One more time, I get back to you with Google services news or feedback, this time it is Gmail turn. Gmail’s filters are a simple way to organize your messages automatically by providing a set of rules. Like most email clients, Gmail applies the rules to the messages you receive and to the sent mail.

Here are some of the most common Gmail filters:

1. Categorization filters
If you receive a lot of messages that need a distinctive category, create a filter that attaches them a label and archives them.

To separate your messages, you could share a different version of your email address that adds some information after the plus sign. So you could put this email address in your blog: daniel+blog@gmail.com, instead of daniel@gmail.com. All the messages are sent to your address, but now you can create a filter that labels the messages sent to daniel+blog@gmail.com.

2. Search filters
You can create filters for frequent queries. Just type in the “has the words” box your query (this list of Gmail operators should help):

has:attachment - messages that include attachments
filename:.mp3 - messages that include MP3 attachments
is:unread - collects all the messages you haven’t read yet (or you marked as unread)
label:voicemail - the voicemail from Google Talk

3. Separate your identities
If you forward messages from other mail accounts or use Gmail’s mail fetcher, create filters that attach labels to these messages. Just enter the appropriate mail address in the To field when you create each filter.

4. Newsletters
Newsletters save you time and bring (sometimes) useful information, but they also clutter your inbox. If you receive daily newsletters, create filters that label the messages and archive them, so they don’t stand in your way.

5. Blacklists
If you don’t want to read messages from a bunch of people, create a filter that sends to trash each and every message received from them. Just enter their email addresses separated by OR in the From field. I made a small script that makes it easy to build a blacklist.

6. Anti-spam
Gmail’s spam filters are pretty good for most people, but that doesn’t mean you won’t see false positives. If most of the spam mail that reaches your inbox has some easy to identify traits (for example, it contains “lottery”), create a filter that sends these messages to the trash. Because you won’t mark these messages as spam, you won’t be improving Gmail’s spam filters. Also you may lose some genuine messages if you don’t build your filter carefully.

7. No more spam counters
If you don’t like to see how many unread spam messages you have, create a filter that moves all spam mail to the trash.

Type in “Has the words”: is:spam
Check Delete it
Click OK to Gmail’s warning

You should check the messages from the trash from time to time because you may lose important messages incorrectly classified as spam by Gmail.

8. Backup filters
Create a filter that forwards some of your messages to other account. You could send all the messages that include attachments, so you could easily delete them when you reach Gmail’s storage limit.

This Greasemonkey script (that requires Greasemonkey and Firefox) lets you create filters from each message by filling the email address of the sender and the destination address.

 Thanks for Google OS for their updated reviews.

The game is not over yet, Google continues on scoring in their competitors goal, taking over the world by buying up anything that has a remote chance of getting big. The latest purchase added to the growing list of Google acquisitions is FeedBurner. These are the guys that handle a lot of sites RSS feed. They also run the FeedBurner Ad Network (FAN) that can generate cash for some of blog owners.

Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google for around $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront, although the founders will be locked in for a couple of years.

FeedBurner was founded in 2003 and funded with $10 million of capital in two rounds. Google will be paying $100 million cash for the company. $10 million into $100 million in four years? That’s a pretty good ROI!

Who is next? Is it going to be me or one of my projects? Sometimes, Google let you dream while you are awake.

As we know Mr. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, it started as a private social networking site and now it is already open to the public. The company was founded after that Harvard University dropped out and Mr. Zuckerberg established the company.

Today, Facebook Inc. has bucked the Silicon Valley acquisition trend, remaining independent of larger technology companies. Now the social-networking start-up is seeking ways to reach the big leagues on its own. Yahoo was interested last year in buying Facebook for close to $1 billion, but people familiar with the matter say the talks cooled months ago partly because Mr. Zuckerberg and Facebook’s investors thought the company was worth more, and partly because Mr. Zuckerberg wanted to keep management control.

Facebook management is trying to be like other available web platforms such as You Tube, Google, Myspace and Web Boom … especially wit their new platform which will give access to third party people to develop new modules that can be integrated to their, and be used.

“How the company make money?”

The company makes profit from some little different sources, such as the advertisements that are made for Microsoft Corp. a deal for like $30 billion USD per year, till 2011. Also we know that they launched their $1 gifts system which gives access to its members to send gifts for other friends. Earlier this month they launched the marketplace service, which is a classifieds system for users to advertise their things, this is for free till now, but it could have been paid and be another income source for the company. Previously some companies have had pages within Facebook, but they didn’t interact with the Web site’s user networks. This move is significant because it could turn Facebook into a central hub for Web users, akin to an Internet portal like Yahoo Inc. Rather than using Facebook only to keep in touch with friends and going elsewhere for other content, users could now gain access to that content inside Facebook. That could keep people on Facebook for longer periods of time, which would also appeal to advertisers. For instance, an online retailer could build a service in Facebook to let people recommend music or books to their friends, based on the relationships they’ve already established on the site. Or a media company could let groups of users share news articles with each other on a page inside Facebook.

