tech

Google Insights more addictive than crack

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Google just unveiled Insights for Search, which is like Google Trends on steroids. The world’s most popular search engine just let us loose in their search data playground. Please, join me in analyzing some of our favorite web celebs: Julia Allison vs. Kevin Rose. vs. Jimmy Wales vs. Mark Zuckerberg (worldwide, last 2 years) Mark [...]

How to Measure Any Website’s Traffic (For Free)

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Have you ever wondered exactly who, what, and when people are visiting your website… or your competitors’ websites? Without knowing your audience it’s difficult to make improvements towards your end goal, whether that’s becoming internet famo, selling more widgets, or just getting more page views. Here are a few free analytic tools to help you [...]

Massaging the statistics

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

#1: Brad Feld recently proclaimed your analytics are very wrong, specifically referring to: issues w/ tracking “widget” usage (like embeds), a new and imprecise science at best RSS subscriber overinflation, caused by services like Google Reader auto-subscribing new signups to your RSS feed, inaccurately jacking up the subscription numbers. This discussion just points out the [...]

A peek inside YouTube’s copyright identification system

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

yawn2000 posted a rickroll vid… —— Forwarded Message From: Copyright Notice Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 01:10:52 -0700 (PDT) To: [redacted] Subject: New Video Identification Match Dear Member: This is to notify you that your video sisters kissing (twins) has been as containing content that may be owned by someone else. The material identified in [...]

Week in Tech Ish: Flickr Vids, Google App Engine, Adobe Media Player+TV

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Flickr Video: totally integrated w/i the site, but limited to 90 seconds. I dig the Vimeo-style no-chrome player, and the 90 second limit seems like a good way to encourage “enhancing” photosets rather than turning Flickr into a video community. » blog.flickr.net post Google App Engine: the big G is competing w/ Amazon by offering [...]

No, I Don’t Want to Be Your Friend

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Web analytics pros Zaaz weigh in on everyone and their mother adding “social features” to their website: One recent survey indicates 90% of businesses will add Web 2.0 features to their sites in the coming year… There’s an assumption out there that people “want to connect” with each other online… but on sites offered by [...]

How to Buy YouTube Views

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Evan Roth ran an experiment during class last semester: how many hits will $150 buy you? The rough data’s in: about 57k uniques on the page =~ about 44k views on the embedded YouTube video. The video in question being a screencast of the purchase, of course. More info: This was an experiment we did [...]