set up, verifying ownership is as simple as clicking a button.


This only works with the newer asynchronous Analytics JavaScript, so if you haven't migrated yet, now is a great time. If you haven't set up Google Analytics or verified yet, go ahead and set up Google Analytics first, then come verify ownership of your site. It'll save you a little time — who doesn't like that? Just as with all of our other verification methods, the Google Analytics JavaScript needs to stay in place on your site, or your verification will expire. You also need to remain an administrator on the Google Analytics account associated with the JavaScript snippet.

Don't forget that once you've verified ownership, you can add other verified owners quickly and easily through the Verification Details page. There's no need for each owner to manually verify ownership. More effort and time saved!


We've also introduced an improved interface for verification. The new verification page gives you more information about each verification method. In some cases, we can now provide detailed instructions about how to complete verification with your specific domain registrar or provider. If your provider is included, there's no need to dig through their documentation to figure out how to add a verification DNS record — we'll walk you through it.


The time you save using these new verification features might not be enough to let you take up a new hobby, but we hope it makes the verification process a little bit more pleasant. As always, please visit the Webmaster Help Forum if you have any questions.

Senin, 16 Agustus 2010

To err is human, Video Sitemap feedback is divine!

Webmaster Level: All

You can now check your Video Sitemap for even more errors right in Webmaster Tools! It’s a new Labs feature to signal issues in your Video Sitemap such as:
  • URLs disallowed by robots.txt
  • Thumbnail size errors (160x120px is ideal. Anything smaller than 90x50 will be rejected.)



Video Sitemaps help us to better crawl and extract information about your videos, so we can appropriately feature them in search results.

Totally new to Video Sitemaps? Check out the Video Sitemaps center for more information. Otherwise, take a look at this new Labs feature in Webmaster Tools.

Minggu, 15 Agustus 2010

Video Sitemaps: Understanding location tags

Webmaster Level: All

If you want to add video information to a Sitemap or mRSS feed you must specify the location of the video. This means you must include one of two tags, either the video:player_loc or video:content_loc. In the case of an mRSS feed, these equivalent tags are media:player or media:content, respectively. We need this information to verify that there is actually a live video on your landing page and to extract metadata and signals from the video bytes for ranking. If one of these tags is not included we will not be able to verify the video and your Sitemap/mRSS feed will not be crawled. To reduce confusion, here is some more detail about these elements.

Video Locations Defined

Player Location/URL: the player (e.g., .swf) URL with corresponding arguments that load and play the actual video.

Content Location/URL: the actual raw video bytes (e.g., .flv, .avi) containing the video content.

The Requirements

One of either the player video:player_loc or content video:content_loc location is required. However, we strongly suggest you provide both, as they each serve distinct purposes: player location is primarily used to help verify that a video exists on the page, and content location helps us extract more signals and metadata to accurately rank your videos.

URL extensions at a glance:



















Sitemap:mRSS:Contents:
<loc><link>The playpage URL
<video:player_loc>

<media:player> (url attribute)The SWF URL
<video:content_loc><media:content> (url attribute)The FLV or other raw video URL

NOTE: All URLs should be unique (every URL in your entire Video Sitemap and mRSS feed should be unique)

If you would like to better ensure that only Googlebot accesses your content, you can perform a reverse DNS lookup.

For more information on Google Videos please visit our Help Center, and to post questions and search for answers check out our Help Forum.

Cara Buat Textbox Dalam Blog

Membuat 'kotak' untuk apa sahaja yang anda ingin pamerkan dapat memudahkan para pengunjung untuk mengambil apa yang anda hendak kongsi, kebiasaannya kod atau mungkin juga lain-lain.

Contoh textbox sedia ada adalah textbox untuk code banner blog ini yang kelihatan di sebelah kanan blog ini.Textbox menjadikan code senang dicopy oleh pengunjung anda dan pada masa yang sama menampakkan kekemasan untuk meletakkan code dalam blog anda.
Cara Buat Textbox dalam blog


Tutorial ini akan menunjukkan kepada anda asas kepada textbox ini serta beberapa penambahan yang boleh dilakukan untuk memudahkan pemilik blog ataupun pengunjung.

Contoh kod yang hendak diletakkan didalam textbox adalah seperti berikut.
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1. Asas bagi textbox adalah.
<textarea style="height: 100px; width: 200px; overflow: scroll; background: #8CEFFD;">MASUKKAN KOD ANDA DISINI</textarea>


Note:
height: 100px; > Gantikan dengan ketinggian yang anda kehendaki
width: 200px; > Gantikan dengan lebar yang anda kehendaki
background: #8CEFFD; Gantikan warna background dengan kod tertentu. Untuk kod warna, rujuk disini.

Contoh bagi kod di atas.


2. Untuk buatkan semua kod tersebut di'select' dengan hanya sekali klik pada textbox. Kodnya adalah:
<textarea style="height: 100px; width: 200px; overflow: scroll; background: #8CEFFD;" onclick="this.focus();this.select()" >MASUKKAN KOD ANDA DISINI</textarea>


Contoh textbox jenis ini adalah seperti berikut.


3. Untuk buatkan kod di'select' dengan hanya lalukan tetikus adalah seperti berikut
<textarea style="height: 100px; width: 200px; overflow: scroll; background: #8CEFFD;" onmouseover="this.focus()" onfocus="this.select()" >MASUKKAN KOD ANDA DISINI</textarea>


contox textbox jenis ini adalah


Mudah bukan.?
Kini anda boleh meletakkan kod didalam blog anda dengan lebih mudah dan kemas.

Selamat mencuba.:)