Working on Blog Stickiness
Still working on getting your blog readers to stick around? If you’re on WordPress, you’re in luck. Technosailor’s Aaron Brazell has compiled a list of plugins designed to help improve your blog’s stickiness. What do these plugins do?
Why You Don’t Need Web Analytics
How many saw that headline and heaved a sigh of relief? “Oh good,” you thought, “one less thing on my to do list.”
Web Analytics World has 21 reasons that you do not need web analytics. Any of these sound like you or your clients?
Mahalo To Curate Web Search
Substantial buzz has accompanied Jason Calacanis’ startup debut of Mahalo, a search site with human editors refining the results for the currently 4,000 top search terms.
“Mahalo To Curate Web Search”
Google Gears Grind Out Web Apps
Google announced an open source browser extension that enables web applications to run offline.
NYPost.com Suffering DNS Issue
Attempts to visit the New York Post’s website are being redirected to another domain, WebFile.com, and the Post’s technical company doesn’t want to talk about it.
Ooga Labs Cooking In Creative Secrecy
Google’s known as the company with a “different” kind of corporate culture. Call Ooga Labs “really different,” then – these guys play Calvinball, a game in which “the only permanent rule . . . is that you can’t play it the same way twice.” Between matches, Ooga’s employees apparently work on stuff like search engines and social networks.
Wireless Customers Keeping Their Mobiles Longer
People are keeping their cell phones longer. The average amount of time a person owns a cell phone has increased by 5 percent since fall of 2006, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 U.S. Wireless Mobile Phone Evaluation Study.
The study found that people are keeping their mobile handsets for an average of 17.5 months, which is an increase from 16.6 since November of 2006. The increase in ownership is about equal among major hand set brands.
More on Microsoft’s Surface Computing
I talked with Microsoft’s Surface computing team today. Here’s some more details I learned.
Webcasts from Google Developer Day
As you may know, tomorrow (May 31st 2007) Google will hold a developer day in different locations around the world. If you can’t make it, you can watch the developer day webcasts for Mountain View and London – and if you do make it, please add your photos and other impressions in the forum thread.
According to a Google press release, the webcasts will include:
Making a Living Blogging
Today’s question comes from Joe Tao who asks:
“Is it a truth, based on your experience, that anyone can make a living blogging if they understand how SEO works”
OK it’s a bit of a big question, but the short answer is yes. However you will need to have a game plan, and here’s how I’d approach the problem.