“We’re always looking for ways to innovate the advertising experience, and the more we know about our users — people like you — the better we can deliver ads that are more relevant to you. To achieve this, we’re asking for more information about you. We know these details are personal and that some of you might prefer to keep them private, so the questions are optional. You’re the only one who can see your data, and you can modify or clear your responses at any time. Please see our Privacy Policy for further details.”

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“Thousands of developers are now building applications over the LinkedIn Platform, and we’ve learned quite a bit from them.  Today, I’m thrilled to announce an early access version of new technology that makes developing an application with LinkedIn even easier: our new, easy-to-use Javascript API.” – Linkedin

Visit: Linkedin Instant

“Gilt Groupe provides invitation-only access to highly coveted products and experiences at insider prices. Each day, Gilt offers its members a curated selection of merchandise, including apparel, accessories and lifestyle items across the women’s, men’s and children’s categories.” -- Gilt

If you need an invite -- visit: http://www.gilt.com/invite/dcarmona05

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I’m developing this website which features your bike in the wild – kinda like foodspotting but for cycles. Expect many updates in the future…

“At Cycle Spotting we capture the imagination of your gear in the wild. Cycle Spotting is a San Francisco based company finding and sharing bike recommendations: Instead of reading and writing reviews of bikes, you can share photos of any bike you find and see what’s hip wherever you go.” – Cycle Spotting

I only have 2 Invites Left, Get’em while their hot by visiting: http://new.digg.com/login/b8fb7237fcafe1873a585709abe5277b9

You can find my profile at: http://new.digg.com/norcaltaco

The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers. View font details to get the code needed to embed the font on your web site.

Video Chat Experience -- Take a seat and join one on one interactive video chat sessions with other Wave participants. For more info on this extension, watch their video or visit their website. For others visit @ Google Wave Extensions.

Yellow Highlighter -- If you’re a highlight-happy waver, use this extension to add a one-click highlighter to your toolbar. For others visit @ Google Wave Extensions.

Take-Out Gadget -- Use this for ordering out at the office, apartment, classroom, or event, and figuring out who wants what. The gadget optionally lets the admin set a countdown timer for the order, to make sure everyone submits their order on time. For others visit @ Google Wave Extensions.

Napkin Gadget -- Use this to doodle with your colleagues -- like a virtual whiteboard. For others visit @ Google Wave Extensions.

Phone Conference -- Click to insert a Ribbit Conference gadget to your toolbar. For more info on this extension, watch their video or visit their website. For others visit @ Google Wave Extensions.

Yes/No/Maybe Gadget -- Our simplest and most popular gadget. Use this to ask friends if they want to join you for a party, to get their opinion on a topic, or even to petition their support for a movement. For others visit @ Google Wave Extensions.

Image Gadget -- Lets you insert, resize and annotate any image from the web. For others visit @ Google Wave Extensions.

Likey Gadget -- Use this to give participants a simple way to express their agreement or disagreement with something -- a great way to replace long threads of “+1s”. For others visit @ Google Wave Extensions.

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Google Insights for Search allows you to compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties. Google Insight helps find & target your topic depending on the search volume of that query. Understanding your industry and the history that is packaged with that is key for any professional. But for blogging it’s even more important since trends are updated every hour on the hour. Giving all professions an infinite amount of data to work with at any moment of their career. While many times you can easily become overloaded with the huge inventory of keywords and regional related information. I strongly suggest having a ‘plan’ or at least some goal in mind before actively searching for your post.

Depending where you focus the majority of your professional time is where you will begin researching for your next idea. I focus my post around a wide arrange of industries since I’m all over the board and enjoy a wide arrange of topics. Although I wouldn’t suggest this for a beginning blogger since things can become disorganized and cluttered full of small pieces of useless information which brings no value to the reader.

I’ll be covering the basic history of trends for web developer and designers, while looking into the near future. “And Here We Go…” -- Joker.

2006-2010:

Many trends have happened in the world of design & development between the years of 2006 and 2010. But some are highlighted more than others which would also make them more generic and dense within the blogging community. Here is a sample of the highlighted keywords between designers and developers:

A few things you notice between design and development is obvious -- different terms, percentages, and overall well-establish keywords in the blogging universe. Though many of these keywords are highly ranked between well known sites like: Smashing Magazine, Nettuts+, and Digg. It would be seemly impossible for a beginner SEO/blogger to out-rank sites that have 3+ years on-top of them with better quality & community value. These keywords may seem outer reach to the blog world but they can be optimized within your personal web & print portfolio for potential employment opportunities.

If your a college student or new to the industry I would recommend looking at each one of these keywords and having a rough understanding of that term. Most experienced web designers or developers understand the market & industry and know what to search for.

Use Case for Designers Searching “CSS3” in the last 12 months:

Now remember you can tailor these results into anything of interest. I found out the best way for me to write is when I want to, and how I want to. Within time you’ll wake up in the morning just being inspired by something you heard on the news or something you saw along your morning walk to work. Either way, narrowing or extending your keyword selection is the best way to optimize your post. I used CSS3 for my example above and as you can see there is a helpful list of suggestions.

Included in the list above for Top Searches:
CSS3 Shadow, CSS3 Rounded, Rounded Corners, Rounded Corners CSS3, Firefox CSS3

Use Case for Developers Searching “Javascript, Ajax, and jQuery” in the last 12 Months:

Not only does Google Insights give you access to tons of targeted keywords and regions but they also provide a graph which indexes news related events to that query or multiple queries. This is useful for a number of reasons -- 1). allows a quick preview into the history of those queries 2). shows why a peak (headline) happened using your best judgement 3). gives you a sneak peek of how to write a proper title and content for a similar topic.

