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YouTube and LG decides to partner to come out with phone, not sure if it would be successful. I’m not really fond of LG phones.

Youtube, SKorea’s LG agree to develop mobile phone

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea’s LG Electronics said Tuesday it has signed an agrement with YouTube, the world’s biggest video-sharing website, to develop a mobile phone which can operate the service.

LG Electronics said the proposed model will enable users to upload, view and share video clips or user-created content (UCC) online freely without using computers.

“LG Electronics will unveil the mobile handset that fully supports the YouTube service for the first time in Europe in the second half of this year,” the South Korean firm said in a statement.

LG Electronics, the world’s fifth-largest mobile phone manufacturer, is also stepping up its partnership with Google, the world’s largest Internet serach engine which owns YouTube.

It began selling third-generation (3G) handsets called “Google phones” with software installed for directly using the Google service, in Europe last month.

Source: Yahoo! News

If they really do come out with this YouTube LG phones, I will mock at it for 1 week at least. Anyway, the market is just not ready for videos being served via mobile phones I think. Phones need to be a lot cheaper and the phone subscription need to be made cheaper too. That way, all the new-generation kids would go get cheated and purchase these YouTube phones. The students would find it fun… If they have the money.

And Daryl and I were talking about the LG logo, we don’t like it a lot.

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Me: LG has a frigging smiley that doesn’t look like its smiling. it looks like it’s winking at you but it really is just a terrible attempt to put alphabets ‘L’ and ‘G’ into a logo

D: i always think it’s freaky. bcos i imagine a real person w an LG head. but i always imagine freaky things.

Me: i don’t wish to imagine that, it’s nightmarish

The LG logo is the one with the red colored head.

Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company FeedBurner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal.

Ah, congratulations FeedBurner! Google should be pretty good owners. The buy fits Google well too. I think with the new buy Google can make their Blog Search much better. And I can smell a FeedBurner and RSS feed reader integration too!

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Google’s Gmail has been updates to allow bigger file attachments, 20 MB that is. I never had to send such huge files through Gmail but it is always good to hear of an upgrade.

The little problem is that most email providers don’t support incoming mail with such big attachments making Gmail rather lonely. Basically Gmail people would just be happy sending the 20 MB to their fellow Gmail friends. Perhaps other companies would move to 20 MB soon.

But really, what’s cooler is that - at Yahoo! Mail, there is no storage meter! Archive as much as you want now. Yahoo! is being really generous. Are you listening Microsoft?

Google rolls out new version of Google Analytics and it’s looking better than ever!

What is new?

In the new version, your reports have been redesigned for clarity, greater visibility of important metrics, and ease of use. Here are just a few of the features you’ll notice:

• Email and export reports: Schedule or send ad-hoc personalized report emails and export reports in PDF format.
• Custom Dashboard: No more digging through reports. Put all the information you need on a custom dashboard that you can email to others.
• Trend and Over-time Graph: Compare time periods and select date ranges without losing sight of long term trends.
• Contextual help tips: Context sensitive Help and Conversion University tips are available from every report.

The new interface has everything the previous interface had and more. In addition, links within reports make it easier to navigate related information and explore your data. (The above is from an email that Google sent me.)

Anyway, let’s take a visual tour of the new interface.

The interface undergoes a tremendous update, first of all. It looks much cleaner, much sleeker and feels faster. I’ll share with you some site statistics meanwhile.

From the above chart, you can see where my visitors are coming from. Not many people come from Asia and the reason is that most people come to this blog for images. I mean, they even took image of my brother’s birthday cake and post it on blogs to wish their friends happy birthday, wish they at least link back sometimes. I don’t block hot linking but I discourage hot-linking by placing a watermark on all my images. (more…)

Ah crap… Google sent me a email.

Hello XXX,

It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). In the future, we may adjust your payment for any days during which invalid clicks occurred in order to properly credit advertisers for any invalid activity.

As a reminder, any method of generating invalid clicks is strictly prohibited. Invalid clicks include but are not limited to any clicks that are generated through the use of robots, automated clicking tools, manual clicks by a publisher on the publisher’s own web pages, or a publisher encouraging others to click on his ads.

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Sincerely,

The Google Team

Only click on advertisements you guys genuinely are interested in. Thanks for clicking on my advertisements. Google Adsense program help me pay my bills and is quite crucial to the survival of this blog. In the past, I encouraged people verbally to click on my Google ads, I’m not sure of anyone still doing so, but I realized it is in violation of the terms and conditions. So forget what I told you guys last time. Only click on advertisements that you’re genuinely interested in. Domo arigato gozaimasu! Thanks a million.

I was arguing with my girlfriend about women not inventing anything useful. In an attempt to prove me wrong she Google “She invented” only to have ask Did you mean “He invented”.

Try googling “she invent”, you get a bias statement asking if you meant that “he invent”. Search engines are funny guys. Yeah, guys.

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Microsoft wants to aquire Yahoo! for $50 billion. Yahoo! has a lot of great products under its wing, notably Flickr, del.icio.us, Auctions, Finance, advertising and Mail.

But I do not want Microsoft to acquire Yahoo! at all! Imagine all the lost in competition. Currently the competition is among Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!. If they were to be together, it’s just one less competitor.

And Yahoo! is probably too big a company to gobble. They’d take years to completely acquire and integrate Yahoo! into the rest of Microsoft products. Eventually this acquistion may even set both companies back.

What Microsoft (and Yahoo!) should be doing is a partnership and more promotions. Make things work faster and build better interfaces.

Microsoft:

• your MSN Spaces is still quite crappy
• your Live Hotmail still needs to look better, compare Yahoo!
• your Virtual Earth product isn’t as cool as Google’s
• your search engine still needs to be improved a little
• you bloody need an RSS program that is online and integrated with Live products
• your Live ID program seems to be losing traction
• your calendar needs to learn a bit or two from Google
• you need to compete with Google with your the Office documents
• please look at del.icio.us and then look at your Windows Live Favorites, it’s more fun using del.icio.us
• you need to cross promote your software like what Google did
• stop working on Windows Live Mail Desktop, use concentrate on Live Hotmail
• you need to allow more publishers in your advertising program.

Microsoft, you don’t need to acquire Yahoo!, just work on your web applications and brush them up. I find myself using lesser and lesser of your products. I’m always willing to give your products a try, but a lot of your products aren’t too inspiring. There are some startup companies that does thing better than you do.

I portray Google and Yahoo! as much cooler companies. Your Windows Live brand isn’t cool at all. Tip: change all your products to LiveMail, LiveLinks, LiveSpaces, LiveReader, LiveEarth and whatever. Drop the Windows word, it’s boring. I applaud names such as Silverlight, that’s a fantastic start.

In the meantime, I’ll go back to using Gmail and Google Earth.

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[Oh by the way, Wall Street Journal has reported that the Microsoft-Yahoo talks of a possible acquistion is no longer active.]