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Analytics Shmanalytics? – A Review of Google Analytics

It’s slow. Molasses on a winter day slow, and while that’s ok sometimes, it’s surely not up to par for anything that comes out of Google’s labs. They need to fix that up plain and simple, which is probably why today, the ability to add sites to filter isn’t available:google analytics review cannot add new website

Sony BMG’s rootkit for November Boner of the Month!

(I’m starting a new category “Boner Of The Month”, to list down those wonderfully unique incidents in the tech world that you juuust can’t put into words – without thinking of the word ‘boner’ that is. My first one should’ve been the recent Microsoft Windows update that crashed PCs and opened them up to viruses, a real humdinger, but I couldn’t Google a link to the specific one I wanted because there are just so many and they happen so often! I was also afraid I might not even find one every month, but hey, the timely one below just goes to prove when it comes to committing acts of stupidity on a regular basis, you can never underestimate your fellow man.

Use.Firefox.Or.Else.

I’m not completely sure of what to make of the Explorer Destroyer movement, apparently a (over?)zealous groups of firefox user’s attempt to get people to switch from IE, making (good?) use as well of Google’s offer of $100.00 for every referral to Firefox.

Basically you slap on some code onto your site’s index page, and a IE visitor will either see a message encouraging them to download Firefox running across the top of the page (Gentle Encouragement option), a splash page before seeing your site, encouraging them to download Firefox and a link to continue on to your site (Semi-serious option), or IE users will see a message stating that they need to download and install Firefox to view your site, no ifs or buts about it (Dead Serious option).

Gadgets Galore

Me and Digital Exchange finally got our collective acts together to have all the gadgets I’m supposed to review over the following weeks delivered in one go. Not an easy task granted time and distance (they’re in Makati and I’m in Antipolo), the reported difficulty in dealing with the stores involved, occasional deadline issues and other nitty gritty details. Again, this is part of a 9 gadget writeup-fest to promote Digital Exchange (Glorietta 3), and so far I’ve finished with the Samsung SGH-e730, the Fujifilm F-810, and the iPod Nano 2gb, which should come out next week.

So anyway, here are they are!

More On Don’t Be Evil

After having read a lot about Google for an article I did that came out last month, I pretty much know a lot of surface information about Google guys Sergei Brin and Larry Page, or at least enough to write that article.

I just read a new one here though, http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1869450_1,00.html, and it helped answer some of the questions I was thinking of in relation to ads, and how it fit in on Brin and Page’s “Don’t Be Evil” slogan.

birthday thoughts

Frustratingly enough, it took Buy and Sell a whole hour to lay out a simple 3 line text-only ad, and I have to admit my patience was fairly tested when the designer kept insisting on skewing and stretching the text to “fill up the space para sulit”. I’m everything for making the most out of my investment, but jeez how hard is it to type, as in literally just type the URL, “free classifieds” and another line of text.

Could we have that in writing?

How about open-source sofware you say? The fact that it’s not been widely accepted by the cafes just means, to me, that it’s failed to provide a suitable alternative. I think the last paragraph in the article (it’s since been edited) where, a cafe owner threatened, more or less, that he was the BSA’s clampdown on them was “forcing them to think about open source software”, only makes me wonder one thing: Why don’t you?

PC Exchange Now Up!

I’ve finally gotten around to putting up PC Exchange, a simple classifieds site for the moment, completely devoid of any frills until I determine what else I might think of putting.