Feedburner has announced a couple of updates to what they are offering in their free stats package including ‘Live Hits’, the ability to see the last 25 hits via your feed and how long the 25 hits were over and what agent they used to read your feed and ‘Yesterdays News’ ,the ability to track your subscribers on different platforms historically.
You can find more info at their blog
via ProBlogger.net
Steve Rubel reports that Yahoo Finance will begin testing a new widget that will allow bloggers and other websites to put real time stock quotes and charts on their sites.
Initial testing will begin in June. Publishers will be able to select any combination of quotes, charts and news. Up to ten companies can be included, and there are at least two options for customizing the chart.
I am not so interested. What do you think?
via TechCrunch
Today a new feature was launched on Google Blog Search that lets us narrow our search by date,i.e, by Last hour,by Last 12 hours,by Last day,by Past week and by Past month. You can also search by choosing start and end dates by yourself.
Using this feature, you can also track blog posts on your favorite topics according to when those items were posted. They have also incorporated some improvements in search quality that should make your blog-search experience even better.
I just used it, it’s a great feature for Google Blog Search
via Google Blog
It has now become possible to get a WordPress.com account without getting a free WordPress blog. WordPress.com has updated the registration page
If you ask me, I say this is a good idea as it helps bloggers who want an API key for the Akismet plugin without getting a blog. You can also leave comments on blogs that require sign-in, without getting a blog for yourself.
This is useful for WordPress.com also as they can now save system resources on empty blogs 
Google donates OpenSource software development tool with all the AJAX fun in it, makes creating AJAX applications much easier. With Google Web Toolkit (Beta) , you can develop and debug your own AJAX applications in Java code using the Java development tools of your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT compiler simply translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.
The Shuttle project began over a year and a half ago, aiming to beautify the WordPress administration panel. With the help of Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, Ryan Boren and Bryan Veloso (all top-notch designers), Shuttle has finally taken off. To get a better sense of what Shuttle is, I recommend you take a look at some of the screenshots. Shuttle is not a plugin you can download, instead it will be integrated into the next version of WordPress. The Shuttle team has worked closely with Matt Mullenwegg, lead WordPress developer, to seamlessly incorporate their efforts into WordPress.
Users of Gmail will soon experience a new feature called Gmail Pictures. The new feature basically lets you see who has emailed you, almost like an avatar in instant messengers.
The new feature won’t be available for all users at once, it will be rolled out slowly just like the chat feature did.
Google just anounced four new products of which three are launched- Google Co-op,Google Desktop 4,Google Notebook and Google Trends.
