http://blogoscoped.com/forum/ Discussion on Google, other Search Engines, SEO, and Google Blogoscoped en-US http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130874.html#id130874 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080510-security-flaw-turns-gmail-into-open-relay-server.html http://ece.uprm.edu/~andre/insert/gmail.html Gmail's normal approach to messages sent though its SMTP service is to rewrite some of the Message Body headers to prevent identity fraud. By exploiting this flaw, an attacker can easily bypass this restriction. This happens because attack messages are disguised as legitimately destined to a compromised account. This way, Gmail will deliver the message to the attack target without modifying any of the Message Body Headers, and more importantly, it will preserve even forged sender's identity information intact. Since the attack message can be forged at the attacker's will and can be forwarded by Google's servers any number of times, this vulnerability is a major spam and phishing threat concern. * Miss Universe http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130859.html#id130859 Live Messenger blocks links to YouTube.com. I've tested it and it doesn't work. Links to local version like YouTube.nl are working fine. Source: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080510/windows-live-messenger-blocks-wwwyoutubecom/ WebSonic.nl http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130858.html#id130858 I have been using the tip in the post titled "No Google Analytics API? No Problem!" but today a problem appeared. The post titles are shown as "403 Forbidden" but they are linked to the correct page. You can see it at my blog: http://borkenek.blogspot.com How can I solve this? saner http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130857.html#id130857 http://bp2.blogger.com/_N76yGvbMPVw/SCO-juiHXpI/AAAAAAAAABQ/RSuJW6S7lTI/s400/vidnikscreen.jpg >> Vidnik is our newest application in the Google Mac playground. It's a simple program for using the built-in camera on your Mac to create movies and upload them to YouTube. << http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/05/vidnik.html Picnik? (http://picnik.com ) Vidnik? Google's so original. /sarcasm Haochi http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130856.html#id130856 Now you can change the order of the tabs in the settings: http://www.google.com/ig/settings via: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/05/reorder-igoogle-tabs.html hebbet http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130843.html#id130843 This update is for more advanced Webmasters http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/05/design-patterns-for-accessible.html Here is part one http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/webmaster-tips-for-creating-accessible.html Why he felt the need to put a pic of his beloved dog on the site is a mystery to us all - maybe he wanted to make it more personal http://bp1.blogger.com/_o5Na_9269nA/SAOhJGHgjbI/AAAAAAAABJM/GX53IBJVdVs/s1600-h/raman-home.jpg * Miss Universe http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130840.html#id130840 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/09/threes-company-google-to-launch-friend-connect-on-monday/ Like Data Availability and Facebook Connect, Google’s Friend Connect will be a way to securely send personal profile data, including friend lists, presence/status information, etc., to third party applications, ....The primary benefit of these services is to allow users to maintain a single friends list and to coordinate social activities across different sites that perform different services. * Miss Universe http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130834.html#id130834 Yahoo first again; http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/brinkeguthrie/Untitled-31.jpg Brinke Guthrie http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130830.html#id130830 It looks like after Powerword,Google China will team up with Kingsoft to realease an Office Suite in a few months : Kingsoft's WPS Office(WPS means Word presentation and Spreadsheet): http://wps.kingsoft.com/product/ge.shtml Enlish Version:http://en.kingsoft.com/office.htm NOw it offers a free chinese version: http://wps.dl.kingsoft.com/WPS2007.12012.exe Related Info: http://www.cnbeta.com/articles/55374.htm nnn http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130828.html#id130828 At Yahoo!s "News Tools" gathering a Googler explained recently what it takes to get (humanly, not robot-ally) selected as a news source for Google News. EMPHASIS MINE. "[...] Though Google News is published by an algorithm, the DECISION TO INCLUDE a particular website as a source in Google News is made by human beings, [Google's] Meredith said. "What do we look for?" asked Meredith. Four things, he replied: • Original content • • Multiple authors • • • Proper attribution • • • • Response time The first and third points should not be issues for any experienced journalist. But the second point would be of OBVIOUS CONCERN to many bloggers and independent publishers. Great original content from a single talented writer is NOT ENOUGH to get Google's blessing. If you want the traffic the Google News can deliver, consider forging a partnership with OTHER WRITERS or finding ways to elicit high-quality reader-submitted content that can add ADDITIONAL BYLINES to the front page of your site. [...]" http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/080506niles-google-news/print.htm [ The second criterium also sort of explains the well-known "magnetism" of group-authored sites like BoingBoing.net even outside GN. Being updated several times a day doesn't hurt either. ] Ianf http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130815.html#id130815 So it's very nice to have aim logs in gmail but i use pidgin and i was wondering if there was a way to connect to aim through gmail somehow so that it would still be logged in gmail. DPic http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130801.html#id130801 http://googlevideo.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-and-improved-grid-view.html WebSonic.nl http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130781.html#id130781 I spotted this cat in a house near-by. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb41mSXtkQw Philipp Lenssen http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130780.html#id130780 Today is Europe Day! But Google didn't create a doodle. <<What is now the European Union adopted 9 May as "Europe Day" at the Milan summit in 1985, to celebrate that Robert Schuman presented his proposal on the creation of an organised Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations, on 9 May 1950. This proposal, known as the Schuman declaration, is considered by many to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_day#Europe_Day http://www.googlewatchblog.de/template/img/logo_europeday08.png http://www.zorgloob.com/logo/europe.png hebbet http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130758.html#id130758 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1t9ASFGIJlY Google calculated in 2006 that it was giving up as much as $200 million a year by not including text advertisements with its image search results, and that figure has probably increased since, Mayer said. Trials showed that text ads drove people away from conducting image searches, and Google dropped that idea. * Miss Universe http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130734.html#id130734 It seems that Google sell some Radio device (Hardware+software) for Radio broadcasting. http://www.google.com/radioautomation/images/home_screen.jpg It can use widget to manage play list and other radio specific things... http://www.google.com/radioautomation/index.html Luka http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130730.html#id130730 Hi all, I can open the google.com page, but it doenst search. It stays "waiting for google...." But the thing is that it works in MSIE (which I dont wanna use). Also, none of the google services work in firefox, not groups, gmail.. I cleared all the private information and restarted, but still the problem is there. thanks for the help you can provide. arturo http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130720.html#id130720 Anyone else seeing this? The facicon for the main Google page for me is now a blue star within a blue border. Screenshot will be added at some point, having problems with file upload at the moment. Stephen Tordoff http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130713.html#id130713 Almost everything I see on the Google Video homepage at the moment are videos about ultimate fighting (even when logged out)... http://video.google.com Why the lack of diversity? Or do they have a different topic every day? http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-video-fighting.jpg Philipp Lenssen http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130708.html#id130708 http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/9316/gmailaa3.png Amagi Tremper