Expanding Google Analytics Social Reports: Tracking Links To Your Site Content – Analytics Blog

From the Google Analytics Blog:

Have you ever wondered which other pages on the web link to your own? Wouldn’t it be nice to know which sites are talking about your content, and in which context? Well, a problem no more:now you can see all the backlink URL’s, post titles, and more right within the new Social reports

The concept of trackbacks, a protocol by which different sites could notify each other of referencing links, first emerged back in 2002. Since then, the blogosphere has grown in leaps and bounds, but the requirement for each site to explicitly implement this protocol has always stood in the way of adoption. If only you could crawl the web and build an accurate link graph. The good news is we already do that at Google, and are now providing this insight to Google Analytics users.
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Dip Plant Stems and Cuttings in Cinnamon Before Planting to Prevent Fungal Infection

From Lifehacker:

If you’re trying to plant a cutting, you can give your plants a headstart with a little rooting hormone, or a medicinal dip you add to the root to prevent disease and infection while your cutting is taking root. If you don’t have any rooting hormone handy, a quick dip in a little cinnamon will do the trick just as nicely, according to the folks at All Things Plants.

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Weighthacker: weight-loss for geeks – Boing Boing

From BoingBoing:

Former Boing Boing guestblogger and all-round* happy mutant Craig Engler sez,

Weighthacker.com is a new site for geeks who want to lose weight and get fit. It takes the latest science and research about nutrition and weight loss and translates it into practical, daily advice that geeks can incorporate into their existing lifestyles.

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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Coding guidelines for HTML and CSS

From the Google Webmaster Blog:

Great code has many attributes. It’s effective, efficient, maintainable, elegant. When working on code with many developers and teams and maybe even companies, great code needs to also be consistent and easy to understand. For that purpose there are style guides. We use style guides for a lot of languages, and our newest public style guide is the Google HTML and CSS Style Guide.
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Say hello or olá or halo or salam to automatic message translation in Gmail

From the Gmail Blog:

We’re excited to announce three Gmail Labs graduations today: Automatic Message Translation, Smart Mute and Title Tweaks.

Automatic Message Translation
Did you ever dream about a future where your communications device could transcend language with ease? Well, that day is a lot closer. Back when we launched automatic message translation in Gmail Labs, we were curious to see how people would use it.
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