Generatrix

I wrote the first version of Gmail in one day. It was not very impressive. All I did was stuff my own email into the Google Groups (Usenet) indexing engine. I sent it out to a few people for feedback, and they said that it was somewhat useful, but it would be better if it searched over their email instead of mine. That was version two. After I released that people started wanting the ability to respond to email as well. That was version three. That process went on for a couple of years inside of Google before we released to the world.

So they are finally at it.

Google is integrating data from Analytics into Adsense and Adwords. Now they know exactly how much ROI you get on ads placed on which networks. This also means they now now how to optimize it.

But for whom?

“In order to improve your experience with Google products, Google Analytics is updating its data sharing policy. You now have the ability to share your Analytics data with other Google services. This will improve integration, enable additional features in Google’s advertising services (including Google Analytics, AdWords and AdSense) and improve your experience with these products.

Press “Accept” to enable data sharing between Google Analytics and other Google services or for additional options, choose “More data sharing options”.

Kentbrewster has put a series of interesting posts about how to find out if a user on your website has logged into Facebook, Twitter or Google.

Basically, he searches the code to find some specific javascript code, which is loaded only if the user is signed in to the service. Once he finds what he is looking for, he opens the page using a SCRIPT tag. Depending on the availability of the javascript he can determine if the user is signed in or not.

Why is this important?

Because its like releasing an API without knowing about it. You really don’t want people to find out what your users are doing. Do you?

You can find the posts on Facebook, Google and Twitter on his blog.