A few days ago the Google AdWords team announced a few updates to the service. Nothing like a few new feature roll-outs to keep the dream alive.

‘Last thirty days’ date range for reports
In addition to viewing data from the last month, you can now view performance data for the last thirty days. This date range is a new selection in the settings section of the create report page.

Graphs for weekly and hourly reports
Graphs are now available for weekly and hourly reports. To view the graphs, click ‘View graphs only’ or ‘View data and graphs’ from the View Report page.

Ad format filters for the site tool
The site tool now features ad format filters, an enhancement allowing you to choose sites that accept specific ad formats for site-targeted campaigns. You can now search for sites by ad types (text ads, image ads, or video ads) and various size formats.

The AdWords blog is pretty good, they post regularly and announce a lot of testing/beta tools.

Jay, they saw your coming. Link

Art can be found in many places, including underground. In this case the art is the underground. Anyone who has seen these famous routes or ever been to London can find the humor and cleverness in these.

Some really amazing work here titled A4 Papercut. All paper sculptures made from a single sheet of paper.
The detail is unreal.

Funny how from time to time things like this come about. Was poking through some links and found the full source code for MS DOS. Yes, the same.

Pretty crazy to see the way they compliled all this together. I’m not a C programmer, but like any good language the logic is universal, in this case it’s just madness. Check out this snip from FDISK:

yikes, and I thought my AJAX spinny-loader thingy was tech. hehe.

Pretty good high level discussion of css techniques from SXSW 2006. If you have to get under the hood of a website once and a while, definitely worth a listen. Tiffany B. Brown, the first panelist, has her notes online along with a good collection of links.

CSS Problem Solving

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CSS Problem Solving - Monday, March 13th

Today’s web designers and developers produce on standards-based technologies for their web sites and applications. As these web builders get more familiar with CSS for their web sites designs, they face major issues working with this design language. In this presentation, a panel of CSS ninjas solves real-world CSS problems submitted from SXSW attendees.

Moderator: Christopher R Schmitt Principal, Heatvision.com Inc

Ethan Marcotte Creative Lead, Vertua Studios
Dave Shea mezzoblue.com
Charles Wyke-Smith Dir of Production, Nacio Systems
Christopher Schmitt Principal, Heatvision.com Inc
Tiffany B Brown Owner, Webinista LLC/Georgia Institute of Technology

The Ring
This is quite simpley the craziest idea I have seen in while

Ten Geek Business Myths
Mostly common sense…

Google Does The Mashup Dance
I like saying “Google Gadgets”

Finding fresh inspiration
Get out of your cube and find some inspiration

Google Code Search
Too much Google i know, but more cool stuff.

The State Of Web Development
Interesting poll results from edgy web developers

Mark Cuban no likee the YouTube/Google marriage

Below are some interesting links i have run into over the last week or so. Enjoy!
Competitio.us
Good way to keep track of your ex-________’s site/blog. Fill in the blank, girlfriend, company whatever

Revver API
Build your next killer video app

The New NBA Ball
If your next job is power forward for the Lakers, you better get used to the new ball

User Experience: Casinos
Interesting observations of user experience in a casino.

Tivo Update: Who killed TivoToGo
Tivo talk always spurs up heater conversation here at the JLOOP