4 days ago

Google Webmaster Central Blog Webmaster Level: AllWhat's our take on watermarked images for Image Search? It's a complicated topic. I talked with Peter Linsley—my friend at the 'plex, video star, and Product Manager for Image Search—to hear his thoughts.Maile: So, Peter... "watermarked images". Can you break it down for us?Peter: It's understandable tha (Read More)

2 days ago

Google Webmaster Central Blog (This post was largely translated from our Japanese version of the Webmaster Central Blog )Recently I introduced several methods to ensure your mobile site is properly indexed by Google. Today I'd like to share information useful for webmasters who manage both desktop and mobile phone versions of a site.One of the most comm (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Mhocter from Google Reader: This is a guest post by Imagekind artist Warren Keating who is an award-winning artist whose paintings reflect the culmination of 25 years in both figures and landscapes. He has had numerous solo shows of his paintings in the U.S. and Mexico, as well as having sold directly to a variety of collectors around the world. H (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Mhocter from Google Reader: In an earlier post today, regarding Typepad's release of Micro, a new 'micro blogging' implementation on the Typepad platform, I called for interoperable tumbling between blog platforms:[via www.stoweboyd.com]Reblog is not built in to every blog, so even if I am an active Typepad Micro user, I can't reblog every post of eve (Read More)

1 day ago

Micro Persuasion If you're paying any attention to the techosphere today there are two stories dominating the headlines. Both involve non-shipping products.First, Google showed off the first demo of its Chrome OS. Download Squad does a nice job breaking it down...."So what exactly is Chrome OS? It's an operating system based on a web brows (Read More)

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Submitted by Robdiana from blog: Google sort of released ChromeOS yesterday. I say “sort of” because they released the source code, but the official release of the OS is supposed to be in a year. Even the Chrome Blog hedged a bit, “Today we released Chromium OS, the open source project behind Google Chrome OS.” So, they released the open [...]. (Read More)

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TechCrunch Brizzly was first unveiled in private beta at our first CrunchUp event in July, so it’s only appropriate that today, the day of our next CrunchUp, it’s being opened to the public. Now, to be clear, the product is still technically in beta, but that’s only so the team at Thing Labs can keep experimenting with new ways to mak (Read More)

7 days ago

TWIP Copyright Scott Bourne 1996 – All Rights ReservedI haven’t done a great deal of portrait work over the last few years. I’ve been concentrating on wildlife photography. But recently, I found myself shooting portraits and in other situations involving people and I remembered an important lesson. Talk to your subject.One of th (Read More)

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Submitted by Mhocter from Flickr: 10 Days Old This was shot by my wife. Then I processed it in Lightroom, cropped to square format, converted to black & white, and added a little tone for warmth. (Read More)

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Submitted by Mhocter from Flickr: Candy buckeyes from Big Sugar Bakeshop in Studio City, CA, in honor of Ohio State-Michigan Week. Go Buckeyes!. (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Mhocter from Flickr: I'm just playing around with my new Flip video camera, so don't judge me on my videography skills... lol. (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Mhocter from Flickr: This is what usually happens when you try to kiss a hungry newborn :). (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Mhocter from Flickr: Heather going in for a kiss. (Read More)

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