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Amazon has launched it’s own maps tool called A9.com Maps. The good thing with Amazon Maps is that you can actually see the still images of the streets as you search, this feature is missing in both MSN Virtual Earth and Google Maps. However coverage of Amazon Maps is restricted to US territory.

This php script pulls your tags from flickr, and arranges them in a number of ways according to the relative counts of the given tags. www.allthingsalceste.com/cloudtagflickrphp/

Free online tool for color matching and palette design. You can download the result or send it to your email. www.colorblender.com

MyProgs allows you to keep a social list of the programs you use. After you sign up you can add programs to your unique list. You can view anyone else’s programs and they can view yours. Extra user-defined data can be added to each program entry to organize and describe the program further such as program descriptions, a link to the program’s homepage, and tags. You can use tags to categorize (and thus organize) programs so that you and others using this site will have an easier time finding new and interesting programs. myprogs.net

Google launched Google AdSense Blog.

Fewer Ads, More Money?
“We’ve updated AdSense to now vary the number of text ads that appear in a given ad unit. When we have a set of highly relevant and useful ads, we give them more of a presence in the ad unit by eliminating other ads. In some cases, if we determine a particular ad performs extremely well on a page, we’ll remove all other ads from the unit and show just this single ad.”

That’s a good insight to their new strategy. No wonder some publishers were complaining about their low impressions. Read more at adsense.blogspot.com

Adsense Notifier simply shows your adsense stats on the status bar and updates the stats automatically. code.mincus.com/?p=3