November 2005

Firefox 1.5 is released

November 29, 2005

I saw that Firefox 1.5 was released today. I just downloaded it and will install later. I’m hoping they fixed a nasty memory leak I’ve been seeing, but haven’t had time to look into. Some of the new features include

Incubating ideas at Virginia Tech’s CRC

November 29, 2005

The November 28th issue of the Blue Ridge Business Journal has an article by Jeff Crooke entitled Incubating ideas at Virginia Tech’s CRC. Inside is a quote from yours truly:

Ultimate Guide to Google Services

November 25, 2005

TipMonkies has a great list entitled The Ultimate Guide to Google Services (via LifeHacker). Google watchers will be familiar with most of these, but the sheer number of services that Google is now offering is impressive.

Update on Google Analytics

November 25, 2005

Just a quick update on Google Analytics – it looks like the service is 100% up and running now. One really big caveat though – no new signups are occurring right now. This is great news for those of us who were able to get in early, but no so good news for everyone else. [...]

Yahoo launches ads in feeds

November 16, 2005

I just received an email from the Yahoo Publisher Network (competing with Google AdSense) announcing their support of ads in RSS feeds. Interestingly, it looks like they’ve beat Google to the punch on this one. Google has had their ads for feeds in beta for a long time now and still no public release. We’ve [...]

Measure Map and Google Analytics

November 15, 2005

One of my must-read blogs, TechCrunch, has a recent post entitled “Google Analytics Swings at Measure Map.” Though I love this site and its coverage on everything new and cool happening around the web, I have to take exception with that headline as it assumes something I don’t quite think is there yet with Measure [...]

Google Analytics released

November 14, 2005

Google launched its Analytics service today. I’m pretty excited about this service as we’re a big user of Google AdWords as well as Google AdSense at EvolvePoint. This seems to be the first public offering of web analytics from Google since their acquisition of Urchin. Although I’m very interested to see how Google Analytics integrates [...]