Leslie implemented a clever growth strategy for his online business by purchasing a large forum. After making the acquisition, he immediately went to work to grow the forum and had some pretty amazing success, more than tripling the membership base. In this article Leslie reveals how he was able to grow his forum by an [...]
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Twitter Buys Analytics Firm Smallthought for Commercial Accounts
June 11th, 2010 |
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Twitter has made it clear it wants to add analytics capabilities for its eventual paid accounts, and the microblog took a step in that direction June 10 by snapping up Smallthought Systems. Twitter acquired the startup for Trendly, which Twitter analytics lead Kevin Weil described as a "tool that helps Websites distinguish signal from noise in their Google Analytics data." Twitter has said it wants to inject analytics into commercial accounts to help marketers better reach their audiences. – Twitter has made it clear it wants to add analytics capabilities for its
eventual paid accounts, and the microblog took a step in that direction June 10
by snapping up Smallthought Systems.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Twitter has been using Smallthought’s
Dabble DB online database for …
Google Analytics Is Preparing Plug-in to Protect User Privacy
March 22nd, 2010 |
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Google is working on a browser plug-in to let users opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics. Will opting out limit the effectiveness of Google Analytics? If so, how might Google mitigate the loss of fidelity? Forrester Research analyst Joseph Stanhope expects minimal impact because most users won’t use the opt-out plug-in. In any case, the move that could mollify privacy watchdogs concerned about the company’s ravenous appetite for collecting data about users. This would be helpful in the wake of the Google Buzz backlash.
– Google is working on a browser plug-in to let users opt out of being tracked
by Google Analytics, a move that could mollify privacy watchdogs concerned
about the company’s ravenous appetite for collecting data about users.
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Analytics is the search engine’s suite of business intelligence…
Learn to Design your Blogger Page in 1 Minute
March 17th, 2010 |
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Google has added a world of new design possibilities to Blogger. If you have a Blog and you are using Blogger to publish it, you are no longer bound to some set styles. Instead, you can create a virtually unlimited number of different designs for your Blog. Google made a cool video to show you [...]
TEDTalks: Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good
July 23rd, 2009 |
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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was a surprise speaker in the first session of the TEDGlobal Conference in Oxford. In his news-making talk (see below),…