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Interesting list of google wave extensions that I found in DocStoc Google Wave Extension List -

The newly released Google Web element: custom search is awesome. To add it to my wordpress theme (which doesn’t have a top sidebar for widgets) I had to edit (Appearance ⇒ Editor) the header.php file and add the snippet I got from Google there, at just at the end of the header.php. So the search web element is show right after the banner and before the posts. ...

I tried to use my blog feed as a sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools, but it Google complains about “Invalid XML: too many tags describing this tags” in several points in the feed. I found in several places that this due to the format of the feed, a simple change to ATOM will fix it. But I’m using a Wordpress Feedburner plugin to redirect my blog’s feed to the Feedburner one. This plugin redirects all feeds (/wp/feed, /wp/wp-atom.php, etc.) to the feedburner feed (that for some reason Google doesn’t like). ...

at least according to Google Trends

If you are getting (like me) the “The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)” error when trying to start Google chrome try to use -no-sandbox option as pointed out in Google Chrome : The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005) « me & PHP.

Keyboard shortcuts. Navigate though google search results (similar to Google Ctrl-Arrow Greasemonkey script). Timeline and map views Left-hand search navigation and Right-hand contextual search navigation Google Experimental Search via: Lifehacker

If you live in Madrid this Google maps application will help you to check the status of the rings roads surrouding Madrid (Road M-40 and M-45 )before you take the car in the morning. Direct link to app Found via bbs keyhole

I’ve been using Google Analytics for a while in my site but haven’t look at the reports very closely. One thing is clear when took a look at the reports: most of the traffic come out of google searches. Then I tried to find what exact search queries the users performs to find my site. The google analytics reports for this “search terms” is in my humble opinion a little bit difficult to find. But I found via this post that the report is located at All Reports -> Marketing Optimization -> Search Engine marketing -> Overall keyword Conversion. ...

I decided to give a try to Google Maps API and I found it pretty easy. Currently I’m looking for a jiu-jitsu school near Madrid so I decided to pinpoint all jiu-jitsu schools in a google map. I’ve got the school addresses in this page and put those directly in the page using the geocoder api. Here’s the result, you can see all the code using View Source in the browser menu it’s all embedded javascript.

Wordpress plugins that I’m currently using AutoMeta – Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for WordPress Google Analyticator – for use with Google analytics Feedburner Feed Replacement – provides integration with feedburner.com PJW Mime Config – allows to change mime-types associated with file-extensions Social Bookmarks Bar – adds a bar to each post to submit to digg, del.icio.us, etc Google Sitemaps – integrates with google sitemaps