I find that writing with my thumbs is tedious. Do people really use this for extended periods of time?
The autocomplete seems to help quite a bit, but even still I think people are going to need some sort of thumb therapy in about 10 years.
April 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Tracking Referals from a Campaign with Google
I get this question a lot: “how do I track how many people click through from my newsletter/ad/flux capacitor?” The best way to do it is to use Google’s URL Builder
What it does is tack on extra information to the URL for analytics tools (like Google Analytics and LiveStats) to chew on.
Here’s an example:
November 21, 2006 By Leave a Comment
People aren’t watching much video on their iPods
So sayeth Nielsen Media in a recent study.
Some quick numbers from the article:
- only 15.8 percent of iPod users ever played any video content on their iPod or iTunes
- only 1 percent of the content items played on an iPod or iTunes was video content
Unfortunately, the article doesn’t talk much about the demographics of the 400 iPod users they sampled. It would be interesting to run a similar study of college student iPod use where lecture videos were available via iTunes.
November 3, 2006 By 1 Comment
Lies, Darn Lies and Web Statistics
A big question that I often get is “how much traffic does my site get?”
That’s an excellent question, and we actually have an answer. The School of Business has an excellent statistics package that monitors the traffic to web pages on www.bus.wisc.edu.
But here’s the hitch, it needs to know which pages to track.
