I have been a long time user of Google Reader. It is really convenient for monitoring all the various blogs that I want to keep track of. It has some drawbacks (like not being able to nest folders), but one that Google decided to solve was a problem I didn’t even think was a problem.
Being [...]

Alexa has long been used as a source for data on traffic for websites. Problem is, it has also long been known for being wildly inaccurate.  It is a decent indicator of trends, but not actual traffic. Well, Alexa has announced it is changing the way it counts traffic, according to a story on Techcrunch.
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I talked earlier about how I decided to move my email lists over to Aweber. As many who have done this know, it is the importing process that is the most grueling.
Today, I am on the 5th group of 2000 imports into the Aweber system. Tomorrow, they are supposed to review my email list and [...]

This looks to have "super-cool" written all over it. Sprout is a new web-based application which serves as a WYSIWYG editor for Flash applets. It was released today Tuesday at DEMO.
From the website:
Building a sprout is easy. Choose from dozens of pre-built templates or start from scratch. Drag-and-drop shapes, text, images, video, and more. [...]

Perhaps it is about time. But, I am going to attempt to make a promotional platform switch to Aweber. For those who may not know, Aweber is a company which allows you to host managed email lists. They are very well known and admired among my peers and primarily for one reason: reliable deliverability. Here [...]

Most of us know about Google Analytics, the web statistical package from Google. Well, it has an API, and one programmer named Nicolas Lierman has developed a desktop application using Adobe AIR to bring your Analytics reports to your desktop. Very cool, I say! He is getting ready to release as a public beta, [...]

OK, after a couple of posts which discuss the impact of Facebook on the web, let’s get down to “brass tacks” here and see what Facebook is all about at the ground level. After all, like about 150,000 people do every day, I recently created a Facebook profile. On the surface, it appears like most [...]

It really was only a matter of time. Youtube is launching new ads that appear IN the videos. Is this rubbing some users the wrong way? You bet.
Better than Preroll?
As online video gets so popular (and Youtube is the current king in the arena), more emphasis is going to shift to video advertising. Youtube, particularly, [...]

Well, if you are a Skype user, you are probably now well aware that they experienced a widespread service outage on Thursday of last week. I was not trying to use Skype during the outage, but reports are that people were having problems logging into the network as well as consistent notifications of IMs not [...]

A few days ago, I posted an article saying that I got “Dugg”, meaning I got an article onto Digg.com and it sent me a big traffic spike. This was for an article called “Can Linux Replace Windows?” published over on PC Mechanic. I thought I would share with you the stats from the Digg [...]