Another insightful post by the Google Analytics team today explaining how to capture demographics data into custom variables and then segment the demographics data by visits, goals, and revenue. We have highlighted a couple of the steps below: (more…)
Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Gaining Better Visitor Information With Demographics Data
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Google’s New OS Poised To Be The Next Windows Rival
Thursday, July 9th, 2009As I’m fairly well known for my distrust and criticism of all things Google, so it probably comes as something of a surprise that I’m REALLY looking forward to a Google Operating System … allow me to explain …First off I’m a big fan of cloud computing, there are very few desktop apps
Building Application With Cloud As The Target Platform
Thursday, June 25th, 2009When I talk about architecting in the cloud, I am referring to building composite applications or services from scratch with the cloud as the target deployment platform. So as you read this post think about an enterprise application or collection of services build for the cloud. In previous posts I have referenced a hybrid cloud model like the one below:
Microsoft And IBM To Have Key Announcements At JavaOne
Friday, May 29th, 2009Businesses Are Moving Towards SaaS
Thursday, February 19th, 2009Here are several excerpts from an an article by Steve Evans about recent research regarding the use of Software as a Service (SaaS) in small and mid-sized enterprises, SMEs turning towards SaaS:
New research by Really Simple Systems, a UK-based hosted CRM vendor, has revealed that small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly embracing hosted applications. (more…)
Real-Time Collaborative Text Editing With EtherPad
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008EtherPad is a collaborative, real-time text editor created by, among others, two ex-Google employees*. An EtherPad document is quickly set up without any need for registration.
You can then share the URL of the document, and others who will visit that page will then be able to see, in real-time, whatever you’re typing**. This has an interesting feel to it because there’s no “security buffer” as in typical chat programs: every letter you write will be shown as you write it, including occasional errors before you fix them. (more…)