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Website Analysis – Google Analytics

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make noise? If you have a great website, and no one goes to it, is it still a great website? The point is, if you don’t know who is going to your site, and why, you can’t adjust to your target audience.

I’ve looked at quite a few Website analysis products over the last couple of years. They have evolved from software you run on your log files, to little snippets of javascript you put on your site that report to a service provider who does all of the heavy lifting for you. Since I haven’t run an analysis on log files in a good 6 months, I’ll skip that category for today and focus on the hosted variety.

The software I’ve used the longest is Google Analytics, formerly Urchin. The fact that is now free is awesome, as I used to pay an arm and a leg for it. Read More »Website Analysis – Google Analytics

Novell Open Audio Podcasts

Novell has just announced Novell Open Audio – a series of podcasts hosted by ‘Reverend’ Ted Haeger, who spearheads Novell’s user community. The podcasts are billed as “focusing primarily on technical level discussions with product managers, engineers and others involved… Read More »Novell Open Audio Podcasts

Webserver on a stick

I ran across brswebweaver after running across a flash drive that claimed to be a portable webserver. It looks like a very handy (and free) way to have a portable test server for web developmentwhatever you need a portable web… Read More »Webserver on a stick

Free VMWare Server?

CNet predicted that “VMware… will begin giving away one of its key products for free”, and it seems to be true! The “key product” is GSX server – their “lower end” software that runs on a Windows or Linux server.… Read More »Free VMWare Server?

The Twinkies Project

T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. stands for Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations. T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. is a series of experiments conducted during finals week, 1995, at Rice University. The tests were designed to determine the properties of that incredible food, the Twinkie.

They Rule

They Rule claims to prove the existence of an elite ruling class. I don’t believe that, but it is a great example of creative data modeling. It’s very interesting they way it can connect any two companies with common board… Read More »They Rule