Recently Guy Kawasaki revealed a new idea in social news, Truemors. A site designed to share rumors, news and gossip.Some on the web scoffed at this idea while others just scratched their heads. The idea of giving away gossip and rumors for free does not sound like the web 2.0 way to me. What possible…
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Do you Stumble?
Do you use StumbleUpon? I have been using StumbleUpon off and on for a few years now. I even became a donating member back before they got gobbled up by eBay.My StumbleUpon ProfileOne of the great things about Stumbling is that you can tell StumbleUpon what sort of sites you want to see and it…
How To: Increase your page views and lower your bounce rate like the pros
The web is moving away from looking at web site hits as an indicator of popularity. Some sites are even putting less of an emphasis on page views. Do you know what the new metric is? It’s all about time on site and your bounce rate.Time on site is simple, it is the amount of…
Why you need more than one stat package
People who monetize their websites know that the first thing an advertiser is going to want to know is how heavy their traffic is. Not everyone gets thousands of hits every day but a good blog should be in the one thousand range most days. An excellent blog will be in the five to ten…
Stop complaining about your bandwidth
>I work in Telecom and a lot of people ask me about DSL and faster forms of data lines. The most common complaint I get from people is, “why is my upload speed so low?”The simple answer is that when DSL was designed the average Internet user downloaded far more data than they uploaded. DSL…
Upgraded Wii browser will not be free forever
Back in December Nintendo offered a trial version of the Opera Internet browser to all Wii owners. All you had to do was go into he shopping channel and download it. After months of testing and user feedback Nintendo developers have made a number of improvements.Improvementsimproved zooming and scrollingan improved zoomed fontshortened startup timesquicker access…