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Quick Summary Of Google Play Game Services Features
[May 16, 2013] During today’s Google I/O keynote, the company announced Google Play game services – a series of APIs that help developers add more features and value to their Android and iOS games. -
Things To Do Before Writing Code Or Launching Your Website
[April 22, 2013] I found a series of articles that I wrote more than 10 years ago. But, amazingly enough, all of this information is still valid and true. It’s a great primer on what you should, and should not do before launching any website, especially an e-commerce website. -
Facebook Introduces Games Section For Timeline
[April 2, 2013] At GDC last week, Facebook unveiled the Games Developer Center. The hub promises to contain all the information a game developer needs to make games for Facebook or Facebook integrated games for mobile devices. That wasn’t the only announcement, however, as Facebook is also bringing games to the newly redesigned timeline. -
March 28 Is The Deadline For Game Submission For The Ouya’s Launch
[March 11, 2013] Ouya, the little game console that could, is about to be shipped out to all the early adopters that supported the console during its Kickstarter phase. To make sure it has plenty of games before it gets into the hands of gamers, developers are now free to start uploading their creations to Ouya. -
Could Google’s Javascript Bot Be Killing Your Website?
[February 18, 2013] In recent years due to developers misguided attempts to make the web a more interesting place with things like JavaScript and Ajax, search engines have had to come up with new tools to make the content that’s hidden behind these technologies accessible. While I’m sure the people at the Googleplex have nothing but the best [...] -
Google Uploads Latest Android Developer Hangout To YouTube
[February 4, 2013] Google has uploaded a new Android developers hangout discussing various Android dev topics. They do note that the U.S. version of Office Hours has moved on to another format. -
Custom Graph Stories Get Flexible Sentences From Facebook
[January 7, 2013] As a Facebook developer, are you frustrated by the rigid structure of Open Graph sentences? Facebook has a standard that it applies to every story so that each action is described in the same manner using the same action verbs. Honestly, it can get a little boring, and maybe even a little confusing. That’s why [...] -
Google Maps Android API Updated
[December 4, 2012] Google announced that it is launching an update to the Google Maps Android API to include some highly requested features. -
Android 4.2 SDK Released
[November 15, 2012] We've all seen the great new features coming to Android 4.2 by now. The Photo Sphere camera is pretty amazing, and multiple accounts on tablets has been a long time coming. Those features, however, are just the beginning. The new Jelly Bean also has a number of new features that developers will be able to make great use of. -
Firefox Marketplace Now Available
[October 22, 2012] Did you know that Mozilla has an app store? It's called the Firefox Marketplace, and it's an area where developers can sell HTML5 apps. It's going to be a central part of the Firefox OS coming to smartphones early next year. Developers wanting to get a head start can now start gathering important feedback from early testers. -
TypeScript To Make JavaScript Application Development Easier
[October 4, 2012] JavaScript has been one of the core foundations of HTML5 since the beginning. Microsoft has been aggressively pushing HTML5 in Internet Explorer 10. So what happens when you take Microsoft's desire to create proprietary programming languages and their insistence on HTML5? You get TypeScript, the company's own version of JavaScript. -
Worldwide Launch For AdWords Scripts
[September 10, 2012] Google announced that AdWords scripts are now to all advertisers around the world. Google has also added the ability to run more complex scripts, use real-time data to manage campaigns and automate scripts with scheduling. -
Matt Cutts on Panda, Penguin, Quality, Social Signals & More at SES SF 2012!
[August 20, 2012] When Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts arrived for the first session on SES SF Day 2, it was obviously the highlighted event of the day. Matt spoke on a number of issues including Knowledge graph, the Penguin update, SEO and social signals. -
Link Building After Google Penguin
[August 6, 2012] Last month, I talked about The Seven C's of Content Quality, as a way of helping you develop higher quality content. Why is this important? Because the Google Panda algorithm rewards quality content above any other on-page signal, and the Seven C's serve as a proxy for Panda's content quality algorithm. Still, on-page factors are less important to Google ranking than links and social signals-how Google determines the relative importance and context of the page to other experiences on the web. That’s what we’ll cover today. -
Optimize your Article -> The Right Way
[July 10, 2012] How to get the Most from your Online Article Marketing As we all know, in today's business world online marketing is crucial to creating new business opportunities and keeping customers in your pipeline. -
Easily Develop Websites With Mozilla Thimble
[June 19, 2012] If you're reading this, that means that you consume the Web in some fashion. You read, watch and play with all sorts of neat things all over the Internet. Do you create the Web though? A lot less people do that because code is complicated. Mozilla has an answer and it might help turn the Web from a culture of consumption to a culture of creation. -
Google Analytics Switching Over To Core Reporting API Next Week
[June 1, 2012] If you're a user of Google Analytics, then no doubt you're familiar with the Data Export API. You are also probably aware that Google replaced the Data Export API with the Core Reporting API in December of last year. Google gave developers six months to switch over to the new API and those six months are just about up. -
Google App Engine Full Text Search Released To Public
[May 10, 2012] Google claims that a feature that has been consistently requested for App Engine was the addition of full text search. Those requests have not gone unheeded as Google has announced the feature to now be available. -
GWT Now Provides Historical Search Query Data To 90 Days
[April 30, 2012] Google Webmaster Tools will now provide the historical search query data to 90 days. Also, the number of keywords reported has also increased to the top 2,000 for each day of the selected date range. Earlier, the data was available for a period of 35 days, and the number of top keywords was 1000. Webmasters have welcomed this news as this data cannot be accessed from anywhere else and now they can analyze trends better with detailed information. -
Why Should Developers Care About Dart?
[April 16, 2012] There are many languages and platforms when it comes to developing apps for the Web, mobile and servers. One of the languages vying for your attention is Google's Dart Web development language. -
Google Shares 5 Common SEO Mistakes to Avoid
[April 2, 2012] Want some SEO advice direct from the experts? Of course you do, who wouldn't. Well, Google is here to share their pick of the 5 most common SEO mistakes you should avoid. Oh and it seems Mr Google, Matt Cutts, might have a bit of competition in the video advice caper at the moment in the form of Maile Ohye, Google's Developer Programs Tech Lead. -
Get A Better Idea Of How Google Works With This Video
[March 19, 2012] Ever wondered what Google engineers get up to in a meeting? Well you're about to find out? In an unprecedented event, Google opened up the doors to their meeting room and allowed the general public access to one of it's Search Quality meetings. These are the meetings where Google decides if they are going to launch any algorithm changes. -
Quality Improvements In Bing
[March 5, 2012] Google recently started a series of blog posts highlighting various points of progress it has made in its efforts to increase search quality. The results have essentially been lists of monthly changes Google has made to its algorithm and interface. This has been extremely interesting to watchers of the search industry and webmasters who are concerned with search engine optimization. -
Steps For Improving Your Click-Through-Rate
[February 22, 2012] The last few years have brought upon us many changes in the world of SEO. You have probably worked to stay in line with the algorithmic curve, doing what you can do to lift rankings and with it Organic traffic referrals. -
Matt Cutts HangsOut With Indian Webmasters
[January 27, 2012] Recently, the head of Google's Webspam Team, Matt Cutts went on a trip to India and did a ?HangOut' with Indian Webmasters from Hyderabad. This HangOut was a part of his webmaster outreach program with a group of Googlers involved in the same. In order to interact better with the Indian siteowners, this is how Matt welcomed them to ask questions on his Google+ profile, "I'm here in Hyderabad, India, and I might try to do a Google+ hangout in a few minutes to answer some questions from Indian webmasters. If you have SEO questions that you'd like for me to answer, just leave a question in the comments!"
