Does your workplace or educational institution block websites using a proxy? This tip from O’Reilly, will show you how to access those sites using Google Translate. Think of it as a free proxy!

I just logged into my Google Analytics account and was shown the following message:

As part of our efforts in expanding system capacity, your account now has the ability to utilize additional profiles. The total number of profiles enabled is 5

If you already have an Analytics account, it might be worth checking in and claiming your 5 additional sites before they go away!

Links are dead - long live links! is a great article that suggests that the business of SEO is about to change away from incoming and outgoing links to a method that places more emphasis on Clickstreams. Google is going to great lengths to collect your clickstream by using products like Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, GMail and Google Reader. Add on the Google Analytics webmaster tool and you can quickly see that the search giant are beginning to collect alot of our click behaviours. This clickstream can then be used to determine how important a page or site actually is.

Google Safe Browsing is an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences.

It looks like Google has created a Google Homepage API for their Personal Homepage product. If you haven’t checked out the personal homepage feature, it is pretty neat and on par with Micrsoft Live. It acts as a limited RSS aggregator and now it looks like they are allowing developers to extend the product with third-party “widgets/gadgets”. The API makes extensive use of XML and JavaScript, so we should see some pretty cool entries from the web development community.

The most recent short book release by Pragmatic Programmers is titled - Google Maps and Ajax. It outlines and explains how to hookup Google Maps, Geo Coding and AJAX to create a simple mashup.

It looks like the Adsense Firefox/Google Toolbar Referral Program has been opened up to international Adsense publishers. In a nutshell, this referral program pays you $1.00USD everytime you convince somebody to install Firefox and the Google Toolbar.

Looking to include geo mapping capabilities to your PHP applications? Phoogle Maps is a complete mapping class for Google Maps that allows you to place maps on your page with about 5 lines of code!

Greg Yardley is reporting that Google is testing out Click-to-Call AdWords. Now when you see a phone icon next to an AdWord listing, you can click on it where you are then prompted to enter your phone number. You will then recieve a phone call from the advertiser. I’ll pass but nonetheless, it’s an interesting new marketing approach for advertisers (and telemarketers?).

James Anderson, a participant in Google’s Summer of Code, talks about his project called transparent synchronization or Tsync for short. Tsync has the ability to keep a set of files consistent across many machines, even when those devices have different degrees of connectivity and availability.

“My solution synchronizes multiple devices so that you never have to move data back and forth by hand, and it’s all updated automatically. It does so while requiring minimal effort from the user, at the same time it maintains security, robustness to failure, and fast performance.”