How Real-Time Data is Changing Business Optimization
Jul 14th
For a while, a big limitation of online optimization tools was their lack of real-time reporting. Google Analytics (Google Analytics), the most popular analytics service out there, can easily take a full day before displaying your data. This was acceptable back when the web was static, but as websites become more and more dynamic, the rate at which we analyze and iterate based on our collected data has dramatically increased.
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By: Jeremy Richardson heads up Business Development at Mixpanel, Inc. a real-time analytics service that helps companies understand how users behave with web applications.
Google Begins Phasing Out YouTube Accounts
Jul 14th
Existing YouTube users are now required to associate their YouTube accounts with Google’s cross-site account system. New users are already required to do so, but Google is trying once and for all to phase out the pre-Google account system that’s left over from the days before The search giant purchased the video sharing site.
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Common Netuette Questions
Jul 14th
The ground rules for online courtesy gelled sometime in the late ’90s: Don’t swear on public forums. Zip large files before sending. AVOID WRITING IN CAPS, AS IT IS RUDE TO CYBERSHOUT.
Today, as we spend more and more hours interacting online (Americans devoted twice as many minutes to social networking and blog-reading in 2009 vs. 2008, according to a Nielsen survey), there are more opportunities than ever for awkwardness, unintentional insult, rejection, creepiness and misunderstanding.
So this week, Stuff Hipsters Hate co-blogger Andrea Bartz and I are taking a break from broad-swath advice spewage and instead playing Emily Post to our friends’ and fans’ real-life netiquette conundrums.
CALL FOR SPEAKERS
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