Google webmaster central just posted a recap of their live sesssion chat session.

Unfortunate there is no audio.

Last but not least, we are bummed to admit that someone (whose name starts with ‘A’ and ends with ‘M’) uncharacteristically forgot to hit the record button (really!), so there’s unfortunately no audio recording to share :-(.

If I hadn’t had to go to the dentist that day and miss the first part of the session, I would have recorded the audio and the video myself. This would have been great for my blog because 1) I would have published screen captures of the presentations, recordings of the audio, and also the transcript before Google did, and 2) because they would likely link to my post from their blog post if I commented saying that I had the audio myself.

I am so sorry to have let you all down.

But at least you can see the presentations bellow and also the questions and answers here. Next time, I will try harder.

John’s slides on “Frightening Webmastering Myths”

Jonathan’s slides on “Using the Not Found errors report in Webmaster Tools”

Maile’s slides on “Where We’re Coming From”

Google webmaster central announced that they are going to have an open chat session today (22 October 2008) at 9am PDT (5pm GTM).

They will be using the new Google moderator tool, which should make it really easy to post questions and vote on your favorites.

The chat will go on for about an hour.

Here’s what it is all about:

INTRO: A quick hello from some of your favorite Help Group Guides

PRESO: A 15 minute presentation on “Frightening Myths and Misconceptions” by John Mueller

FAQs: A return of our popular “Three for Three,” in which we’ll have three different Googlers tackling three different issues we’ve seen come up in the Group recently… in under three minutes each!

And lots of Q&A! You’ll have a chance to type questions during the entire session (actually, starting an hour prior!) using our hunky-dory new Google Moderator tool.  Ask, then vote!  With this tool and your insights, we expect the most interesting questions to quickly float to the top.

Sounds great to me! You can find more information on the Google Webmaster Central Blog, or you can register right now here.

Have fun! See you there!

Joel Drapper

Note: This is not me.

Google have just added a face recognition feature to their picasa web.

When activated, this feature finds all similar faces in your photos and groups them into one section. You can then confirm and asign a name tag.

I am really looking forward to seeing this feature in latter offline versions of picasa in the near future. It’s a brilliant way to organize your images.

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