Mustafa Abusalah Blog

A question came to my mind today when I saw a new message on Facebook indicating that to keep Facebook free, customized ads based on members interests will be shown on our profiles or dashboard. Today as well I saw a suggested list of people that I might know on LinkedIn. One of them is a friend of mine that we have never exchanged an email or even connected on social media. This friend has 0 friends on his friends list so there is no common people between us. Same question came to my mind again. How the social media and search engines are able to make this semantic networks! Google Search uses our search history to show results that might be of our interests, it also use the same information to show related ads. Google is a free search that we use and they make money out of the ads. It is a mutual benefit, we search for free and they make money from ads we see based on our search keywords. Same scenario in Social Media, so Facebook and LinkedIn, and other Social N...

A blog post on inside google desktop blog which was the last one I guess quoted the below: "As of September 14, Google Desktop will no longer be available for download, and existing installations will not be updated to include new features or fixes. Thanks again to all of our users. It’s been a fun journey." The question is why? Some people might argue that the vast move towards mobiles and smart devices and the wide usage of Android operating system among many of the devices reduced the necessity of desktop search. Other people might say that Google was not making money out of Google Desktop that's why a decision was made to stop supporting the application! a vast number of people used Google Desktop to easily locate their files. Microsoft search engine embedded in windows failed to satisfy users. Microsoft search is slow inaccurate does not index emails etc. Recently Microsoft learnt from Google and started enhancing the search engine, still Google se...

Google Adsense is a web tool that allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to automatically serve text, image, video, and rich media adverts that are targeted to site content and audience. These adverts are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google, and they can generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis.  Google servers advertisers using google adwords platform, while adsense is the publishers platform. Google Adsense is the top Ad Publishers platform over the web ranking number one in web advertising industry. Adsense offers contextual advertisements that covers web sites, blogs, games, videos, mobile browsing etc. What made Google Adsense no. 1 is the reliability, stability, variety of services and large number of publishers including google it self. Also google has a fair platform that detects invalid clicks so google successfully protects its advertisers and also offers its best publishers top CPC. Two reasons are behin...

Below is a Coldfusion Function that Calculates the Distance Between Two Geographical Locations (Longitude and Latitude) whether in decimal or degrees:

Inside AdSense : Announcing the new Inside AdSense Arabia blog We’re very excited to announce the launch of our newest blog, the AdSense Arabia blog . Like our other Inside AdSense blogs, it will provide optimization tips, product announcements, and other program information to help our Arab publishers maximize their earnings and make the most out of their Google AdSense accounts. With the rapidly developing online advertising market in the Middle East & North Africa region, and the growing interest in Google AdSense, we’re thrilled to be taking the next step by introducing this new information platform. Joining English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Turkish, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Chinese - Traditional, Chinese - Simplified, and Korean, AdSense Arabia blog is our fifteenth Inside AdSense blog worldwide. Check out the navigation sidebar under the header “Related Google Blogs” for links to all of them! We hope to launch additional Inside ...

I have developed a new igoogle gadget that shows random photos related to nature on your igoogle home, also the photo changes when ever you refresh your igoogle home. You may also embed this gadget into your website using iframe. To try the gadget on your igoogle click on this link To embed the gadget in your website, copy and paste the below code: <iframe scrolling="no" title="Weather Forecast" frameborder="0" style="height: 420px; width:auto" src="http://www.sms4all.info/flickr/" height="420"></iframe>

Igoogle Weather Forecast to most of major cities in the world, weather today, tomorrow and after tomorrow, Saint George - Grenada, Abuja - Nigeria, Gaborone - Botswana, Mahalapye - Botswana, Windhoek - Namibia, Henties-bay - Namibia, Keetmanshoop - Namibia, Toamasina - Madagascar, Lagos - Nigeria, Ibadan - Nigeria, Asaba - Nigeria, Onitsha - Nigeria, Brisbane - Australia, Port-moresby - Papua New Guinea, Addis-ababa - Ethiopia, Gore - Ethiopia, Malabo - Equatorial Guinea, Conakry - Guinea, Athens - Greece, Abu-dhabi - UAE, Dubai - UAE, Kuwait - Kuwait, Muscat - Oman, Riyadh - Saudi Arabia, Amman - Jordan, Jerusalem - Palestine, Cairo - Egypt, Alexandria - Egypt, Beirut - Lebanon, Damascus - Syria, Doha - Qatar, London - England, Paris - France, Khartoum - Sudan, Manama - Bahrain, Amsterdam - Holland, Washington DC - United States, Teplice - Czech Republic, Mexico City - Mexico, Madrid - Spain, Barcelona - Spain, Rome - Italy, Nablus - Palestine, Al aqabah - Jordan, Sanaa - Yemen, Mi...

Despite the number of interruptions I had today, I was able to produce the below video tutorial that demonstrates real time example showing how to embed Google ad-sense inside your Facebook application.

Google is apparently in the early stages of a research project that appears to aim as high as perhaps replacing the HTTP protocol, the fundamental technology that essentially makes the World Wide Web possible. In a somewhat obscure post on the Chromium blog , the development branch of their Chrome ( ) browser, Google ( ) reveals they’ve been working on a new protocol dubbed SPDY for “SPeeDY” for its goal of making the web faster. Full article Here

Google webmaster tools are very helpful in improving your website or blog presence over the Internet. For normal website statistics the best tool you could use is Google analytics as it has a rich analytic tools. In this article I will go through the steps you need to follow to add your website or blog to Google webmaster tools: Login to your Google webmaster tools On the dashboard add your website URL as shown in the photo below: Now its time to verify that this site or blog belongs to you, this can be done by copying the verification code you see after you pressed on continue, copy the code and past it as instructed to the header tag in your index page of your website or your blog template, to do this on blog: press on the blog Layout tab an on the sub tab edit HTML, then add the tag inside <head> and then save. Go back to the webmaster tools and press on verify. Now your site or blog should be verified. Its time to Index your site on sitemaps , this will advance the existence...

Google is developing an operating system (OS) for personal computers, in a direct challenge to market leader Microsoft and its Windows system. Google Chrome OS will be aimed initially at small, low-cost netbooks, but will eventually be used on PCs as well. Google said netbooks with Chrome OS could be on sale by the middle of 2010. "Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS," the firm said in its official blog. For full article press here

Google introduced lately a new communication, collaboration, email and message system called wave. Google wave will be released late this year 2009. Below is a video by Google wave development team, enjoy.

I just found recently a new search engine called bing actually bing is not a normal search engine it is more into decision assistance engine where it assist you in making you decision for instance when booking a summer holiday or planning to go our for dinner. Please find below a video overview of this new era of search engines: You may access the search engine on this link