The 23-year-old Mr. Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook in 2004, and Facebook’s venture-capital investors, which include Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, now believe it is unlikely they will sell the company, says one person familiar with the matter. Instead, they hope to keep Facebook private for as long as possible, eventually going public in about two years, this person says.

Facebook, which has raised more than $38 million in funding, is profitable and expects to generate close to $150 million in revenue this year, says one person familiar with the matter. Facebook says its user base has more than doubled to 23 million in the past six months, and it is adding 100,000 new users a day.

Mr. Zuckerberg in the past has acknowledged he has greater ambitions for Facebook. He has bristled at Facebook’s “social networking” tag, instead calling the site a “social utility” that helps people share information, with their personal connections with each other as a backdrop. If others build services to take advantage of those connections, Facebook can become more useful for its users, he said in the March interview.

But Facebook faces challenges in trying to stay independent. Mr. Zuckerberg has little management experience, for instance, and is now managing some lieutenants who are Silicon Valley veterans twice his age. His main focus is on building interesting technology, say people familiar with the matter. A Facebook spokeswoman declined to comment on those characterizations.

There’s also stiff competition. News Corp.’s MySpace is still the leader in social networking, with 57 million U.S. visitors in April, compared with Facebook’s 14.4 million, even though Facebook has grown three times as fast as MySpace in the past year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. And a handful of other companies are also riffing off the idea of using social-networking technology to build a broader platform, such as Ning Inc., co-founded by Netscape Communications Corp. founder Marc Andreessen. Ning lets groups build their own social networks.

Some Silicon Valley cognoscenti have compared Facebook to Google. Google faced similar challenges in the late 1990s, when its young, scrappy founders dealt with skepticism over their lack of experience, lateness to the search arena, and focus on technology over revenue. So Mr. Zuckerberg’s moves are being closely watched as a barometer of whether a new generation of Web companies can remain independent yet grow very large.

Mr. Zuckerberg himself has compared Facebook to Google. Asked in March whether Facebook has an analog to Google’s motto of “don’t be evil,” Mr. Zuckerberg said, “I don’t know that we have a motto yet. Maybe it’s, ‘Make the world more open.’ “

Well, I went offline again. Sorry for not being able to get stable and have new posts on my blog every day as I promised you. But I believe that you will pardon me one day when you know why all that, I can give you hints for now, personal, country situation, moving to another country, clients deadlines, and new projects to come soon online not seen before.

“As now I am back, let me tell you that I changed look for this summer, looks like Al Pacino maybe.”

Well lets go over some news happened over the net lately:

Starting with Google and their acquisition, they got Double click for a 3.6 billion USD deal, as well as Mr. Eric Schmidt the Googlywood Star announced that Google buy every week or an average of 3 days a new established company with their employees, and than at the beginning of this week we can hear that Google is about to buy Feed Burner for 100 million USD which is another big number, and so a lot to come as we believe Google made out a trend lately in acquisitions.

“A Trend?!?!? Yes a Trend when we hear that Yahoo & Microsoft are doing the same today.”

Yahoo offering a 1 billion USD to buy Facebook, but Mr. Mark Zuckerberg replied with this: “Sorry we are worth more than this” well for 23 years old CEO that’s something astonishing no? It seems he got more plans to go for with this project, or he is trying to get Google for a better price. But I believe this is not good at all for Yahoo as they lost their web presence and they are going down more than before like that.

What about the losers Microsoft? Oh they are offering a 6 billion USD to buy one of the biggest advertising companies, one of the biggest in their history, well Mr. Gate or you doing some copy paste from Googlywood Star or what? They made that trend and you will never know how to play their game as no one before could play your BLUE SCREEN windows game. We cannot forget the 50 billion USD offer to buy Yahoo! That would make a big smile on some people like Larry Page, Sergey Bin & Eric Schmidt at least, as they will have two competitors falling down at the same time. Vista sold out 40 million copies and got a record over XP that’s what Mr. Gate told us, sorry I cannot believe it after hearing that DELL and other notebooks manufacturer are giving back XP original copies in place of Vista, which means VISTA was just a lie by Microsoft and it will burn the company alive.

