Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
When I meet with clients, I am always astounded by the strength of the silos that exist inside companies. Business, Marketing, IT, Server ops, Development, Network ops, Finance. In the same house, sniping and plotting to ensure that their team has the most power.
Or so it seems to the outsider.
Organizations are all fighting over the [...]
In: Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org
2 Sep 2008When I re-introduced my five articles on Web Performance Concepts last night, I had forgotten than I had already written two additional articles in the series.
Web Performance, Part VI: Benchmarking Your Site
Web Performance, Part VII: Reliability and Consistency
Look for Parts VII and IX in the next few days.
In: Commentary| Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org| Work
31 Aug 2008Two years ago I created a series of five blog articles, aimed at both business and technical readers, with the goal of explaining the basic statistical concepts and methods I use when analyzing Web performance data in my role as a Web performance consultant.
Most of these ideas were core to my thinking when I developed [...]
In: Immigration
17 Dec 2007Landed in the US on a one-day business trip today. The family is enjoying Christmas with the grandparents in Victoria, BC, and I need to work remotely to cover the time.
I flew into Seattle for a one-day trip, with my brand-new Advanced Parole documents. Figured it would be speedy.
90 minutes later, they let someone who [...]
In: Life
3 Nov 2007Part of the problem with making a lot of East to West trips across the US is that the flights back are a nightmare for timing. You either lose most of a day or have to take a red-eye.
Well, taking the red-eye has only one advantage: you get to camp in the airline lounge and [...]
My colleague Roger went on his first business road trip last week.
It was from hell. He spent some time detailing the whole hellish experience here.
On November 14-15, I am travelling with Roger to Columbus, OH. I have promised to make it a much more…enjoyable experience.
Technorati Tags: travel, business, bad trips, Los Angeles
In: RANTING
9 Sep 2007In today’s Boston Globe, there is an article discussing why Facebook went to the Valley instead of staying in the Boston area (article online).
Having now lived in both areas for nearly equal amounts of time, I can tell you that there are substantial differences between them. People from Boston may violently disagree, but I have found [...]
Thoughts on the China Market
In: Commentary
1 Sep 2008At the The China Vortex, Paul Denlinger discusses how there is no unified “China market”, no monolithic, simplistic, single-minded Goliath that the rest of the world is trying to deal with. While I do not have the depth of on the ground experience that Mr. Denlinger has (I have not yet been blessed with the [...]