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!

Proofread, backup, approve comments etc. Here’s a useful reminder of 10 common sense things that we tend to forget.

A hands-on way to highlight your own comments in your WordPress blog’s comments list. Something I have been wanting to do as well.

GeekInterview.com is an Open Database where you can share interview questions, comment/answer any questions. Each question is like discussion thread that helps you to learn and understand each question and answer in detail instead of just reading them.

Exforsys is a community of developers specializing in C, C++, C#, Java, J2EE, .NET, PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel, Oracle Apps., Data warehousing, Oracle/SQL Server/DB2 and Testing, who have come together to share Source code, Articles, Certification details, I

An Open Re-Implementation of Lotus Sametime. The Meanwhile plugin enables you to use Gaim as a Sametime client. Allows logging and tabbed windows.

An interesting perspective on Web traffic analysis. We normally look at Web traffic in linear graphs, but this author has a good point on using log-log charts.

Now here’s a creative way to use Google Maps

This is an interesting read and the outcome is similar to what Marios experienced with digg.com (http://www.mariosalexandrou.com/blog/index.asp?post=218). What I find really interesting in both cases is that they didn’t see any Google AdSense clicks. Th

Users are frequently not aware or forget that they can use public keys for authentication instead of regular old passwords. The idea is that you can authenticate using a public and private key pair that uniquely identifies you. It is easy to set up and

I have been using SnagIt until now specifically for it’s scrolling Web page capturing features. However, FastStone is free for home use and has all the features I need.

For a while now I have been looking for free project management software and finally found GanttProject. GanttProject is a project scheduling application featuring gantt chart, resource management, calendaring, import/export (MS Project, HTML, PDF, spread

Subversion is open source version control software used primarily by developers that keeps every revision ofimportant, frequently changing files. However, Subversion can be useful for many different purposes, whether you’re a web developer or a novelist.

He has interesting links to forgotton Google pages and other SEO insights.

Great posts on SEO related topics including how to price an SEO campaign. There’s also an interesting post on how the top 100 digg.com posters account for 56% of the top diggs – not as representative of the community as one might think!

Short, but comprehensive Unix cheat sheet .

Allows you to create Web forms, host them online, receive responses via email or RSS. The responses are kept in a database

Check out the Tour de France in Google Earth

You can easily set up gmail to work for all your email accounts. No more logging into different servers or services.

I have been using KeePass for about a year now and love it. The UI is neat and easy. It secures passwords in a very secure file. Fantastic free tool.

Great list of Web2.0 applications. He has some new (to me) suggestions like diggdot.us and gabbr.com.

Here is a fantastic list of Web2.0 applications for enterprise use. Enterprise use really means for professional use – like all of us . I am personally on the search for good on-line storage and project management software.

It’s abook that is available for free as a PDF download. It has 55 interesting things you can do with Google. One chapter is called “Douglas Adams and the Google Calculator” : )

17 free and low-cost services to back up and share files online

The Rise of Digg: Ranked 3rd Most Popular Tech News Site (Up From 8). Digg.com can be a very good traffic drver to Web sites.

Nice article on how to start out a new site and get traffic from SEO, but his site has a lot of reltaed info as well

ComputerWorld anual survey of topp 100 places to work for. Reader’s Digest makes the list at #80 : )

Software to backup DVD discs and can used in conjunction with DVD burning software.

Web 2.0 task list manager (Todo). Very clever name as well

Great howto for del.icio.us users

A tutorial on how to back up DVDs to your hard disk using DVD Shrink

Lots of good SEO tips for WordPress blogs.

Use DD-WRT firmware to upgrade your router