Google updates its web IM application on Tuesday with the following cool new features to boot: Pop it out now - Google Talk can now be accessed in a pop out window from a link on personalized page, Pop it out again – For website owners and bloggers who embed the Google Talk on their site, they now have an option to start a Google Talk Session in a separate window by clicking on Google Talk button.
Google Talk Sidebar – For Firefox users, t

Google is introducing its MyMaps which will let users create their own maps using Google Maps. Interestingly called myMaps, this free tool will allow Google Maps users create maps of their neighborhoods and other places that they are aware of. To attract even the most non-techie users, creating maps in myMaps is as simple as pointing and clicking the computer mouse.
That’s why we’re announcing My Maps, a new feature that makes it quic

Search Engine Watch published an interesting case study today about a site that remapped all dynamic URLs via a tools such as mod-rewrite/.htaccess file (Apache Webserver) or Helicon ISAPI Rewrite (Windows IIS Webserver) to static URLs and 301 redirected (Not 302!) all dynamic URLs to the new static looking ones.
For example  “site.com/category.aspx?Cat=991″ , which is a .NET script that dynamically renders different product categ

Riding on newsweek statement that 2007 will be the year of Widgets, Yahoo! is relaunching its previously named Yahoo Widget Engine with a faster, lighter, and sleeker 4.0 version. Yahoo! Widgets is now ready for download with a barrage of new and exciting features such as: Widget Dock - a Google Desktop like feature which lets Widget users organized their favorite widgets better. It even shows mini-widgets that displays information snippets

SearchEngineWatch.com seems to be prepared for the leave of Danny Sullivan, the founder of SEW and it head editor for over a decade. While Danny is preparing via his firm Calafia Consulting the launch of his new site SearchEngineLand.com on December 11 and SEW not only lost Danny but most of their long term and well respected editors as well, such as Chris Sherman, Barry Schwartz, Jenifer Slegg and Bill Slawski, did the owner of SEW, Incisive not just sit around whining and doing nothing.
They got Christine Churchill, the President of KeyRelevance.com to write and post a very good article about the premium Keyword Research and (Competitive) Intelligence Tool from Hitwise called Search Intelligence