Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Downtime, data centers and gross incompetence:   José Carrilho August 7, 2010 at 12:01 pm Hi, Among several facts that didctate the success of social networks, is one that I find influent: the media. Like social networks have influence nowdays, also the number of users and visits that they get is conditioned by how and […]

I love love love Google Analytics because it is powerful and free and provides endless amounts of data for me to tease out and analyze. Getting started with Google Analytics can be overwhelming because there’s so many things to track. Here’s a cheatsheet mindmap to show you where everything ‘sits’ in the Google Analytics interface. […]

You’re not crazy: Facebook’s interface is hard to learn. Sure posting things and sharing is pretty straighforward, but if you want to figure out what goes where and who can see it, that is a bit more of a challenge. I took some time on the plane to Charlotte to put together a cheatsheet. Click […]

From the perpetually useful folks at MarketingSherpa, a list of things to NOT put in your HTML-version of your email newsletter: No animated gifs, Flash, background images, CSS floats, forms, JavaScript events, images in place of bullets. Also: With the exception of color, CSS background properties are not supported; this includes background-attachment, background-position, background-repeat and […]

The oldz are taking over! Royal Pingdom crunches data from Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Slashdot, Reddit, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed, Last.fm, Friendster, LiveJournal, Hi5, Tagged, Ning, Xanga, Classmates.com and Bebo. Full report… yst February 18, 2010 at 2:12 pm So I guess the message here is that facebook has become a business platform more than […]

From Roger Ebert’s interiew in Esquire: When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be. via Esquire

So we are applying for a new apartment in Charlotte before our move from San Francisco in April. We have to provide proof of employment and income to our leasing agent. Makes sense. I send in my offer letter so they can see my salary/etc. Then for Ron we have to use The Work Number […]

Read Write Web had a post earlier about Facebook becoming the default identity for online users. Due to the magic of SEO, they were one of the top search results for facebook login leading hundreds of people to think that Read Write Web was a re-designed Facebook and much ALL CAPS excitement. Such as: I […]

Tina Brown (from Vanity Fair, New Yorker, Tatler and Talk) got $18 million from Barry Diller to launch The Daily Beast. An article on Gawker shows she doesn’t seem to be fully in touch with the changing economics of publishing: There’s no such thing as an issue anymore – print it when you get it […]

When Blogwild was hitting the bookshelves, I’d go to our local Borders bookstore every day after the gym to see if it was in stock yet. What was always in stock was The Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer. The book had a distinctive binding, bright layout, punchy advice and a red ribbon […]