The creative team at Mozilla is excited to introduce you to a brand new initiative – the Mozilla Creative Collective! The Mozilla Creative Collective is a community of artists and designers, and is intended to be a counterpart to our development and engineering communities.

The Creative Collective is a community of artists and designers inspired by the Mozilla ideals of openness, innovation and participation.

Mozilla hopes to gain support for the Creative Collective. They have a start-off Creative challenge up already.

Design Challenge

“People and Robots, Best Friends Forever.”   More>>

Google has rolled out another tweak to its Gmail users that makes its labels work like folders. Now, you can drag emails directly to the labels. Other changes include the shift of the labels option to a new location on the left side bar. It is now located above the Chat section and you can now choose what labels you wish to see there. The other labels will of course be accessible via a drop down menu, yet another new feature addition. Sadly, the position of the Labels are fixed and you cannot re-arrange them.

The worst of the crisis has passed and the US recovery is likely to begin this autumn, Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt said.

Schmidt said the rate of jobless claims is decreasing although the absolute number is increasing, it is reasonable to be optimistic for 2010.

He didn’t want to comment on Google’s team of engineers which will have to study the technical specifications of Microsoft search engine Bing.

But he added: “Bing is a competitor. We have absolutely looked at Bing; we have actually studied what they do as Microsoft studied what Google does.”

• AOL’s (TWX) Platform-A;
• Yahoo (YHOO);
• Google (GOOG);
• ValueClick (VCLK); and
• Specific Media

Apart from the top 5, other networks that have shown the fastest growth rate are : Turn Inc., with U.S. unique visitors up 121% year-over-year to 134 million; CPX Interactive, up 88% to 130 million; 24/7 Real Media, up 48% to 148 million; Collective Network, up 47% to 130 million; and Kontera, up 40% to 73 million.

PS : This is for existing Mozilla / Firefox Campus Reps only

Are you a Mozilla Campus Rep ? Applications for the Regional Leaders programs are to be due soon. There are several exciting discussions on the Campus Reps Network. And keep reading to see how you can win a prize!

You can still apply to be a Regional Leader for the upcoming year. Applications are due at 5pm EST on Wednesday, June 17th. See the application link below for more information.
Apply to be a Regional Leader: http://bit.ly/mozcampus_regional_leader_application

There are also prizes for two lucky winners

Win a prize
Because we’re so excited about the Campus Reps Network, we’re giving away some prizes! All you have to do is be registered on the Campus Reps Network and join your regional group on the Groups page by Friday, June 19th for a chance to win.

We’re giving away one Mozilla / Firefox t-shirt and a 15″ laptop skin from Infectious. We’ll select the winners from a random drawing of all qualified Reps.

That’s it for now. Enjoy the rest of your week!

Cheers,

Jay and William

Upon searching for 2,500+ popular keywords across 400,000+ URLs, McAfee’s research concludes that “lyrics” and anything that includes “free” has the highest risk % of exposing web surfer to malware and other fraudy web sites.

Here are some more interesting facts emerging from the research:

• The categories with the worst maximum risk profile were lyrics keywords (26.3%) and phrases that include the word “free” (21.3%). If a consumer landed at the riskiest search page for a typical lyrics search, al the least, one of four results would be risky
• The categories with the worst average risk profile were also lyrics sites (5.1%) and “free” results page sites (7.3%)
• The categories with the safest risk profile were health-related search terms and also searches concerning the recent economic crisis. The maximum risk on a single page of queries on the economy was 3.5% and only 0.5% risky across all results.

Hi,

We’re writing to let you know about the upcoming launch of interest-based advertising, which will require you to review and make any necessary changes to your site’s privacy policies. You’ll also see some new options on your Account Settings page.

Interest-based advertising will allow advertisers to show ads based on a user’s previous interactions with them, such as visits to advertiser website and also to reach users based on their interests (e.g. “sports enthusiast”).  To develop interest categories, we will recognize the types of web pages users visit throughout the Google content network.  As an example, if they visit a number of sports pages, we will add them to the “sports enthusiast” interest category.  To learn more about your associated account settings, please visit the AdSense Help Center at http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=20310.

As a result of this announcement, your privacy policy will now need to reflect the use of interest-based advertising. Please review the information at https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=100557 to ensure that your site’s privacy policies are up-to-date, and make any necessary changes by April 8, 2009.  Because publisher sites and laws vary across countries, we’re unfortunately unable to suggest specific privacy policy language.

For more information about interest-based advertising, you can also visit the Inside AdSense Blog at http://adsense.blogspot.com/2009/03/driving-monetization-with-ads-that.html.

We appreciate your participation and look forward to this upcoming enhancement.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

The new layout looks like this:

The new menu looks more Web2-ish with the glossy feel. A good number of established online sites have been seen changing their look and feel recently.