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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a little obsessed with Alexa rankings and their relevance (or lack of it) for measuring a website’s success. Taking a look at their pages for wolfshowl.com this evening, I discovered that I am not the first to own this domain name; according to Alexa’s WayBack Machine, from March 2002 to [...]
Testers needed
Monday, June 30th, 2008If anyone out there gets a few minutes, could you drop by Bio Nutrition? We’ve just launched a new website (the first one ever for this brand, can you believe it?) and we’ve used a new piece of software (X-Cart) to create it. Well, I say “we” - Simon’s done 95% of the work on [...]
On FireFox and the new Browser Wars
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Well, did you join the multitudes (somewhere round the 8.2m mark) that took part in “Download Day”, the amazingly successful marketing angle that’s helped get FireFox 3 onto even more computers across the world?
As could be expected, initially download day was a bit of a bust - when several million people try to download something [...]
Confused about Alexa
Thursday, May 8th, 2008I’ve never really understood why Alexa rankings are used as a guide to how popular a website is. As they themselves say that their data “may not be a representative sample of the global Internet population. To the extent that our sample of users differs from the set of all Internet users, our traffic estimates [...]
Facebook again
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008The BBC have discovered that it’s easy to write a Facebook application that will, when loaded on a users profile, harvest all sorts of information about that person and their contacts. If the BBC are the first people to think of doing this, I would be really surprised, yet there seems to be a level [...]
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