Facebook vs. Linked In
Valleywag today compares Facebook vs. Linked In. I’ve been thinking about the same thing lately. I have hundreds of emails waiting to be answered (I answered a bunch yesterday, but it just caused MORE email to come back in so now I’m behind again — thankfully I’ll be offline in a plane headed to a BEA event in Atlanta so I’ll have lots of time to answer emails).
New Version of Google Analytics Launched
Google today is launching a much-improved interface for Google Analytics, according to Andy Beal. Andy has screenshots of the new interface (which I cannot access as of this writing), which has much bolder graphics to enable clearer to understand graphs, email reports, customizable dashboards so you get the data you want, and plainer language used to describe part of the interface.
Google Analytics Receives Upgrade
Google has rolled out a new version of its Google Analytics. The new version was announced today at the EMetrics Summit in San Francisco.
BostonNOW Works Out Bugs, Prints Blogs
It had a rough start, but BostonNOW, a newspaper that prints the words of some local bloggers, is at last up and running. Or perhaps, to be more in character with BostonNOW’s Paul Revere logo, “up and riding” would be a more accurate description.
Absolute Gobbledegook
Everyone knows that in marketing the really big dollars are shepherded around by the media boys, the likes of Mindshare and Starcom.
Thailand Lawyers Up In Anti-YouTube Crusade
About a month ago, the government of Thailand blocked YouTube; all of YouTube was inaccessible in all of Thailand, and the ban has remained in place all this time. But that apparently wasn’t enough: Thailand now intends to sue the video-sharing site.
Might Gmail Be Moving to Unlimited Storage?
The FON blog reprinted a letter from FON CEO Martin Varsavsky about them moving from Microsoft to Linux. It includes this portion (emphasis mine):
Newspaper Web Sites Attract Growing Audience
Newspaper Web sites are doing well and their audience is growing at close to twice the rate of the overall online audience, according to new data from the Newspaper Association of America.
Microsoft Promoting Email To Advertisers
The opening of Windows Live Hotmail also comes with a push from Microsoft as the company tries to sway more advertisers to the product.
Mom’s Guide To Social Marketing
Your mother, if she did her job right, taught you everything you need to know about how to get along in the world and how to get ahead in it. When we were kids, we thought these rules were silly, but later we learned her advice was pretty valuable. In honor of Mother’s Day (May 13), we’ve put her wisdom to work in online marketing.