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Yahoo Web Analytics Launched
Yahoo has launched their own version of analytics in form of Yahoo Web Analytics.. We have yet to experience the power of their reporting system which is designed to help us increase sales, reduce marketing costs and encourage visitor retention.
Yahoo Web Analytics features Include:
- Customizable Dashboards
- Custom Reports
- Advanced Campaign Management
- Real-Time Segmentation
- Live Cost Analysis
- Quickly set goals, track progress and identify danger points.
- Merchandise Reporting
- Scenario Analysis
- Comparative Reporting
- Advanced Path Analysis
- Each person and role within your company can have their own dashboard.
Real question is, is it powerful enough to match Google Analytics? It’s time to find out!
QuickTime Alternative 2.7 Download
QuickTime Alternative 2.7 has been released. If you want to watch a QuickTime file but aren’t willing to install Apple’s media player then this is the software for you. It’s a trimmed down version of QuickTime that contains only the essential components needed for playing QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.
Features:
- Quick and easy install
- Ability to make an unattended installation
- No background processes
- No unwanted stuff and other nonsense
- Smaller size
You can view the latest changelog here
Download QuickTime Alternative | Official Website
Via - Download Squad
Yahoo mash is shutting down
Yahoo Mash is shutting down as most of us already know and the service will officially be shut down on September 29th, 2008. It was an experimental social network by Yahoo! created on grounds of competition with MySpace, Facebook and Orkut but its conflict with Yahoo! 360 and lack of support and updates might have proved a little too unhealthy.
In regards to that, I’m also shutting down the Yahoo Mash Beta Invites that I used to send because it’s not use anymore. Everyone who made their profiles earlier, please save your important stuff.
Google Chrome Updates, Bugs, Issues and Stuff I realized
Google Chrome, the newest browser by google has been launched (as most of you guys know). It’s looking good, no doubt but It’s still not fully functional with all those bugs and issues that even the developers know.
First of all, some of the Known Issues that users have already submitted
- Spreadsheets - When you click in one cell, it sometimes focuses on another cell above it.
- Docs - Comments don’t work as expected
- Calendar - The day is scrolled up to midnight after you edit an event
- Calendar - If you create an all day event between Friday and Sunday, the event will be one day longer than intended.
- Docs - ‘Also editing now’ message redraws multiple times when you scroll
- The English (US) dictionary is installed by default for all languages
- ‘Find in page’ sometimes fails to find entries on very long pages and in editable text areas
- Sometimes your laptop won’t go to sleep when Google Chrome is running
- Error responses from some proxies are truncated
- Google Chrome doesn’t honor the ‘bypass proxies for these addresses’ list in the Windows’ Internet Options control panel
- Performing searches take a long time, and I see “Resolving proxy…” in the lower-left of the window
- When you open an RSS feed or xml file, it only shows the raw XML data
I downloaded Google chrome, opened couple of sites and then went to check google adsense, to my surprise I confronted this and upon some investigation I found out that Google Chrome does not support SSL client authentication.
So google adsense is a potentially harmful version of google? and according to Chrome, we should proceed with it! wow! Anyway, some stuff that should be given a small thought.
Rumor is, Google Removed all the referrals elements from Adsense last month and their main referral was Mozilla FireFox! and now suddenly, we are looking at Google Chrome? This comes to a question, is this going to affect Google’s relationship with firefox? Are they still going to fund Mozilla?
Answer is, no! This won’t affect google’s relationship with firefox that much. Why? because Last week, Google renewed a royalty deal with Mozilla, which will run through November 2011, providing the open-source organization with a new three-year lifeline. According to a amazing article by TGDaily
“Funding Mozilla remains the cheapest strategy for Google to control the Internet Explorer’s influence and market share, however, a Google web browser adds a variable to that equation that may change the outcome of the Mozilla relationship when the agreement expires in three years, especially if Chrome can capture market share quickly.
Google isn’t Mozilla’s only income source, but there is no denying that Mozilla would not be what it is today and Firefox would not look like as it does today. According to Mozilla’s most recently published tax statements (fiscal year 2006 ended December 31, 2006) reveals that Mozilla had sales of $67 million at the time, $57 million of which came from Google, because of Firefox’ use of Google as default home page and revenues from ad placements.
