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“Google Analytics offers a way to track marketing campaigns by giving them unique markers, these are normally part of a URL for example example.com?utm_campaign=mycampaign &utm_medium=banner&utm_source=otherdomain.com”
Monthly Archives: December 2007
links for 2007-12-25
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“Which startups are worth paying attention to in the coming year? [Wired] picks 10 companies that should be making significant strides in 2008.”
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“TV viewership down at NBC by 11%, at CBS by 10%, ABC down 5%”
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“Sierra Club’s “Mr. Green” just did all the geeky math to debunk this myth once and for all.”
links for 2007-12-24
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“…blending of the desktop and the Web through deeper integration of the browser with online services.”
links for 2007-12-23
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“Companies should only collect sensitive data for behavioral advertising if they obtain express consent from the consumer.”
links for 2007-12-22
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“Do you want to see which checkout tactics are most used by successful online retailers? How does your conversion rate stack up to those who employ similar tactics? Does a shorter checkout process really decrease shopping cart abandonment?”
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“A five year old bet was settled last night between the New York Times executive Martin Nisenholtz and Web 2.0 Founding Father Dave Winer. Five years ago Winer bet Nisenholtz that blogs would top the New York Times in Google search results for the top 5 n
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10. “Mommy, that gingerbread man is asking me to eat him.â€
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“Released just several weeks ago, The Story of Stuff has already enjoyed 416,760 unique visitors. Its makers hope that Stuff might similarly leave a lasting impression that spurs people to rethink their role in a pollution-based economy.”
links for 2007-12-19
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“It is our great pleasure to offer, free of charge, electronic versions of all back issues of Release 1.0.”
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“IIPImage is an Open Source light-weight client-server system for the remote viewing of very high-resolution images.”
links for 2007-12-18
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2007 News pictures from Reuters
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“In advance of their new kids’ album, Here Come the 123s, perennial geek music favorite They Might Be Giants have a new weekly podcast for kids.”
links for 2007-12-16
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Very Borg-ish “It’s a network made of hundreds of thousands of cheap servers … the cloud regenerates as it grows, almost like a living thing.”
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“It wouldn’t be a surprise to see Google get into the pure utility computing business, but it would certainly accelerate the development of the computing-on-demand industry immensely, adding to its legitimacy and drawing in other big players.”
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“a high-level look at some of the different ways that organizations have attempted to use social media to connect with customers over the past couple of years.”
links for 2007-12-15
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“Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability
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“…free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it.”
links for 2007-12-14
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“Now we also want to share the benefits of our work by enabling other social sites to use our platform architecture as a model. In fact, we’ll even license the Facebook Platform methods and tags to other platforms.”
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“depending on where you live and where on the Internet you shop, buying things online could actually be worse for the environment than hitting your local mall.”
links for 2007-12-13
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“The more complex the app; the less viral it was. The simplest apps spread the fastest. The more complex the app the higher the time spent by users on the canvas pages.”
links for 2007-12-12
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“When struggling with stagnant growth—as many of us are today—do you look to acquisitions, aggressive marketing, or new technologies to rev up your revenues? If so, you may be missing a much more reliable way to outperform your competition—operation
links for 2007-12-09
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“Record visitors’ every action as they browse your website. Watch movies to understand visitor behavior, gain valuable insights and improve your website’s usability.â€
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listing of office 2.0 applications and services
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Scrabble word finder is a free word search utility that can be used as help to arrange letters of any configuration into all possible combinations
links for 2007-12-07
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“Identify your company’s innovation fulcrum—the number of offerings that would optimize both revenues and profits.”
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“Complexity is the cumulative by-product of organizational changes, big and small, that over the years weave complications (often invisibly) into the ways that work is done.”
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“Here are three ways to get to $50m in revenue as an online media business; indulge me in some math:”
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“The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. To see the Chart API in action, open up a browser window and copy the following URL into it: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=200×125&chd=s:helloWorld”
links for 2007-12-05
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“One-time events like the Olympics and the election add another $6 billion, not to be repeated. Discount that amount, and take away the growth of online, and you’ll see a traditional ad market that’s shrinking, not growing.”
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“According to this BusinessWeek story, Verizon is now supporting Android.”
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“how to configure your domain provider to use Amazon S3 for simple, scalable media hosting.”
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The Web 2.0 “bubble” had it coming. A Silicon Valley music video by the Richter Scales.