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The rumors are apparently true. RSS feeds with Google AdSense are coming next week.
The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense
That means contextual adverts in your Feedburner RSS feeds, that will be CPM based, which means you get paid on the number of ad impressions - so the [...]

Why does Microsoft want to buy a failing company like Yahoo for? Like it or not, Google is the main search engine of choice for the overwhelming majority of the online population.
Remember the likes of Excite and Lycos? They seem to have vanished. AltaVista and inktomi got swallowed up by Yahoo themselves.
What Yahoo CAN offer [...]

OpenSocial is basically three APIs bundled together that allows developers to roll out the same application across a number of participating social networks.

So far, the big draw is OpenSocial’s supposed simplicity and openness. Facebook keeps its data secret and  developers have to use its own markup language, whereas OpenSocial is  allowing developers to [...]

I like to live on the edge. I can’t resist it, even though I sometimes regret it. There’s an old saying, I know, “If it ain’t broke, don’t’ fix it”

However, I thought I’d give this upgrade a go. This isn’t my main production machine - yet. However, once I find a few more applications that [...]

I have always found Google Desktop to be useful. Adam over at Books on Tables sent me the link from the Google Blog. I’d not gotten around to checking all my feeds yet this morning.

I know there are some concerns over privacy issues. Yeah, ok, so Google is going to find the contents of my [...]