I am not a Google fan; just I am stating some truth about losers who are trying to get a ticket in tomorrow’s train. If you don’t believe me just go over my previous posts and you will know what I am talking about.

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Living Gallery website design, development and SEO.
Seven Design Gallery website design & development.
Rahayel Laser Dental Spa website design, development, blog & SEO.
Photography website not seen like before.
Electrobins Marketing & Sales (will write a full review for this product soon).

“If you are a regular reader of my blog, so you know well about this series about The Giant Google, and if you are new all you have to do is to read the previous parts in this series, than come back to this post and read this new part.”

Well I decided to stop the numbering thing for every part, because with all what is going over with Google numbers wont be enough to list how many parts this series will go on, as I believe as much as I am writing on this blog and being and internet freak, I will always follow up on Google news and write about them, so the numbers will be replaced by the post topic.

Google ended 2006 with the acquisition of YouTube for 1.65 billion $, 10,600 employees. Where they did start the first quarter of 2007 with the acquisition of Double Click for 3.1 billion, and 12,000 employees.
Google Inc. declared on Thursday that their profit for the first quarter rose up to 63% from the past year. These results did beat all Wall Street expectations as the company turned search market share gains into even more revenue from its core paid search advertising business.

As for CEO Eric Schmidt, their core business is very strong, and that’s what is driving their big success, but still other products are doing well such as YouTube and others. Also this growth is giving them the ability to take risks into new markets and products.

Back to the first quarter reports, Net Income for the first quarter was $1 billion, or $3.18 a share, up from $592 million, or $1.95 a share, a year ago. Excluding one-time items such as employee stock-based compensation, income was $3.68 a share, higher than analyst expectations of $3.30 a share, according to a poll by Thomson Financial.

Total revenue reached a new high of $3.66 billion, up 63 percent from $2.25 billion a year earlier. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, or commission paid to content partners, revenue was $2.53 billion. On that basis, analysts were expecting revenue of $2.49 billion. Google paid $1.13 billion, or 31 percent of advertising revenues, in commission to partners.

Paid search represents nearly all of Google’s revenue at this point. However, if its planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick goes through, it will have a huge display, or banner ad, business, too. The company is aggressively expanding its advertising platform to the offline world, including partnerships to sell ads to run on Clear Channel radio stations, on EchoStar Dish satellite TV network and in newspapers.
Google does not provide forward guidance, but Schmidt did warn that the second quarter is typically weaker than the first quarter.

The company also announced that Schmidt had been elected to be chairman of the board of directors and Stanford University President John Hennessy was elected lead independent director.

“That’s what Google did in the first quarter, talking about competitors? Ok Yahoo failed with its Panama project and they did below the expectations, that’s enough I think.”

For the first time ever, passengers will be able to use their own mobile phones during flights.

Air France will start a six-month trial for passengers to use their mobile phones to make calls and send emails and text messages during flights from July this year.

The company was a bout to launch the in-flight mobile service last month but has been forced to delay it until the summer due to regulatory certification for the on-board equipment taking longer than expected.
The service will only be installed on one of the smallest planes in the company fleet, the A318 Airbus short-haul aircraft -.

For the first three months passengers will only be able to use the connectivity for data services, such as text messaging or sending emails from a BlackBerry or other device. For the last half of the trial passengers will also be able to use the voice service. This will be the first time anywhere in the world airline passengers will be allowed to make phone calls from their own mobile during a flight.

We believe that in flight phone calls will be annoying for some passengers but Air France said it is aware of the potential annoyance of in-flight mobile phone conversations and so, at the end of each flight during the trial, passengers will be given a questionnaire for feedback on the service.

An Air France spokeswoman told silicon.com: “After six months we will make our decision for the entire fleet.”

Yesterday, I had to give a conference about how to plan & organize an event at the Notre Dame University (NDU). That was my second conference in my life but the first one I felt more comfortable and relaxed. I started my presentation a bit distracted but then it worked well.
The presentation length was 30 minutes including the question period. Today I would like to share it with you, and soon will have the DVD posted as well. As usual I always like to share everything with you my readers.

The presentation content points were the following:

Index

• PRE-PLAN
• PLAN
• ORGANISATION
• TIPS

Pre-Plan

• What’s Your Situation?
• Setting Goals.
• Type of Events
• Set your Budget
• Sponsors List.
• Spreading the Word!

