Woopra Real Time Web Analytics: The Future of Analytics

• 08 Feb 10
• Written by John Carnell

At the dawn of The Social Decade (2010) there has been a real need for better, more accurate and timely stats about our websites than we have had in the past. The Leading Analytics providers have been slow to adopt "Real Time" as part of their tool sets.

Enter Woopra to forever change the way you think about your website, your users, and your metrics.

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Is Facebook in Trouble? My Wife thinks so

• 07 Feb 10
• Written by John Carnell

This Sunday I was wondering what to write about in my usual rambling column, With Facebook launching yet another redesign I was musing to myself about what all this change means for the Facebook ecosystem.

It was then that my wife in a sudden moment of techclarity said:

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The Twitter Code Swarm

• 06 Feb 10
• Written by John Carnell

Twitter Code Swarm from Ben Sandofsky on Vimeo.

 

Get your own Addthis SocialBar as seen @Media140

• 06 Feb 10
• Written by John Carnell

When I was presenting my Keynote at Media140 I put out there my thoughts on "share" widgets, you know those clever little buttons that allow you to share a page with a wide range of services.

I found that out of all the "Share" services and widget providers that the AddThis ShareBar provides the highest number of share actions by a long way.

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Facebook 2010 Redesign goes live

• 06 Feb 10
• Written by John Carnell

Here's New Facebook.....sorry couldn't resist. Facebook have rolled out what I'm calling the Facebook 2010 redesign, it's not like Facebook has an official code name for it sadly.

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How Vodafone lost Twitter control

• 05 Feb 10
• Written by John Carnell

From the "You couldn't make this up if you tried" pile Vodafone have had to issue multiple apologies after what appears to be a rogue employee tweeted out the following on Vodafone's Twitter account.

"is fed up with dirty homo's and is going after beaver"

This is a massive backfire for Vodafone on just about every level you could imagine, they tweeted the following apology:

"A severe breach of rules by staff in our building, dealing with that internally" "We're very sorry"

It remains to be seen what further fall out there may be from this, here are my theories on what exactly happend:

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Welcome to the Social Decade #Media140 Presentation

• 05 Feb 10
• Written by John Carnell

I was very kindly asked If I would like to give a Keynote presentation at the Media140 charity event on the 4th of Febuary 2010, the subject of my presentation was "Welcome to the Social Decade" a look at building communities using Social Media with @BullyingUK as my example:

I hope I was informative and gave everyone something useful to take a way work on, the next 10 years will change the way charities and the general public interact forever as I said be open, be honest and people will love you for it.
 

Twitter details another Phishing attack

• 03 Feb 10
• Written by John Carnell

Twitter have let everyone know of another attempt to compromised accounts of Twitter users, this one however was an attack of a different nature. If you got a warning yesterday to change your password you should do so and it's always wise to change your passwords every few months.

Here is what Twitter had to say it's long:

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Donations from your iPhone app Forget it say Apple #appledonatefail

• 02 Feb 10
• Written by John Carnell

Bullying UK recently released version 1 of it's iPhone app to much applause from many people, I got to work on a version 2 using the excellent AppMakr I figured for the next version I would add a donation button and a nice bit of copy to ask for a donation.

I submitted the app and waited, some time later the app was rejected by AppMakr and I have just been told why.  Apparently Apple won't allow you to include a donation button in applications.

Here is what appmakr had to say:

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How to: Make Facebook Faster

• 01 Feb 10
• Written by John Carnell

Yes we all love to hate Facebook, but especially annoying of late is how sloooow Facebook is getting. It reminds me of the Great Myspace Crawl of 2005 all over again, the good news is I think I have found a way to give your account a little bit of a speed boost.

Now first off you could check out Facebook Lite, which is generally a lot quicker and less bug ridden that the main Facebook site. Ok so that's an option but what about normal Facebook.com what can we do to speed that up?

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