Yesterday I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 and it broke the Google Sitemaps plugin. It looks like there is a new version for 2.3. You can find it here, you’ll need version 3.0. Also the plugin now notifies ask.com and yahoo.com. Everything seems to be working fine now.
It looks like Google Analytics is not gathering data today. I have six sites that use analytics and they are all saying that I have had no hits today. However, if you look at my Google Adsense I can see successful page views. Is anyone else seeing this problem? I haven’t seen anything from Google yet!
Update: Google is doing site maintenance.
Today while searching Google for a PHP Events Calendar to use on doswfl.com I ran into a Malware Warning brought to me by Google. I haven’t seen this before from Google. Is this new? If so it’s a great idea! This could possible cut down on the number of windows viruses simple by warning users and making it harder for them to get to a site known to have embeded Malware. Take a look at this screenshot
The founders of YouTube have posted a small clip on there site! The video mentions two kingdoms coming together which I thought was kind of funny. Today on the NBC Today show they mentioned the acquisition and then mentioned internet Boom! God please don’t say we are going to have another Internet boom. I don’t think we are even close to a boom. You have to remember that back in the 90′s and now are two totally different markets of the Internet. There are not many similarities between the two and many changes have happened making the two time periods much different. Do you think there is a boom?
[tags]YouTube, Google, NBC, Internet Boom, GooTube[/tags]
Well I stated last week that Google may have been in talks with YouTube to offer them a deal. MyWay is reporting that this is true. Google has purchased YouTube with Stock for 1.65 Billion Dollars. That’s right folks billion dollars! So here is the question, Is YouTube really worth $1.65 Billion? Myspace and other sites still get more visitors and posts than YouTube, so what is the reasoning behind this deal? I think this is an interesting price and purchase. What do you think? I have a feeling that Internet monopoly will be the phrase to be bloged about in the coming weeks.
Washington Times: Google to buy YouTube
Forbes: YouTube 2.0
Wall Street Journal: Google’s Deal