What’s Your Situation
Every campaigner is in a unique position. Your country situation, religion, culture, social and economic circumstances, aspirations and interests will determine your approach. Recognizing your situation may help you decide on the best actions to take.
Ask yourself:
Do you live in a country that has been affected by war? Do you live in a country affected by landmines? What actions are appropriate to take in your community?
Setting Goals
When planning an event it is important to define your goal. Why do you want to hold an event? What is the purpose of your event? Establishing a specific goal in the beginning stages of your planning will ensure a more focused and successful event. Also, discuss who you want to target with your event. Choosing your target audience can help narrow your mission and goal.
Spreading the Word
What is the purpose of organizing campaign events and activities? Are you hoping to raise awareness and encourage people to support children cancer? Events need to be publicized to draw an audience that can get informed and act! Using the media is crucial to spreading your message, as are developing and using your own publicity tools.
 

PLAN

• Fix the Date & Venue
• Promoting and Recruiting for Your Event
• Tickets
• Event Time Line

Fix the Date & Venue
Your event Date can affect your event success in many ways.

After pre-planning your event and defining the type of event and people attending your event, it is easier for you to choose the right Venue which will support the estimated number of attendees. When the Venue is chosen, so is the decoration theme gets ready with the sound and light people.
Promoting and Recruit

It’s time to get the word out!
Every event should be promoted in its best way, based on your goals and mission.
Here are some ways to publicize your event:

• Prints
• Radio
• TV
• Online

The key to a successful large event is getting others involved.

Recruit volunteers who knows how to apply their jobs in the event, and than split them into groups with leaders.
 
Tickets

Your tickets have to be priced, depending on your event type and audience type.

Free invitations should be given.

Point of sales.

Refund policy.

Time Line
Your event time line should be planned and prepared before the event. Have the right speaker, artist or DJ available on time.

You have to choose the best timing for each part of your event, fire breathers, fire showers, dancers, etc…

ORGANIZATION

After pre-planning and planning the event well, it will become easier for you when it comes to the day of the event.

Everything is prepared, the implementation will just start under your supervision and team. The venue decoration, sound & lights installation, etc…

Doors system should be prepared and non-negotiable for any changes.

Final tests/rehearsals for the sound & light before the time of the event.

On site meeting for all the working crew, to check out that everybody is there and ready to fill out his place, so no surprises at the end.

Doors open to the public, and expect anything that might come out the last second.

TIPS

Follow up after your event, and evaluate. Remember in every big event there is mistakes to learn from.

Ask your self and your group members, what went wrong after the event.

Get people feedbacks during and after the event.

Chose the right person to be on site decision maker if you cannot be.

It’s been like 20 days I didn’t have any new article on this blog, well the reason I was in travel and I had lot of things to do between work and leisure stuff. I am preparing a full article about my trip which will be posted soon, but meanwhile I found this article from Outer Court interesting to share with you my readers.

MAY 12, 2017 - BUSINESSWIRE. Mountain View-based search giant Google Inc today announced they’ve acquired the internet for the astounding sum of $2,455.5 billion in cash. The deal had been rumored in various search blogs since the beginning of the year and was now confirmed by the company’s CEO. “This is in line with our vision to make information more accessible to end users,” says Eric Schmidt. “With the acquisition, we can increase the speed of indexing as everything will already be on our servers by the time it’s published.”

In a conference call earlier today, Larry Page explained the strategy behind the acquisition. “We realized it’s not very cost-effective to buy the internet in smaller portions.” During the past two decades, Google had acquired YouTube for $1.65, DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, AOL for $12.5 billion, and last year, Microsoft for the record sum of $120 billion.

Questioned on the first steps the company would take integrating the internet onto their servers, Eric Schmidt announced immediate plans to redirect Yahoo.com to Google’s own search engine. “From an end user perspective, having two search engines is just bad usability, and [causes confusion]. While we appreciate Yahoo’s recent advances in search technology, we felt this move is best aligned with the interests of our advertisers, users and shareholders.” Eric added, “By leveraging third-generation mobile platforms in sustainable verticals, new monetization opportunities can manifest into an improved web experience, greatly benefiting investors and digerati alike – a true paradigm change synergizing the Web 6.0 framework on the enterprise level.”

Accompanying Google’s acquisition revelation, privacy groups today released a paper criticizing the move. However, Larry Page argues that privacy is improved by Google’s acquisition, explaining that “[the] main privacy issues for users today are data leaks to third parties. By eliminating all third parties, we closed this hole.” Eric Schmidt adds that Google intends to replace their current privacy policy with a “privacy scale” which better balances necessary compromises. “When you can improve the privacy of a large group of people by violating the privacy rights of a small number of people, in the end this improves overall privacy.”

