Just like everybody else I was wondering about the upcoming wordpress version. I had no time to have a look at the new features being busy with work.

Now i think i have come to know the major ones from this post: What’s New in WordPress 2.0? · Asymptomatic

Well, with Ajay’s demo blog, i think i can learn to handle it before i actually setup my 2.0 blogs or update current ones.

Finally I can spread firefox and earn $1 everytime someone installs it by clicking on the buttons of my websites.
Been waiting for it since google has launched adsense referral system.

Here is the post from official google adsense blog:

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We’re happy to announce that international AdSense publishers can now refer users to Firefox plus Google Toolbar. A Firefox sub-tab will be visible to all publishers when they visit the “Referrals” tab in their AdSense account. For all the details on Firefox referrals, visit our FAQ.

Posted by Mohammed – AdSense Product Marketing
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Hurray!!

Weblog Tools Collection » Get Ready

Thanks Mark, I’ve been waiting for 3 months now.
I think I have 8 blogs to go live with wordpress 2.0
and will love to update my current blogs for those cool features with 2.0

i’m waiting..

“Google has started to open up it’s Analytics service once again. As of right now, there are 236,780 accounts — up 2055 from when they stopped accepting sign-ups. I think they are probably sending out invitations to the people who put their name on the list.”

read more….

Google Analytics: Service Announcement
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Hello Google Analytics User,

This is a quick update to address some issues you may be seeing
in your Google Analytics account and what we’re doing to respond.

First, due to extremely high demand, we’ve temporarily limited
the number of new signups as we increase capacity. This allows
us to focus on our primary objective–to provide a great user
experience for our existing users.

Next, here is current information on the most common questions
we’re receiving:

1. The ‘Check Status’ button is being reworked to check for
properly installed tracking code. This should be fixed by the
end of November.

2. The ‘+Add Profile’ link has been temporarily removed until
we increase capacity. We’ll alert all current users when the
feature is restored.

3. While we increase capacity, you may see longer than normal
delays in data showing up in your reports. All data continues
to be collected and no data has been lost.

For additional help with your Google Analytics account, we
encourage you to browse or search our online Help Center at

http://www.google.com/support/analytics?hl=en.

Thanks for your patience as we improve Google Analytics and add
resources to ensure a high-quality service.

Sincerely,

The Google Analytics Team
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well, I am happy that all my channels in the analytics are working and I also gave few reports today to some clients. The Max channels(sites) they allow now is 50. I hope it will be increased to 200 some time in future as they did for adsense channels.

Gary Price outlines a new Google service, spotted by Greg Yardley, called Click-To-Call. The service connects buyers and sellers via phone.

Gary, has updated some screenshots, have a look: Click-to-Call

Check it out!
Well, ajay was waiting for a long time for that and he reached it now.

As he settles with that position, I am sure it will take lot of effort for any site to cross it because in this case site popularity factor matters.

Well, Congratulations Ajay! I hope you wont let anyone take your position.

“Google Analytics has experienced extremely strong demand, and as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your name and email address and we will notify you as soon as we are ready to add new accounts.”

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Skype’s biggest problem isn’t about being popular, it’s being popular with the wrong crowd. According to specialists, the VoIP software is used on a large scale by terrorists organizing their next hits.

Security agencies try to figure out terrorists’ communications and it seems that one of the most successful tools is Skype because it gives the users anonymity. Bear in mind Skype is the most popular VoIP tool around the world with over 100 million users.

Although experts have the knowledge to intercept conversations supported by VoIP, many areas around the globe which are considered dangerous and with high terrorism activity don’t have the technology necessary to intervene. Even the United States have a hard time tracking VoIP in real time even though they have the latest available technology. VoIP works very similar to the way email does, the information is broken into bits and transferred through the least busy route over the Internet.

Corporations aren’t too pleased with Skype either, considering approximately 17 million registered Skype users are using the service for business purposes. The fact that Skype can be used by hackers to penetrate the network is the main reason for business owners to put Skype on the black list of software, right next to peer-to-peer and instant messaging.

Last year only, the number of users that access search engines to track down information has increased so much that now online search is established as the second most used online service. The first and definitely undisputed most used online service remains email.

These statistics were provided in surveys published by Pew Internet and American Life Project. According to them, on any given autumn day this year, 63 percent of the American users accessed a search engine, compared with 56 percent in June 2004.

Until recently, the battle for the second place in this top preferences chart was fought by news services and search engines, but the huge amount of publicity and the great number of new services released by all major search engines raised the popularity bar a great deal and so news services have to settle for third place. Throughout the year, only 46% of the total number of internet users consulted news services.

Email is still king of all online services, 77% of the people questioned for this survey answered they check their inboxes on a daily basis. This is the service that people spend the most amount of time using, on an average basis an email checking session lasts 24 minutes, while an online search usually takes up to 4 minutes.