Leading our day is an excellent post on First Round Review. They talk about practical frameworks for beating burnout. This topic gets talked about a lot, but burnout is very real for a lot of people. Google Cloud Platform announced the beta availability of Ruby on Google App Engine. Honestly, this feels like a late… Read More Geek Reading May 6, 2016 #1100
A post on Mozilla Hacks leads our day as they announce experimental support in multiple browsers for WebAssembly. This is a big milestone and could have a significant impact on website performance. Google Analytics announces their 360 Suite, a set of analytics applications for premium subscribers. It is good to finally see Google put some… Read More Geek Reading March 16, 2016 #1064
Unless you were not reading any technology news, you heard that Google finally announced Google +1. Google’s social networking and social features have been rumored for what seems like forever. Now we finally get to see some pieces of their grand social plan. This first piece allows you to “recommend” search results and have your… Read More Google +1 Is Just The Beginning
As an internet user and developer, I tend to hear the words “internet marketing” and “online marketing” fairly frequently on social media, forums and on blogs. Obviously, I have a blog and have worked with web analytics, so some of the topics are somewhat familiar to me. However, I never really knew what “online marketing”… Read More Online Marketing, The 36 Hour Course
I was recently looking at Google Analytics and the data for this blog. For whatever reason, I was only looking at a two day span in the recent past, and I was focused on search keywords. One search caught my attention because it was short and was not one of the typical searches in this… Read More Processes Do Not Fail, People Do
It is interesting how the technology news industry works. Most of the time we see a lot of reprints of press releases, but recently we saw a ton of posts due to a single Twitter update. Kevin Rose dropped a rumor, and every major tech blog has covered it. Is Google Me for real? Is… Read More What Google Me Needs To Succeed
In my last post, I had a little rant about the Google Analytics Opt-out add-on. Obviously, I am a little disappointed in the direction, but I have a general rule that I like to live by, “Don’t just complain about the problem, give me a solution.” There is an inherent difficulty of providing timely content… Read More 25 Free Google Analytics Alternatives
In the wake of the various privacy problems we have seen with Google and Facebook, both companies have been trying to find a way to get some good privacy publicity. One of the many things that people complain about is how much information sites track about you when you visit. Google has decided that it… Read More Google Analytics Throws A Bone To Privacy Zealots
For whatever reason, Google has been pushing some fascinating new releases and updates lately. I am not sure if this is a rush of work prior to holiday vacations or increased competition, but in any case I like what is happening in most cases. Yesterday, Google had another batch of releases for us. First, there… Read More Google Shows Us The Future
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