For now, it is business as usual and we are sure that Mozilla and market watchers will have a close eye on how Google will be leveraging its countless business relationships to push its Chrome browser. Besides the fact that it has a search market share of more than 60% in the U.S., its software is included by default on many new PCs, it has partnerships with industry giants such as MySpace and Ebay, it owns YouTube, it works on integration its software in gas station pumps there is a mobile search deal with Verizon in the works and the company is apparently interested in acquiring Digg.”
Google Chrome Press Release Video:
Update: Looks like Google Chrome won the Speed Test. (via-Cnet)
Talking about relevancy, this comic might interest you (via - Zot!)
Google Chrome Bugs (Updated - By you guys, refer to comments):
- Google Chrome Favorites Issue: Does not import most of favorites and does not import them if used the “import bookmarks” function. (by moreofless)
- Google Chrome Scroll Bug: Can’t scroll up but can scroll down (by Max Gsodam, James Delaney)
- BlueQuartz server appliance control panel doesn’t load at all with Google Chrome. Fails with “uncaught exception TypeError: Cannot call method ’scheduler_addJob’ of undefined” (By Dude)
- Typing about:% in the task bar crashes Google Chrome (By Matt)
- Unable to login iGoogle when using Google Chrome (by Vik)
- Google Chrome bugs in Vista (by jeremiah)
Update: Google tweaks Chrome licence text
Google has rescinded an article of the user agreement for its new browser, Chrome , released on Tuesday. The initial agreement claimed rights over “any Content which you submit, post or display on or through” the browser. Google reworded the agreement on Wednesday, leaving those rights in the hands of Chrome’s users. A spokesperson for Google said its user agreements were re-used and the initial claim was an oversight. (Read more @ BBC)
- How to check for Google Chrome Updates:
1. Click the Tools menu
2. Select About Google Chrome.
3. At the bottom of the window, it will check for updates.
That’s it for now but I’ll surely update this post as I face more bugs and errors. Though, I would love to hear what you have to say about Google Chrome.
Facebook finally gets rid of Scrabble
I remember reading / posting about the dispute between facebook and Scrabble which was in mid January. And today, while reading news, I confronted that facebook cuts off Scrabulous after legal complaint from Scrabble’s rights owners, Mattel Inc.
Right now, it’s been pulled off for users in Canada and United States for sure but it still remains active in India where the scrabble developers are, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, the brothers in Calcutta. This shouldn’t be surprising if you know that Both Hasbro and Mattel have been trying to promote an authorized version of Scrabble for Facebook — made by Electronic Arts Inc. in the United States and Canada and by RealNetworks Inc. elsewhere.
Source | NewsVine
Google Adsense coming in Google Analytics
Yes, this is a great news! Google Adsense click tracking data will be available in google analytics soon and you’ll have the ability to track visitors clicks on your google adsense Ads using google analytics reporting system. And all the google analytics users know that how detailed reports they confront everyday and with this enhancement you’ll actually be able to measure your adsense performance on every single page of your website.
Let’s take an example. Assume two sites - digg.com and cnn.com - have linked to a page on your website and are sending some referral traffic. Now Analytics will tell you exactly how much AdSense revenue you are making through traffic from each of these sites.
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Yahoo Buzz - It’s Official, start submitting your stories now!
Yes, Yahoo Buzz is now officially open now. You can now showcase your stories to the largest audience on the Internet.
How does it works?
- The buzz can be about anything - a great story on a major news site, an extraordinary bit from an obscure site, an intriguing video, or a fantastic blog that shouldn’t be missed.
- Instead of editors, people like you determine the top-rated stories.
In short, Yahoo buzz is similar to big social media websites like Digg and it’s algorithm might be a bit different but let’s see. If you hit their main page, you might be in for thousands of visitors in no time.
So what are you waiting for? Start Buzzing now!
Olympic size “Blue Screen of Death”
You must’ve encountered the “blue screen of death” on your computers … 15″ to 21″ monitors etc but this time, it hit big! The opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympic games was - by all accounts - quite spectacular*. Especially the bit where Chinese gymnast Li Ning apparently jogged towards the torch despite being suspended more than 70 metres aloft.
The picture to the right shows him. It also shows an enormous Blue Scree of Death, a familiar site to Quake gamers. More interestingly, it shows that BSOD running - or not running - on Windows XP rather than the more up-to-date Vista operating system.
According to Lenovo chairman, Yang Yuanqing, quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald, “If it’s not stable, it could have some problems”.
We wonder how ex-Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates - who was watching from the stands - felt about the whole thing.
