Google +1 is a new product that was launched March 2011 in Beta to select users. Now it is out of Beta and you will find ads for it within Adsense and other places on the web.

Google +1 is Google’s version of Facebook’s Like button. It allows the sharing of recommendations with online connections  and it’s all integrated into Google search results.  Check out the video:

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Google Adsense prompted me to add a Plus 1 button to my websites. Set up is easy, only two small code snippets need to be pasted into the site template file(s). There is also a WordPress Plugin for Google Plus 1, but hopefully a newer version which, makes installation simpler, will be introduced.

Search Goolge Plus 1 and you will likely end up on the consumer end of things where you can join the experiment and start sharing your recommendations.

Is this going to be another Buzz kill? Tell us what you think?

Yahoo! announced that Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Delicious will become part of their new Internet company, AVOS.

Current Delicious users will need to agree to allow Yahoo! to transfer data over to AVOS. Yahoo said that the current Delicious platform will continue to function until July 2011.

You have probably already received an email from Yahoo! announcing the acquisition and inviting you to transfer your bookmarks. If you didn’t receive an email yet, simply login to your Delicious account and agree to the AVOS terms of service.

According to an article in the Washington Post, the transition is said to be seamless.

Hurley and Chen plan to improve the existing Delicious infrastructure and add new features to the platform. They also plan to integrate the platform into their new venture AVOS, an online social discovery service.

“We’re excited to work with this fantastic community and take Delicious to the next level,” said Chad Hurley, CEO of AVOS. “We see a tremendous opportunity to simplify the way users save and share content they discover anywhere on the web.”

Search Engine Land reported today that AdSense for feeds is now available to all Google publishers. Barry Schwartz, news editor at Search Engine Land, wrote:

I noted at the Search Engine Roundtable that many folks are buzzing about the new feature at several discussion forums. It appears to me that this beta offering, is now open to all, if not, most Google AdSense publishers.

Now Adsense publishers can run Ads in their RSS Feeds. Great news! I’m very excited about this new feature.

Current Feedburner users will need to migrate Feedburner Feeds to an existing Google Account for this feature to work. Migration documentation can be found here. Unfortunately, the migration from Feedburner to Google is manual so you need to contact Google Support and supply them some info. There is no turn-around time mentioned.

According to a post published by Weblog Tools Collection, WordPress version 2.4, expected to be released by the end of January, will be skipped. The next version will be WordPress 2.5 with a scheduled release in March. The reason for the schedule change is due to some major improvements and I quote Jeffro2pt0 “some good things cooking in the oven.”