Are you developing free iPhone or Android applications? With our new beta product - AdSense for Mobile Applications, you can monetize your mobile applications by showing contextually targeted ads and/or placement targeted ads alongside your application content. We provide you with iPhone and Android SDKs and example applications that request and display AdSense ads. Our SDKs also support DoubleClick ads.

You can show 320x50 text and image ads linked to HTML webpages in your application. These ads are targeted to the keywords that you send us in the AdSense (or DoubleClick) ad request. The keywords must be relevant to your application content. If your application content is loaded from a webpage that is customized for iPhones and Android handsets, then you can also send us the webpage URL for us to target ads. The ads may also be placement targeted which means an advertiser can specifically target to your application.

Our iPhone SDK is compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, and our Android SDK is compatible with Android 1.5 SDK. The SDKs include a library that can be linked in to your application which exposes methods to fetch and show ads. You must place a maximum of one ad per screen at the top or bottom (see the screenshot from the Backgrounds iPhone application). When a user clicks on the ad in your application, you can choose whether the user should view the advertiser's website in iPhone Safari or a full-screen UIWebView on the iPhone. For Android applications, our API defaults to opening the advertiser's website in the native browser.

To get started with monetizing your iPhone or Android application, sign up today on the AdSense for Mobile Applications website. We can't wait to have you join our beta network!

By Jennifer Lin, Software Engineer, Google Mobile Team

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I love that they're using a white board to manage their ideas on the greatest technology everrrr. Speaks lots.

Schematics’ Multi-touch Interactive Touchwall Debuts in Cannes

Schematic, one of the interactive agencies which helped conceive the augmented-reality interfaces of Minority Report, has been laboring for the last seven years to make the film’s dazzling technologies a reality. They just showed off their latest attempt, which comes tantalizingly close. Developed for the2009 Cannes Advertising Festival and a sequel to a previous, smaller version, the new interface is loaded with maps, schedules and social networking software; the wall is multi-touch, so that many people could interact with the wall at once. But the coolest part is the built-in RFID, which allowed convention-goers to simply flash a badge, and have the touchwall recognize exactly who they were and where they’ve been. It’s being rolled out in France next month.

via Fast Company

Installing a fast browser is not always enough to have a good experience when you browse the web: many web pages aren't optimized for performance. To help webmasters improve their sites, Google launched a new section as part of Google Code: "Let's make the web faster", which includes useful articles, videos and downloadable tools.

You'll learn how to optimize CSS declarations, how to optimize JavaScript code and avoid memory leaks, how to use the best image format and prefetch resources.

Google also released a Firebug plug-in for Firefox that evaluates web pages and provides suggestions to improve them. Here are the suggestions provided for this blog's homepage:


* There is 58.8kB worth of JavaScript. Minifying could save 15.7kB (26.7% reduction). Google provides the minified versions of all the inline blocks and external files.

* The following cacheable resources have a short freshness lifetime. Specify an expiration at least one month in the future for the following resources: [list of resources].

* The following domains only serve one resource each. If possible, avoid the extra DNS lookups by serving these resources from existing domains.

* An inline script block was found in the head between an external CSS file and another resource. To allow parallel downloading, move the inline script before the external CSS file, or after the next resource.

* A width and height should be specified for all images in order to speed up page display.

* Serve the following static resources from a domain that doesn't set cookies: [list of resources].

great colors schemes, and thanks by your post i found the BBCOLORS code, i also made my own color theme based on the Blackboard of text mate editor, hope you like.

file:
http://rapidshare.com/files/247522401/nelo-blackboard.bbcolors.zip.html

screenshot:
http://tinypic.com/r/262a2xk/5

We just added external resource loading to our Flash indexing capabilities. This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file—whether it's text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc.—we can index this external content too, and associate it with the parent SWF file and any documents that embed it.
This new capability improves search quality by allowing relevant content contained in external resources to appear in response to users' queries. For example, this result currently comes up in response to the query [2002 VW Transporter 888]:


Prior to this launch, this result did not appear, because all of the relevant content is contained in an XML file loaded by a SWF file.

To date, when Google encounters SWF files on the web, we can:

• Index textual content displayed as a user interacts with the file. We click buttons and enter input, just like a user would.
• Discover links within Flash files.
• Load external resources and associate the content with the parent file.
• Support common JavaScript techniques for embedding Flash, such as SWFObject and SWFObject2.
• Index sites scripted with AS1 and AS2, even if the ActionScript is obfuscated. Update on June 19, 2009: We index sites with AS3 as well. The ActionScript version isn't particularly relevant in our Indexing process, so we support older versions of AS in addition to the latest.

If you don't want your SWF file or any of its external resources crawled by search engines, please use an appropriate robots.txt directive.

Written by Janis Stipins, Software Engineer

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You can cook with it!?!?!

Philadelphia Weekly, one of our free philly newspapers, has an interesting article about the current state of Love Park and the recent alleged phenomena of over the top police brutality there. The article also goes into how much this city just hates skateboarding. Looks like ‘Go Skateboarding Day’ this year is gonna be all out war. Thanks to Jake Hanitschak (interviewed in the article) for sending me the link. Read it here.

The Sixth Sense SPOILER!

simko:

Photograph by Nicolas Mathéus…

gesteves:

S’mores made with peanut-butter cookies with bittersweet chocolate, caramel sauce, and marshmallows, and other s’mores recipes. Because I forgot to bring lunch and I’m a masochist. Enjoy. (Via The Kitchn.)

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