Google has announced the availability of a tool for webmasters, allowing sites which lack social features to add commenting, profiles, and more.

The widget suite is called Friend Connect. The video at the Official Google Blog demonstrates signing up to sites with AOL, OpenID, Google and Yahoo accounts, commenting, making contacts, and rating and reviewing content. The video’s narrator promises Google will add new features regularly.

The widgets are based on Google’s OpenSocial mash-up system. Search Engine Land recently republished a FaberNovel slide show that suggested OpenSocial was an attempt to reign-in Facebook’s social networking dominance.

Unlike typical web 2.0 widgets, the features are added by both copying Javascript into a site’s template, and uploading files to the web server via FTP, according to the Friend Connect setup overview.

I just noticed recently that my adsense earnings keep dropping even do traffic of my sites is increasing and click also increase.
Does our earnings or online ads business affected by the global crisis we are experiencing right now?
Does the crisis affect Online Business?
What are you thoughts? And your strategy or plan to maintain your current online business.

Here are some quotes for the Forbes article
“The days of Google’s blockbuster advertising business being shielded from the economic winds of change are probably coming to an end. “After starting the year with Google in both January and April stating that it wasn’t feeling any macro effects, the picture has clearly changed. The question is, To what degree?” Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuth wrote in a research note.

Google is also famous for not providing financial guidance, but Anmuth said this could change as well. “We think investors need more clarity during this less certain period,” he wrote.

In addition to the economy, Anmuth said, Google is becoming a mature company and sees a slowdown in growth. “Google’s growth over the last few years has been helped by toolbar distribution deals, affiliate partnerships and new advertiser dollars moving over to search, especially from traditional retailers,” he wrote. “With fewer partnerships and overall query growth moderating, Google is seeing a more natural slowdown in its business.”

The rest can be read here http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/14/eba…rss_popstories

Google Chrome, the new revolution in web browser is the talk of the town every where within hardly a week of its launch. Google Chrome has got all the attention it wanted with its hard to miss new features. Otherwise Google Chrome can be termed as a mixture of the browsers, Opera and Firefox. On the looks part it resembles Opera and with the keyboard shortcuts and other features it works very similar to Firefox.

We could also compare Google Chrome with the other browsers. The thumbnails option in Google Chrome is similar to that of Opera which was released in its latest release. The opening of tabs and other features like opening and closing of each tabs resemble very much to that of Opera.

The most important feature which Google Chrome has is that its crash control mechanism. Wherein if any one of the website in a tab is actually trying to crash the entire browser to close, it does not close or crash the entire browser, instead only that particular tab is closed while you can continue browsing along the other tabs as usual. You can also get the individual tabs into a separate window by just dragging it out of it to create.

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