Like the example above for designers, developers are given a similar list of keyword’s broken into two categories of Top Searches and Rising Searches. Generally the Top Searches are more generic while Rising Searches is something more of an interest to a beginning writer, blogger, or SEO professional. Using the ‘low hanging fruit’ keywords will help you gather more traffic where sites won’t focus their attention as much. Since 6 thou 10 of Rising Searches (low hanging fruit) may still seem generic to an experienced SEO professional, but with a little research and tailoring you can take a generic keyword and write valuable content around that subject which is relevant to the reader.

Included in the list above for 6 thou 10 of Rising Searches:
Javascript Examples, Adobe Flash Player, W3Schools Javascript, W3Schools, Slideshow Javascript

I hope this helps you along your way, I realize this isn’t a full overview of Google Insights product but just a few tips to help web developers and designers. Take low hanging fruit w/ trend related data in order to out-rank some of those noobs. Wishing you the best of luck on your blogging adventures.

Tracy Chan -- Product Manager @ Youtube gives Insight Demo:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo6HBKTyIzQ

Microsoft announced today that Internet Explorer 9 is almost halfway finished and it will support HTML5. Although Microsoft hasn’t announced the release date which was to be expected. Microsoft published a blog post yesterday asking for feedback within it’s beta ‘platform preview’ which has been released to developers & designers.

Microsoft says:

Internet Explorer Platform Preview is not a full web browser. It’s intended to give Web developers an early look at the Web platform technology coming in the next release of Internet Explorer. To distinguish it from a full browser, we call it a platform preview.

HTML 5 Demos

Border Radius – This demo illustrates the CSS3 border-radius property in conjunction with border-width and border-style.

CSS3 – CSS3 Selectors provides new, more powerful ways to select nodes using CSS. This helps when styling complex documents or making CSS that can apply to a document as its structure changes.

DOM Events – DOM Events provides an interoperable eventing mechanism.

DOM Style – DOM Style enables reading and interacting with all the style information for a document.

HTML5 T-Shirt Designer – This demo shows a cross-section of features in Internet Explorer 9, including XHTML, that make our platform more standards-compliant and interoperable.

Download Here @: Microsoft – Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft announces Internet Explorer 9

1). Right-side chat – Move the chat box to the right side of the inbox. Find more @ Gmail Labs

2). Google Calendar gadget – Adds a box in the left column which shows your Google Calendar. See upcoming events, locations, and details. Find more @ Gmail Labs

3). Google Voice player in mail – Lets you play voicemails left on your Google Voice account right from the email notification. Find more @ Gmail Labs

4). Google Docs previews in mail – Shows previews of documents, spreadsheets and presentations directly in the email when you receive any link to a Google Doc. Also gives an option to open directly in Google Docs. Find more @ Gmail Labs

5). Superstars - Adds additional star icons. After enabling this feature: (1) Go to the “General” Settings page to choose which superstars you wish to use. (2) Use either the keyboard shortcut (‘s’) or click to rotate through your selected superstars. (3) Use the search operator “has:” to find all messages with your superstar (e.g. “has:red-bang”, “has:blue-star”). Learn the name of a superstar by hovering over its image in the “General” Settings page. Find more @ Gmail Labs

6). Message translation – Uses Google Translate to translate messages you receive in other languages. Find more @ Gmail Labs

7). Sender Time Zone – Should I reply to this mail or just call the guy? Ooops… it’s 1 am. Sorry, I didn’t mean to disturb… Find more @ Gmail Labs

8). Canned Responses – Email for the truly lazy. Save and then send your common messages using a button next to the compose form. Also automatically send emails using filters. Find more @ Gmail Labs

9). Navbar drag and drop – Allows you to reorder the items in your navbar using drag and drop. Find more @ Gmail Labs

10). Authentication icon for verified senders – Displays a key icon next to authenticated messages from certain senders that spammers attempt to fake. Currently works for mail from PayPal and eBay only. Find more @ Gmail Labs

YouTube engineers and developers test out recipes and concoctions that aren’t quite fully baked and invite you to tell them how they’re coming along.

1). Insights for Audience – Discover what different audiences like doing on YouTube. Find more @: YouTube TestTube

2). Warp - Visually browse YouTube videos in the Fullscreen player. Find more @: YouTube TestTube

3). HTML5 Video – Try an experimental version of the YouTube HTML5 video player. Find more @: YouTube TestTube

4). Comment Search – Discover videos by searching video comments. Find more @: YouTube TestTube

5). Feather - View YouTube videos on a super-low latency page. Find more @: YouTube TestTube

1). Attach Google Docs – Attach a Google Docs word processing document, spreadsheet or presentation to your event. You must share each attached document. Find More @: Google Calendar

2). Gentle Reminders – Do you like pop-up reminders but hate how they rudely interrupt whatever you’re doing? This feature will prevent reminders from bringing Calendar to the front. Instead, the title of the Google Calendar window or tab will happily blink in the background. Find More @: Google Calendar

3). Event Flair – Bring life to your calendar and organize your events with icons for things like flights, vacations, parties and meals. Note: icons added to events you organized will be visible to all attendees. After you enable this feature, click on an event and look for the “Calendar flair” gadget to activate. Find More @: Google Calendar

4). Next Meeting – See what’s coming up next in your calendar. Find More @: Google Calendar

5). World Clock – Keep track of the time around the world. Plus: when you click an event, you’ll see the start time in each time zone as well. Find More @: Google Calendar