Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Commentary| Technology
3 Sep 2008Three years ago, in a post on this blog, I stated that I thought that the browser was becoming less important as more data moved into streams of data through RSS and aggregated feeds, as well as a raft of other consumer-oriented Web services.
This position was based on the assumption that the endpoint, in the [...]
In: GrabPERF
12 Aug 2007It has been at least a year since I last updated everyone on the state of GrabPERF. That’s because for most of the last year, the system has been rolling along without a hitch or a major systemic change. The last major change to the agent code was alomost exactly a year ago, when I [...]
I do not want to host my own blog.
Even if I wanted to, Wordpress.com does not make it easy to export content. This, however, is a separate discussion.
Skype and Web 2.0 (I hate the term, but I am using it) are inextricably linked.
Wordpress and Web 2.0 are inextricably linked.
Wordpress.com hates Skype. It’s that simple.
According to [...]
In: Life| Technology
8 Mar 2006I heard (via TechCrunch and Om Malik and PubSub) that there is some … transition at PubSub.
Now, I have a soft spot in my heart for PubSub, because Bob Wyman was the first person to really notice and appreciate the things I was doing at GrabPERF. I wonder what the future holds for this team.
Frankly, [...]
In: smp
9 Oct 2005Renee Blodgett confirms my fears about the Web 2.0 bubble starting. [here]
Hope you have a parachute or a soft spot to land…
In: smp
7 Oct 2005UPDATE: Geek News Central sees it another way. They see Cogent as hitching a free ride and getting thrown off the bus finally. Either way, the bacbone providers are about to realize that they aren’t the ones with power anymore.
The lawsuits from this should be interesting, and are likely going to expose many of the [...]
In: smp
2 Sep 2005Dave Sifry released a state of the search post yesterday. Between re-building my laptop and getting a client project out, I missed the original post.[here]
Thanks Dave! And continued success.
Technorati: Technorati, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
IceRocket: Technorati, Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis
In: smp
14 Aug 2005Ping-O-Matic. Weblogs.com.
Two of the sites that have seen surges in Web traffic recently.
My unsubstantiated theory is that as summer ends, Web traffic is seeing its usual surge, amplified by the new interest in blogs and Web 2.0 properties.
For the small companies who have effectively had the summer off, it’s time to re-adjust your capacity-planning estimates…upward.
Why? [...]
In: smp
13 Aug 2005Yikes!!!
Can you say capacity planning nightmare?
Technorati: Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis, ping-o-matic, pingomatic
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The Loss of Blogging Voice, or Why I removed the Ads from my Blog
In: Blogging| Commentary| The Web| Web analytics| advertising| analytics| branding| reputation| social media
11 Aug 2009I have had advertising on my blog for as long as I can remember. Except for the period of time when I hosted the site at Wordpress.com, I have always had AdSense, Chitika, or some other ad services content being contextually presented to my visitors.
Frankly, I found having ads up on my site extremely hypocritical, [...]