Category Archives: Services

Google News Algorithms Get It Wrong

Google News is a great service, probably the single best feature of Google News is that it aggregates news stories from numerous sources into one place and then condenses them, so as a user you don’t need to be bothered … Continue reading

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Automattic Account Management

Automattic, the fine folk behind the WordPress blogging engine, wordpress.com and Akismet have started merging accounts between wordpress.com and Gravatar. Toward the start of 2006, I signed up for an account with wordpress.com and for obvious reasons, I’ve never needed … Continue reading

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Google Analytics Benchmarking Verticals

In March, Google announced a new feature for Google Analytics named Benchmarking. One of the most compelling reasons to opt-in to the benchmarking component of Google Analytics is to compare how your sites perform against other sites. Once the data … Continue reading

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Google Analytics Ecommerce Outage

Six weeks ago, along with colleagues from my work place – we implemented Google Analytics Ecommerce functionality within a handful of sites.* The statistics had been pouring into Google Analytics and then around April 25, same time that Australia has … Continue reading

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Gaming Google Reader For Higher Click Through Rates

Everyone looking to promote their web sites are always looking for ways to get more traffic, higher click through rates and better conversion rates (whatever a conversion might represent). For a long time, publishers around the world were looking at … Continue reading

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Detecting Duplicates Within XML Feeds

At the end of January, I commented on and offered a suggestion to the Google Reader team about how to improve their product by removing duplicate feed items. At the time, I didn’t think to post a screenshot to aid … Continue reading

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Google Analytics Benchmarking

Google have announced a new feature for Google Analytics named Benchmarking. The Google Analytics Benchmarking service is still in its beta phase, however aims to allow analytics users to compare or benchmark their web sites against other web sites. The … Continue reading

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Django Friendly Hosting

If you’re about to purchase hosting for your Django application, everything you’ll need to make a good decision is in one place at Django Friendly. Ryan Berg is the man behind Django Friendly and put together the site as a … Continue reading

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Google Account Signin With CAPTCHA

Tonight I was presented with a Google login page which was different in a few ways: size and shape of the control were different instead of using an in page control, it took me to a completely new page required … Continue reading

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