Today, Krishna Bharat, the creator of , that Google News has been taken out of beta! For me, I read Google News for a year without notice that it is still in beta. The great part of Google is to allow us to customize things and recommend the next best thing beside the content. That is applied to Google News by now. If you sign up for Personalized Search, the recommended news stories will be highlighted just below the top news stories on the page. Cool!

This site is powered by Drupal. This site is hosted in Thailand. I am a Thai. That"s why I want this site to be able to provide information in Thai as well as user interface. Fortunately, Drupal is already supported localization. I am keen to translate it myself if noone do it right now. Though I am not the first one who want to translate Drupal into Thai, SoftwareBank seems to be the first one but not released any files yet. Anyway, I am welcome anyone who want to translate. I just want to use it no matter what who translate it.

Search Keywords Module is written for extracting keywords from referers which are major search engines, e.g., and Technorati. This module aims to help site administrators to see how visitors find your content based on search keywords or tags.

If IP to Country Module exists and is enabled, visitor"s country flag will be shown in addition to just IP address for each entry.

This module is submitted to drupal.org and waiting for approval.

IP to Country Module is a module for Drupal which provides APIs for obtaining country information such as country code, country name, and flag by given IP address. This module could be used to display real-time geo location in addition to just plain IP address.

IP to Country Module is currently submitted to drupal.org and waiting for approval. For now, you could obtain it directly from CVS at http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/ip2cc/. Issues and suggestions are welcome to submit at http://drupal.org/node/45806. You could try to test this database at product/ip2cc/demo.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced it has agreed to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, Inc., a Newport Beach, Calif.-based digital solutions provider for the radio broadcast industry.

dMarc connects advertisers directly to radio stations through its automated advertising platform. The platform simplifies the sales process, scheduling, delivery and reporting of radio advertising, enabling advertisers to more efficiently purchase and track their campaigns. For broadcasters, dMarc"s technology automatically schedules and places advertising, helping to increase revenue and decrease the costs associated with processing advertisements.

Ping is one of the most a-must mechanism for interactive web community and blogging platform. Drupal comes with ping.module which periodically pings to pingomatic.com. However, sometimes you might want to specify a list of pinger URLs that pingomatic don"t support or pingomatic may be too busy for you. To satisfy this requiremnt, David Herron suggested to modify ping.module directly.

Fortunately, Richard Eriksson submitted a patch for configurable settings. That patch is for Drupal 4.6.x so I adapted that patch to work properly on Drupal 4.7.x. Download the patch from the drupal site or see below.