The Chinese government in the meantime congratulated Google Inc on their move. Regarding the potentials of expanded censorship, Sergey Brin told members of the press that Google would now drop all search results filtering and instead “address the root problem from a publisher perspective” by directly blocking certain keywords the time they are entered in Google-owned tools such as Blogger, Gmail, Page Creator, Yahoo 360 and MSN Spaces. Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders were not available for comment at this time due to temporary technical problems with their web-based email clients.

The latest statistics from 2006 showed that Web2.0 is being broadly and rapidly brought into enterprises. One of six prominent Web 2.0 tools - blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, and content tagging - were adopted at least by 89% of the CIOs and a remarkable 35% said they were already using all six of the tools.

Tomorrow, McKinsey will release the results of a broader survey of Web 2.0 adoption, and the results are quite different. In January 2007, McKinsey surveyed some 2,800 executives - not just CIOs - from around the world. It found strong interest in many Web 2.0 technologies but much less widespread adoption. McKinsey also looked at six tools. While it didn’t include tagging, it did include mashups; the other five were the same. It found that social networking was actually the most popular tool, with 19% of companies having invested in it, followed by podcasts (17%), blogs (16%), RSS (14%), wikis (13%), and mashups (4%). When you add in companies planning to invest in the tools, the percentages are as follows: social networking (37%), RSS (35%), podcasts (35%), wikis (33%), blogs (32%), and mashups (21%).

Web 2.0 didn’t get through North American companies faster than companies in other countries, according to McKinsey. Investments in blogs and RSS by North American firms were more than investments in social networks and wikis, in the contrary of other countries. Perhaps the most surprising finding coming out of the McKinsey survey was that American companies are not poised to be the leaders in embracing Web 2.0 in coming years. If anything, they’re looking like laggards. Leading the way are Indian firms, 80% of which plan to increase their investments in Web 2.0 over the next three years, compared with 69% of Asia-Pacific firms, 65% of European firms, 64% of Chinese firms, 64% of North American firms, and 62% of Latin American firms.

In another sign of what the future holds for Web 2.0 in business, the Forrester survey found a clear preference among CIOs for buying a full suite of Web 2.0 tools from a large, established vendor. 74% of CIOs said they’d be more interested in investing in Web 2.0 if all the tools were offered as a suite, and 71% said they’d prefer the tools to be “offered by a major incumbent vendor like Microsoft or IBM [rather than] smaller specialist firms like Socialtext, NewsGator, MindTouch, and others.” Web 2.0 startups hoping to make inroads in the enterprise market, even among mid-sized firms, will continue to face big challenges, particularly as the larger vendors release their own suites of tools or incorporate them into existing products. You can bypass the CIO on a small scale, but it’s difficult to bypass the CIO when it comes time for a company to standardize on a particular product and vendor.

As you know that’s my third post about this special Giant, who is growing up more day after the other. Google is our Mother Search Engine (MSE), and as today is the Mothers Day, I would like to benefit from the occasion and greet our MSE.

In this part of my continuous series about Google, I would like to provide information about some news of services and products available at Google, which are Gmail, Themes, Affiliate & Google mobile phone.

GMAIL

Here is a small review how you can master it in 10min. check out this screencast which I learned a few things from it and I am guessing you will try.

THEMES

Google now offer you a new option for personalized home pages. Now you can choose your page theme. Right now there are only a handful of options; hopefully Google will allow others to create their own themes. This is the first time that I recall that Google is departing from its white background and very simple interface to more colors interface. Talking about themes I can advice you to choose the sweet dreams theme which changes based on your time zone.

AFFILIATE

Ok as I always say with Google, what’s next? Well here is a new advertising medium that the Giant is proudly to announce the Affiliates network or Auctions bid network, this program is in BETA test for US clients only for now, soon when it is more clear about will have a special post about it, so as always you want to know more all you have to do is just keep on visiting my blog or be one of my RSS feeds readers.

MOBILE

I had a special post for Google Mobile Phone, so I won’t re-write it one more time, just click the link below to go there and read it. But still that’s a rumor as far as I know.
Also Google reported that they wont have a phone made by them but mobile software because it will change their business identity.

VIP of the WEB

What I never mentioned in the introduction is that Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and 2 co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were recently ranked the #1 most important person on the web by PC World magazine.  I found this interview on the web with Eric Schmidt, in which talk about Google future plans.

One more time, we cannot be done with such a Giant in one article, because of one reason, they got something new every day, so lets end this post with a Happy Mother Day for all the mothers in the World, and see you next in the 4th edition about the Giant.