Search Engines learns to crawl Flash

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.

Googles full article

More from their Webmaster Central Blog – Here

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Search Engine Land has a very nice write up on the new technology of SE

Their’s is here

And on the topic of video might as well toss in the Official Google YouTube Channel – Here

Writers Strike

I have only loosely been following the writers strike in Hollywood. But after a little looking I found the video on youtube that gives the “quick lowdown” on what started the thing back on Nov. 1 2007. I’ll post that here.

Being a publisher online involved in marketing and advertising I think that the Networks are being unfair. I urge those who have not to sign up the petition, watch the vid, read the blogs and support the writers. They give “birth” to the scripts and should get the extra 4 cents on residuals. The intenet should be helping people make money not stopping them.

The Petition

The Blog

Teen Millionaire: Web business going good

Not so long ago, teen Ashley Qualls lived in a one-bedroom apartment with her mom and sister. But with her computer and savvy business sense she made a better life for all of them.

Ashley QuallsAshley Qualls doesn’t sound like a typical high school student. Maybe that’s because the 17-year-old is the CEO of a million-dollar business.

Ashley is the head of whateverlife.com, a website she started when she was just 14 — with eight dollars borrowed from her mother.

Full Article Here

Excellent video to watch as she talks about what she has been doing online for the last 3 years to make her the big Money