Urchin is a website statistic analysis script used by website owners to track the traffic and user experience of the website. If you happen to have a hosting account with you, probably you have heard about this useful analytics scipt other than Webalizer and Awstats. Anyway, this great service was acquired by Google in March, 2005, but its future development has been a mystery since the acquisition. Though Urchin still selling its service to the end users through its website, no one (of course except Google employees) actually knows what Google will do to Urchin.

Somehow, when I was playing with the latest Google AdSense feature in Blogger.com just now, I found that Google is actually applying Urchin on its free blogging service. I saw connections established to service.urchin.com, when I login to the Google AdSense account from within Blogger.com.

So, I guess Google is only applying Urchin service to its own services at the moment. One thing I really hope to see in near future is Google offering this expensive website analytics script Free Of Charge like the rest of its great services.

Most of us know Blogger.com belongs to Google. Just in case you didn’t know, both Blogger.com and Blogspot.com are the same free blogging service offered by Google. So as expected, to sell advertisement by integrating Google AdSense into the blog should not be very difficult.

In fact, the Ads integration is actually not hard for those who understand HTML and PHP programming language. Now, with the latest AdSense feature available within Blogger.com, integrating Ads from Google AdSense into your blog in Blogger.com has become easier for everyone, even those non-IT literate bloggers. :)

I was playing with this new feature and found that it is really very easy to publish advertisements via Google AdSense. One thing I like about this new feature is the ease of putting Ads that blend nicely into the template by just select the Blend Template option.

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Easy Steps To Earn Money Using Blogger.com

With the help of so many Mozilla Firefox supports, Mozilla Firefox has officially surpass the 90 Million downloads mark, on September 20, 2005 at 17:33:58 GMT+8 (local time) !!

Well, currently Mozilla Firefox is having a few records in hand :-

• 1 Million of download on the first day of Firefox 1.0 release.
• 10 Million downloads in the first month after the release.

Hopefully, by November 9, 2005, which is the anniversary of Mozilla Firefox 1.0, there will be another 10 Million downloads to sum up a total of 1 Billion downloads in one year !!

So, guys, help promoting a better browser over Internet Explorer by asking your friends, relatives, dogs, cats, birds and whoever can click this button and download it : .

Go Firefox, go !!

When I started my blogging lide back in April, I posted a very brief history of Mozilla Firefox and its roadmap. Today, I saw an article from Microsoft by Sandi Hardmeier, talking about the history of its browser, Internet Explorer.

Well, I didn’t know actually Internet Explorer is celebrating its 10 years old birthday this year. Microsoft Internet Explorer was officially born in 1995, when its former browser Mosaic handed the licensed source code to Microsoft. I was also surprised when I get to know the development team of Netscape Navigator is on the same team who created Mosaic, which means Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are from the same family. :p
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History Of Microsoft Internet Explorer

Just a few days ago, in the post of Google Blog Search Strategy, I mentioned in the comments that by submitting the posts in your blog to Google Sitemaps might help Google to update your latest posts. Hence, it will increase the chances of your readers to reach your blog through Google Blog Search.

Usually, your posts will get indexed by Google when its spider crawls to your blog, but this is not guaranteed when it will come. Instead of waiting for the spider to come, why not submit all your posts to Google Sitemaps and let all of them get indexed as soon as possible? In fact, my blog has got more than 18,000 20,000 pages (Updated!) indexed by Google, I strongly think partly due to my frequent submission to Google Sitemaps.

Some of you, including Andrew, might not have submitted your posts to Google Sitemaps and would like to know how to do it, right? I will try my best to show you how. However, I will break this post into three parts :-

• Part 1. For anyone using any blog script, such as WordPress, Movable Type, Blogsome, Blogspot, etc.
• Part 2. For WordPress user.
• Part 3. For Movable Type user. I am not a MT user, but I’ll see what I can do about it. :)

First of all, you will need a Google Sitemaps account. If you already have a GMail account, go login to Google Sitemaps. If you still do not have a GMail account, drop me a line or two to my GMail account, I will send an invitation to you right away.

Next, you will need to generate a sitemap to submit to Google Sitemaps. In this post, I will only cover how to generate sitemap using online tools.
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Boost Ranking In Google Blog Search Using Google Sitemaps – [Part 1]

Although Sprint is not one of the Telcos over here, still news about the launch of new products are always good to share.

Anyway, Sprint has just announced the launch of its first Pocket PC phone, PCS Vision Smart Device PPC-6700. It is in fact the first PDA phone in the US to offer the latest Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 as the operating system. One thing attracted me was the keyboard which slides out from under the screen, when you slide open the keyboard, the screen rotates into landscape mode. This would be very useful to view documents like Excel and web pages.
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Sprint First Smart Phone