October 2011
1 post
“We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we’re arrogant it’s...”
– The “Google Doesn’t Get Platforms” Family Intervention Memo
September 2011
4 posts
“NO BE CHICKEN CHICKEN LIVE IN CAGE. NO CAN HAVE PERSONALITY INSIDE CAGE. LAST...”
–
A VC: Minimum Viable Personality
“I don’t think this is really an iPad competitor. This isn’t an iPad-killer. The...”
– -Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg
Amazon creates first viable non-iPad tablet by not copying the iPad
“This service leaves open one critical question: Will Google’s flat...”
– Facebook Boldly Annexes the Web - Ben Elowitz - Voices - AllThingsD
“[P]eople turn to hits as a metric when they have no idea what they are talking...”
– How Idiots Track Success | ClickZ
August 2011
1 post
“Q: What does the future hold for you?
A: Five years ago there was no such thing...”
– Next Gen Innovators | Think Quarterly by Google
May 2011
1 post
““It’s not about building a website anymore! It’s so much cooler! It’s about...”
– I Will Never Hire a “Social Media Expert,” and Neither Should You | Peter Shankman
April 2011
4 posts
Thoughts On The New Google Analytics Interface
When I saw the magical New Version link in my Google Analytics account, I was like a kid on Christmas morning. I was wrapping up my work and about to head out the door, but ended up staying at work an extra hour and a half just to play with this new, shiny gadget.
Let me preface everything below by saying that overall I absolutely love the new interface. It’s an exciting change! However,...
“LAMP architectures are dead because few web applications want to ship full...”
– Metamarkets Blog » Blog Archive » Node.js and the Javascript Age
I can’t stand when someone proclaims that “[fill in the blank] is dead”…but this one just makes so much sense to me.
An Ode To Apture
To paraphrase the illustrious Ron Burgundy: “I love Apture. Apture-y, Apture, Apture. Here it goes, into my browser…”
I first ran into Apture during the Iran election protests in 2009. The New York Times used it in their blog posts about the protests; I thought it was incredible that I didn’t have to leave the page to watch a YouTube video or read a particular Tweet....
Meet +1: Google’s Answer To The Facebook Like... →
I’ve been Facebook “liking” junk across the intertubes for months now and Facebook has added almost no value to my experience (the *only* exception is where I liked the band Blonde Redhead and Interpol and saw they had a new concert at NYC’s Terminal 5 in May…bought tickets asap). Otherwise, what has “liking” stuff added to my Internet wanderings and...
March 2011
1 post
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/03/the-age-of-relevan... →
October 2010
2 posts
http://databases.hammerprinciple.com/browse →
What database is right for you? Check these crowd-sourced rankings.
Current Stats on Mobile Operating Systems
In the past two days I’ve come across separate reports from Admob, Nielsen and Comscore about mobile operating system usage in the United States.
Admob (May 2010 - North America)
iOs - 54%
Android - 33%
RIM - 7%
Nielsen (October 2010 - United States)
iOs - 28%
Android - 19%
RIM - 31%
Comscore (August 2010 - United States)
iOs - 24.2%
Android - 19.6%
RIM - 37.6%
The disparity...
September 2010
5 posts
Issues With Advanced Segments
The people at Google were kind enough to answer my question on the recent episode of Web Analytics TV about having different totals for goal conversions.
I needed to clarify my point since I don’t think sampling is part of the issue. I decided some screenshots would also help.
So, here is how I discovered this. I would open up the All Traffic Sources report:
Next, I go to the default...
“I can just speak as a developer, 2004 when I was coding Facebook there was no...”
– Mark Zuckerberg on the proliferation of platforms and trying to keep up with all of them.
Interview With Mark Zuckerberg On The “Facebook Phone”
“Ping is not very social and it is not really about music. It is about music...”
– Fred Wilson A VC: Ping
“Full link data now.”
– *agreed*
How The “Focus On First” Helps Hide Google’s Relevancy Problems
June 2010
1 post
“[W]e learn more from a quick failure than a slow success.”
– Doug Twiddy
Google Analytics Blog: Use Case: Twiddy & Company
May 2010
1 post
“The Diaspora* group was inspired to begin their project after hearing a talk by...”
– How about you just not visit any website, ever, then…
Nonetheless, interesting idea.
Creating a Network Like Facebook, Only Private - NYTimes.com
April 2010
2 posts
“And how ironic is it that handset manufacturers who opt to use an open Google OS...”
– We’d Rather Be Collecting Royalties on Windows Phones, But Hey, We’re Enjoying the Irony - John Paczkowski
The Multi-Lingual World
In globalizing societies, it appears increasingly advantageous to fluently speak/read/write Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, and so on.
The other day I realized I have a modification to this: in globalizing societies, especially those diving head first into information technology, it will be almost as important to be able to read/write in programming languages as well. In other words, the...
March 2010
2 posts
How To Make Google Out Of Date
I saw the TED demonstration of Microsoft Labs’ Pivot the other day. Gary Flake describes it as the point between searching and browsing information. In another video, he says to think of it as business intelligence meets a search engine.
This demonstration came at a great time for me. A side project I’ve been working on (my non-analytics/web/business reading) led me to realize the...
