Measuring Online Engagement: What Role Does Web Analytics Play? | Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik (tags: analytics engagement) Mobile Opportunity: Nokia, the OS company Good analysis of the Nokia purchase of TrollTech (tags: google nokia mobile trolltech) Texting for Votes - WSJ.com Obama uses SMS messaging as part of its campaign (tags: sms obama politics […]
February 7th, 2008 | Published in Bookmarks
During CES, NewsGator has released its RSS readers for Mac and PC for free. On the Mac, it means that NetNewsWire, my favorite RSS reader and the tool I’ve relied on every day for years, is now free. For PC users, FeedDemon is now free. Go download it. Why a desktop RSS reader? Nick Bradbury […]
January 27th, 2008 | Published in RSS, Web Development | 2 Comments
Nirvanix - Home Alternative to amazon s3 and ec2 services (tags: amazon s3 ec2 cloud grid storage) Nourish – RSS to Email Service – Blog Powered Newsletters “RSS feed from content you publish (like a blog), and convert it into an automated email newsletter your readers can subscribe to.” (tags: rss newsletter email aggregator feedburner) […]
December 20th, 2007 | Published in Bookmarks
I’m catching up on a backlog of RSS feeds. I’ve got a few posts highlighting news that I missed. Hopefully it won’t be too out of date to be relevant. Let’s start with two bits of news to pass along regarding site performance: Study: Web Will Slow by 2010 — The increase in video usage […]
December 16th, 2007 | Published in Site Performance, Web Development
Repoze Repoze integrates Zope technologies with WSGI and reusable Python middleware. (tags: zope plone python) FriendFeed FriendFeed makes it easy to keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet. (tags: aggregator riverofnews blogs feeds) Finetoothcog: About Wow, bike theft in Portland is a huge […]
5 Months Later: Twitter Rocks. Facebook Bores.
After hearing such a buzz about Twitter and Facebook at Web Visions 2007, I decided to give them both a try. Five months later, the results are completely unexpected to me: Twitter seems indispensable and Facebook completely ignorable. My initial impressions were very different. Facebook had a clear purpose and reason. While I’ve never got […]
October 16th, 2007 | Published in Community, Emerging Technology, Social Networks | 1 Comment
Rad Geek’s Projects » FeedWordPress RSS to new post in wordpress (tags: wordpress rss plugin aggregator)
October 1st, 2007 | Published in Bookmarks
Repaying Guy Kawasaki — Truemors Site Optimization Analysis
I owe Guy Kawasaki a lot even though I’ve never met him. A month ago, I watched a video where he talked about starting a business to make meaning versus making money. That video came at just the right time for me and led me on a new path in my life. So I’m very […]
September 29th, 2007 | Published in Design, Site Performance, Web Development | 12 Comments
Rick Turoczy marks one month of covering the Portland technology community on his blog Silicon Florist. I’ve come to rely on his blog and tend to look at his posts as soon as he notes them on his twitter account. Because of Silicon Florist, I’ve attended interesting local events like last night’s meeting on Implementing […]
September 12th, 2007 | Published in Business, Community, Emerging Technology, Portland | 2 Comments
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