To identify the author of a blog or article, Google checks for a connection between the content page (such as an article), an author page, and a Google Profile. Authorship markup uses the rel attribute (part of the open HTML5 standard) in links to indicate the relationship between a content page and an author page.

The Fetch as Googlebot feature in Webmaster Tools now provides a way to submit new and updated URLs to Google for indexing. After you fetch a URL as Googlebot, if the fetch is successful, you’ll now see the option to submit that URL to our index. When you submit a URL in this way Googlebot will crawl the URL, usually within a day. We’ll then consider it for inclusion in our index.

Detailed review of Web form design with examples, suggestions and recommendations by LukeW Interface Designs

Very easy way to create short screencasts of up to 3 minutes and to share it using Twitter, email or other social media sites.

Looks like an interesting photo sharing concept.

A free tool for managing taskbars if you are using duel monitors. Creates a taskbar on the second monitor and allows you tao manage the screens individually. Neat.

Based on distributed computing technologies Google has publicly disclosed, Hadoop provides an open source implementation for other companies with very large data analysis challenges, including Yahoo! and Facebook. The free software, named for a toy elephant, now runs on some of the largest sites on the Web.

Definitions of Web Analytics measurement concepts created by the WAA standards committee. Provides a generally accepted descriptions of terms.

A cloud-based image optimization service. They provide a few different ways to make image optimization very easy.

Seth proposes a new strategy for deciding how frequently to publish. By publish he means anything like books, newspapers, blog posts etc.

A step by step guide to replace WordPress built-in search with Google Custom Search

Search Twitter in realtime. They index Twitter’s public timeline in realtime, thread together associated tweets, and give you the search tools to dig in.

Productivity and collaboration tools for people working on-line, including, IM, screen sharing, a start page and a personal blog.

Consumer behavior in the market place. Home pages not that important any more, every page is a home page. Great report worth reading.

If you have a large newsletter or email offer subscriber list then you run the risk of users hitting the spam button to unsubscribe. Put the unsub link at the top.

WordPress 2.5 is a signifincant upgrade and they completely skipped 2.4. With mostly user requested updates, it makes a great product even greater.

A developer tool that enables you to run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. They are changing the way we think of webapps!

ComScore says that the big players are tracking our Internet behaviour at many more touch points than most users would expect.

YouSendIt.com, DropFIle.com and 11 other ways to send files.

Microsoft’s answer to Google Docs and Zoho, but they don’t offer Office apps on-line. It’s more focussed on collaboration, like Basecamp.

Google Sites, formerly JotSpot, combines wiki-style documentation with some blog-like features and office-like functionality to make a rich collaboration tool.

Central Desktop provides simple project collaboration tools for business teams

No she’s not really nude, but she is and editor at SearchEngineLand and a this, her blog, offers great insight into SEO matters.

It looks like MS will be pushing IE7 out on Feb 12 as a Windows update. Currently, about half of IE users use IE7, 38% of browsers in total. Expect a big increase!