Entries Tagged as 'google'
Google Analytics now with 300% more granularity!
Imagine, just imagine, my delight when I went my Google Analytics page yesterday and discovered some buttons over the graph that said Hour, Day, Week and Month. Are you done imagining? Good. I hope it was a lot, because I was pretty psyched. That’s one of the key features that’s really been missing from GA [...]
OpenSocial Foundation?
Huh, just came across Yahoo’s announcement on their blog that they’re forming the OpenSocial Foundation with Google and MySpace. The goal of this brand spankin’ new foundation is to “ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.”
I am of mixed minds about this. Well, [...]
Categories: google · social networks · yahoo
Google Analytics Benchmarks
UPDATED: Fri Mar 28 16:34:35 EDT 2008
A bit ago Google Analytics quietly put in a new feature that you could opt into - their benchmarks. It was going to, in aggregate, show you some stats comparing your site’s performance to a jury of its peers. So, dutifully, I signed up but all I got was [...]
Google, online ads and the economy
It’s no secret that Google is an advertising company. An online advertising company to be specific. Sure it has other things going, it’s hosted apps are doing pretty well and it’s struggling to find it’s hook into offline advertising - but as of now they don’t add up to a revenue stream that actually matters [...]
OpenSocial moves forward
Huh, well, it’s pretty cool that MySpace has opened up it’s OpenSocial action with AppGallery. I have to admit that I didn’t expect such a big player to go live with OpenSocial so soon, so that’s pretty great. I’m a skeptic and continue to be a skeptic on this, but I’d sure love to see [...]
Categories: facebook · google · social networks · yahoo
Working for the big boys
I was thinking about the big tech companies… mostly the ones I kinda watch - so Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple. Recently it seems like there’s been a lot of shifts in the power dynamics of all of these places and with that shift in power came shifts in hiring patterns - at least as [...]
On Captchas, bots v. humans
Over the past several weeks there was a little tempest in a little teacup about Google’s Captchas finally being broken. It was the lone holdout among the big boys - the rest having fallen much sooner. The core problem being - as Captchas fail spam grows - it allows the spammers to grab more fake [...]
RSS Subscriber Habits
It’s been 5 months now since I started tracking RSS subscriptions on Google Analytics. I thought I knew what I was going to see based on how I use RSS. I was so very wrong… While my site gets neither a ton of traffic nor a ton of subscribers there’s a reasonable amount of data [...]
Staying on top of things
Part of my job is keeping on top of what’s going on in technology - it changes very quickly and it’s important to have a reasonable idea of at least the broad strokes of the wider industry. Also, it’s key to know what’s going on in the animal kingdom - I’m never going to close [...]
Google Pagerank is Perplexing
Huh. Google. So. I spend some amount of time thinking about Google and Pagerank and what not, I am not by any stretch of the imagination an SEO expert, but I know some little tidbits about it. This very blog was created partially as a means of learning more about such things. I’ve experimented a [...]
