Things have been very busy at Pixel8 over the last few weeks, and we have been a little absent from the blog… but rest assured we are still here 
And to make it up to you, we have compiled a very useful and informative Bumper edition of Online News Snippets.. Enjoy!!!
General News
- Flash and Google – Improved Flash Indexing. Looks like Google is getting there…
- Chrome – Is it another Google flop?
- Sobering news from Sequoia Capital
- Google Experiments with Banner Ads on Results Pages
- Gambling ads back in business on Google
- Microsoft’s new search engine – U Rank
- The Google books copyright gets settled… finally…
- South Africa’s answer to PayPal – PayFast
- Live Search rebranded as “Windows Live Search”?
- YouTube Search Ads
- Google using shady advertising tactics?
- The effects of Social Media on business… (yes, business does interfere with my Facebook time )
- Twitter Dangers… Terrorist Tweets (Thanks to Inno for this one)
Different Stuff
- The History of Search Engines
- Most incredible Photoshop tutorials
- Gmail Emoticons – a picture is worth a thousand words… really…
- Sergey Brin has his own personal blog, very interesting reading…
- Should you stop blogging?
- The Widget Channel – now if only this gets to SA.
- Google Street View – Always wondered how they did this…
- How a Viral Marketing Campaign should work… this clip is hilarious!
Cool Design
- The White Rabbit Restaurant - very cool storybook website.
- Wario Land – Good enough to shake your Wii at…
- Power to the Poster (Thanks Jaco)
- VW wants you to have a virtual baby… a bit creepy, but pretty cool!
- Create your online portfolio with Flickrfolio
And as mentioned last time, seeing as we cannot possibly cover all the cool news, all the time (although we are trying) please feel free to post your comments containing any cool news and info you may find as well.
