Americans embarrassed by poor spelling performance compared to Britons

Americans are worse at spelling than Britons, with more than half unable to spell "embarrassed", "liaison" and "millennium". Sixty-two per cent of Americans got 'embarrassed' wrong, against 54 per cent of Britons who struggled with the word in a survey last year Photo: GETTY Despite the popularity of school spelling bee competitions, adults in the US fared [...]
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4 Helpful Firefox Add-Ons for AdSense Publishers

Could These Features Make Their Way to Chrome? Google has highlighted a few Firefox add-ons that could be of great use to AdSense publishers. These include: - Colorzilla - MeasureIt - IE View - WebDeveloper Toolbar "Do you regularly work with your webpages and AdSense implementation, tinkering with HTML or PHP and creating images and code on the fly?" asks Laura [...]
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Did Bill Gates Really Release Mosquitoes on a Crowd?

I'm still trying to make out whether this is an elaborate hoax or if Bill Gates has finally lost his mind, but numerous reports and tweets (including one from Evan Williams himself) indicate that he has just unleashed a bunch of mosquitoes on the crowd at the TED conference, saying something along the lines of "No [...]
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Google Looks At Itself Through Your Eyes

What captures a user's attention on their screen can play a large part in whether or not they click through to a search engine result. Naturally, that makes finding out where eyeballs go on a SERP vital to their overall search experience, and hence, vital to Google's strategy. Google of course obtains this knowledge through extensive [...]
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Got Better Images Than Google?

Google has introduced an imagery partner program where people can submit imagery for Google Earth if they feel they have a better version of a shot that Google currently has. "When people think about Google Earth, they often think satellite imagery. Yet, since the early days of Google Earth, we've been working with local governments and [...]
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Talking Social Advertising with StumbleUpon

Interview with StumbleUpon's VP of Business Development I fired some questions at StumbleUpon's VP of Business Development, John Bryan. We talked about StumbleUpon advertising, the future of social advertising and more. I even tried to get him to spill a few beans about eBay's interest in selling StumbleUpon. Here it goes. Chris Crum: What is the benefit [...]
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Using Advanced Segments in Google Analytics

Tools for Finding Success Online I had a chat with E-Nor President Feras Alhlou after reading a guest post of his on the Official Google Analytics Blog. He was asked by Google to make a post, as E-Nor is a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant and is very active on a number of Google Analytics (GA) support [...]
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Chrome Should Get Extensions By End Of May

How-to session planned for official Google developer conference It's a rare - or perhaps even nonexistent - person who hates Google Chrome. The general consensus is just that the browser lacks a little fit and finish compared to Firefox and Internet Explorer. So it's rather interesting to hear that Chrome's one other problem - a lack [...]
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Open Multiple Inboxes in Gmail

New Experiment in Gmail Labs Google has released a new experiment feature in Gmail Labs that lets users activate multiple views within their inboxes. Fittingly, this feature is called "Multiple Inboxes." In case you're having a hard time visualizing it, software Engineer Octavian Costache on the Gmail Blog shares the following image: "In addition to a quick [...]
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Don't Get Too Attached To Editing Wikipedia

It's about to get harder to edit a Wikipedia entry. That is unless those who oppose the concept can come up with a better idea. Who among us hasn't encountered some false information on the site at one time or another. The goal here is to make Wikipedia, which is one of the most popular sites [...]
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