The last couple months have brought a growing chorus of complaint about the aggressive, cavalier attitude displayed by the dominant Web companies — especially Facebook and Google — regarding member information and privacy. MediaPost Publications Google Goes Opt-Out On Geotargeting 14/06/2010.
This is the first part of a two part deep dive guest post about using Multiple Custom Variables written by Allaedin Ezzedin from E-Nor a Google Analytics Certified Partner in Northern California. Google Analytics Blog: The Power of Multiple Custom Variables.
Video Interview via TechCrunch. An excellent interview well worth a watch about, mobile pones, FaceBook and the iPad.
Microsoft Agrees With Apple And Google via TechCrunch. It would seem that companies are beginning to realise what we web people have been saying for a while now – the future is Html 5. The fact that Microsoft, Apple and Google have agreed is that historic or have I moved to a parallel universe? Just need the [...]
and so it begins - New Malware Attack Targets iPad Users [ALERT].
Congrats, Facebook. You’ve made every media pundit sound like the female leads in “Clueless,” forcing us to use the word “like” every fourth word: “So, like, now you can like every webpage, and then like it on Facebook, and then like Facebook pages, and you can like what your friends like, and it’s, like, awesome.” [...]
When Google announced that it would start considering a Web sites speed as one signal to rank pages in search results the Google Webmaster Central blog pointed to several tools that a webmaster could use to see how quick their sites loads. Bill Slawski tells us about two tools, Firefox add-ons, that work with Firebug. [...]
Just seven months after first launching Facebook Lite, the company has decided to shut the service down. Facebook Lite was a simplified version of the site which was supposedly “optimised for people with slow connections” but apparently not enough people were using it. via Facebook Shuts Down Facebook Lite.
Amidst a crisis in national health care, consumers say health and related product Web sites are as vital to their well-being as physical interactions with health care providers. That’s according to a new study of 1,350 consumers by direct marketing agency Epsilon, which found that 40% of online consumers use social media for health information [...]
Gmail Labs, the “Settings” section featuring optional, experimental features for Googles webmail program has just received two new additions: “message sneak peek” and “nested labels.” Now the sneak peek we definitely like – it lets you preview a message without opening it so you can take immediate action. Handy! via Is Gmail Giving Up on [...]
