“During the first 29 days of October, 1.2 million people worldwide visited the ‘In Rainbows’ site, with a significant percentage of visitors ultimately downloading the album. The study showed that 38 percent of global downloaders of the album willingly paid to do so, with the remaining 62 percent choosing to pay nothing… Of those who [...]
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Google testing new homepage in China
November 7, 2007 – 11:09 am
I saw it on techcrunch
Beside the stupid and expected techcrunch joke about google copying yahoo design this is quite interesting. Google design has been praised endlessly regarding its simplicity of use and user focus on the search task. A white page with a form to fill in the middle … what could be better? Which [...]
Amazon’s 1-Click patent rejected by the USPTO
October 18, 2007 – 7:28 pm
This was a very famous patent and it is funny how the USPTO rejected it. More here.
Stupid msnbot FORM=LVSP and FORM=LIVSOP
October 10, 2007 – 3:42 pm
I have been seeing hits from msn and live.com searches with FORM=LVSP and FORM=LIVSOP vars. The keywords did not relate to my site and when i followed the search referrals my site did not rank in the search results. The IP of the search visitor came from a microsoft IP block and i figured out [...]
Checking site trends with del.icio.us
September 29, 2007 – 12:56 pm
There are many tools to analyze site popularity trend. You probably use Alexa, Compete, Google trends, quantcast and maybe others. But have you tried using del.icio.us ?
When you visit a site url page in del.icio.us (for example http://del.icio.us/url?url=www.google.com)
You can see who bookmarked google.com and when. Analyzing how many people bookmarked a site each month [...]
ubuntu desktop is crap
September 21, 2007 – 5:37 pm
I run windows XP and ubuntu desktop on my laptop. I use windows 99.999% of the time and it never failed me. When I run ubuntu I usualy follow the system upgrade to keep it updated. Today I needed to run ubuntu and guess what? broken, xserver doesnt load, errors, no simple solution on google. [...]
How to keep your online buzz spending 3min a day
September 20, 2007 – 6:55 pm
Buzz comes and goes. You might have a blog, a site, a product that have gotten some attention in blogs in the past but now the novelty is gone. You are old news and no one writes about you. A more popular case is if you didn’t get attention at all. You got to keep [...]
NYT to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site
September 18, 2007 – 5:10 pm
Some move.
The NYT had 227,000 paying subscribers — out of 787,000 over all — and generating about $10 million a year in revenue.
That is a lot of subscribers with terrific conversion of paid/free members. Good revenue as well.
According to compete.com they have 7.5mil per month. they need to make $0.11 per visit. Not a simple [...]