“Here’s what this all means in layman’s terms: Apple isn’t...”
– Does HTML5 Really Beat Flash? The Surprising Results of New Tests
January 2010
3 posts
“The iPad was pitched by Steve Jobs yesterday as a response to netbooks. It is...”
– Alex Payne — On the iPad
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– A world of hits - The Economist
Radiohead: We Rejected Digital-Only To Reach More... →
Another lesson in how not everyone is connected to the internet (or prefers to use it).
December 2009
1 post
Thoughts On Google Analytics Intelligence
Intelligence is a new feature for Google Analytics. It sounds like it sprung from a challenge by Avinash Kaushik to the GA team. Eric Peterson has called it brilliant. Stephane Hamel says it challenges traditional web analytics vendors. Jacque Warrens says that at this point, he’d pay for Google Analytics.
That’s a lot of positive buzz. So, here are some comments about this new,...
November 2009
4 posts
Google Analytic's PHP Script
I’ve been playing around with Google’s new tag builder, and checked out the PHP script they have specifically for sites geared towards mobile phones. For a number of reasons our company is more interested in anything Google Analytics/PHP.
Here’s some information we get from the javascript version of Google Analytics:
utmac UA-1-1
utmcc ...
“We’ve had the good fortune of learning from our many relationships with...”
– Michael Ferdman, founder of Firstborn, from the article Does the Industry Need Big Digital Agencies Anymore?
I laughed when I first read this; I had visions of the talented bright-eyed digital folks striking out on their own to execute campaigns and strategies as they envisioned…and then...
“We need fewer ‘three easy steps to Twitter success’ lectures. We...”
– Kevin Hillstrom: MineThatData: Analysts and Executives
A great piece about the lack of leadership from analytics vendors, corporate executives and analysts.
Help Me On Some Homework Please?
I need some help making sure I did my analysis correctly. Our clients have seen a pick up for their market recently (real estate), and I am wondering if what I think I found is correct: I’m basically working on inferring intent. We have a few months of data now, and I want to know what keywords tend to attract people that look at higher-priced product.
I went to the content section,...
October 2009
4 posts
Digital Strangelove
Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Internet), via AVC.com
Unboxing Bing - Advertising With Microsoft
I may be spoiled because my company was already doing search marketing years ago, so I didn’t have to set up the Google and Yahoo accounts. I’ve been tasked with setting up a Bing account though, and thought I’d share my thoughts along the way.
Billing
Billing is annoying. We don’t have a giant budget so we can not get invoiced, but we have to spend X number of dollars...
How You Could Be Utilizing Web Analytics More... →
A Future of Entertainment
I get excited when I see other people thinking the way I do, as in, when they share my vision of the future. The biggest reason why is it’s a small confirmation that I am in fact not crazy. This is a relief :P
Fake Steve Jobs wrote an article for Huffington Post giving his take on what we will experience with the new GodTablet iTablet. In the persona of Fake Steve, he shockingly compliments...
August 2009
6 posts
Stats Confirm It: Teens Don’t Tweet →
How Netflix gets your movies to your mailbox so... →
I was always curious about this…
“Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old...”
– Chris Ahearn
Why I believe in the link economy
For Families Today, Technology Is Morning’s First... →
This is totally my family…minus the bickering because we’re too sleepy to care :P
July 2009
5 posts
My Guess on the iTablet
So many people are talking about this I don’t even know who to link to; we’ll start with Ars Technica. It’s amazing how split people are on this though.
I’m going to grossly over-generalize and guess that the rumored iTablet is going to be the smallest but most powerful computer we’ve seen; in other words, I completely disagree with those that suggest this is going...
“I got an opportunity to swing for the fences in search.”
– Steve Ballmer
Microsoft and Yahoo are Linked Up. Now What?
“Piracy is essentially the consumer’s wish to have everything on demand. It’s not...”
– Danielle Ek, co-founder of Spotify
The Music Streams That Soothe an Industry
Second Best Dream Ever
Last night I dreamt I was playing a hand-to-hand fighting game, but the characters were stick figures. Even better, it utilized a multi-touch interface. Your fingers would get in the way of the animation a bit, but for some reason that was okay.
Too bad I don’t know how to make an iPhone app. Let alone create a video game. All I know is it’s much better than the games I found by...
TwitterGate: Out Damned Spot! →
Kara Swisher perfectly explains my feelings about TechCrunch’s handling of the stolen Twitter documents.
June 2009
6 posts
Bing Loses Out
Like others, for a few weeks I’ve been trying to use only Bing. Honestly, for my job Google takes up most of my day, so I really was just hoping to add some variety to the mix.
I can type in a rush, and today my fingers failed me; I misspelled the search [analyt ics blog] in Bing, and it returned this:
Um… “Counter Strike”? Wasn’t that the multi-player...
A Mature Web Means *Now*
[Part II of my “overdue rambles” series]
The internet as we know it was made public in the early 90’s. Basically, it hasn’t even finished college. That’s exciting.
Why does this excite me? Because it means the internet has not come close to its full potential. I am exhilarated to see what is going to happen in the next ten years. For instance, Tom Brokaw once talked...