By: Doug Caverly | Source: webpronews.com

Google has joined the Eclipse Foundation, which describes itself as "an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software."

This puts Google in close proximity to some other big companies, such as Intel and Motorola, which are already involved with Eclipse.

Intel and Motorola are "strategic members," though, while Google is just an "add-in provider member."

Still, Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, told ZDNet that "we are, of course, thrilled that Google decided to join the Eclipse Foundation."

"It was a nice gesture of support for the Eclipse community and it is appreciated," Milinkovich continued. "But what I am really excited about is the way that Google is using Eclipse as the development tools platform for the Google Web Toolkit. It is yet another demonstration of how Eclipse can be used as the tools platform for so many different languages and environments."

It’s possible that Google could help Eclipse out in other ways, as well.

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By: Bruce Johnson | Source: googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com

Version 1.3 of the Google Web Toolkit has been released, and it’s completely open source. While that may not seem remarkable in and of itself, it’s part of a bigger plan: "To radically improve the web experience for users . . ."

So, what’s new in this 1.3 RC? Well, nothing, actually. The only thing that has intentionally changed since GWT 1.2 is the open source thing. However, since we did have to tweak a lot of source code and the GWT build scripts to make it easy for anyone to compile, we want to be conservative and call this a Release Candidate anyway. Once we hear enough success stories with the 1.3 RC, we’ll call it 1.3 Final then get back to full-speed-ahead coding as we drive toward a nice big GWT 1.4.

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By: Shimon Sandler | Source: shimonsandler.com

Yahoo has been practicing paid inclusion under the Yahoo Search Marketing and Inktomi umbrellas for almost 5 years, yet for some reason Paid Inclusion does not get the coverage in the Search Marketing community it deserves.

Why not? My guess is the modification of organic listings with paid results and all around tracking can be seen as tampering, selling out or manipulation of natural results with marketing messages. But on the other hand, couldn’t SEO be seen as doing something similar.

Simply stated, Paid Inclusion is a direct data feed into Yahoo Web Results. It appears as Organic results…not Paid Search. And, ensures all your valuable content is both Indexed and optimized into Yahoo search results. It is a guarantee that all your content will be mixed in with the organic results.

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