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The Joy Of 404-Ing

A 404 "page not found" error shows a problem happened when someone tried to reach a web page. Webmasters should reach for the opportunity to make those occasions work for them, not against them.

Web Analytics Predictions for the New Year

If you're looking for Web Analytics predictions for 2008 then I recommend checking out Rich Page's blog where he posts about his thoughts for what's to come in 2008.

More Features with New Google Toolbar Version

Google has released version 5 of it's popular toolbar, now with many more additional features. http://toolbar.google.com/T5/intl/en/index.html

Hitwise Looks At An Asia Pacific Holiday Season

It’s nearly Christmas, and that means it’s time for sales of boots and heavy hats to increase.  Unless, that is, you’re in the Asia Pacific, where new Hitwise data uncovered an interest in Crocs and Oakley sunglasses.

Adobe, Yahoo Testing PDF Ad Service

A beta test of Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo opened for publishers, offering placement and tracking of contextual ads alongside Portable Document Format content.

Google Expands Contests to Pre-College Kids

Building on the success of the Summer of Code Contests, Google has expanded the contests to now include the pre-College community. The contest is open to students age 13 and older who have not yet begun university studies, and contestants will be able to claim tasks until 12:00 a.m. Pacific Time on January 22, 2008. We hope that students who participate will be long-term contributors to these and other open source projects in the future, and we look forward to announcing the grand-prize winners on February 11.

A Chat with Robert Bergquist, CEO of Widemile

A little while back I got the chance to speak with Robert Bergquist, CEO of widemile (specializing in multivariate testing and optimization - based in Seattle).

The Difficulty With Grabbing Attention In Search

Those much-revered top five placements on search engines for a given set of keywords only draws the viewer's attention for seven seconds. Gord Hotchkiss sees this short attention span as a call to brands to keep doing their market research.

The BlogCritics Radio Channel

BlogTalkRadio (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/) and BlogCritics (http://blogcritics.org/), , today announced the creation of the new “BlogCritics Radio” Channel on BlogTalkRadio.com.

Open Handset Alliance Releases Android SDK

The Open Handset Alliance released the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) today.