Something I recently noticed in Google Analytics is that they show "(not provided)" for many search keywords these days.  They have recently started blocking search keyword tracking for individuals that are logged in to Google for "security reasons".  This block severely limits the usefulness of Analytics for search, as webmasters have no idea what 20% or more of their visitors are finding their site with.

PayPal is a great convenience for me and a lot of others.  Unfortunately, their website user experience sucks.  Why do I need to search Google to find the pages I need on PayPal.com?

If you're selling online and have PayPal buttons created, you better bookmark the "My Saved Buttons" page, otherwise you're going to need to go five pages deep and find this small link when you want to get back to the list:

EDIT 2/2/2012: Google likes to randomly change the CSS/page structure of the Realtime Analytics page.  You can always get the updated version at the demo page I have set up (since I use it for the TV display at work and fix it when it breaks).  It has changed twice so far since this post.

I try to subscribe to security and release announcement RSS feeds in Google Reader since it's bad practice to let software become out of date, especially on a web server.  At the very least you'll know of a vulnerability and be able to patch it.  Here are some important ones I use:

Readwriteweb made a post about Wikipedia launching the "Wikilove" button that lets users show appreciation for each other.  Apparently Wikipedia is trying to ride the wave of button popularity, what with Google launching their +1 button recently and the Facebook/Twitter buttons being featured on most websites around the Internet.  

This week's links are pretty solid.  Happy birthday Internet!