Archive - November 2008

Nov 23 2008

Anywhere that it is possible to advertise, someone will. This age old idea continues to be proven out online. With the rise of text messaging and now "Tweeting" on Twitter.com - so to has risen the use of URL redirection services in order to send ridiculously long URLs via short little links. The originator of this was the venerable Tinyurl.com. With that service you could take a Google Maps URL like this...

Nov 16 2008

...look out Google Analytics?

Not likely.

Sorry Yahoo!, but the track record hasn't been so hot lately. The cultural differences between Yahoo! and Google are painfully obvious and apparently unchangeable for poor Yahoo!. The big Panama PPC admin system relaunch hasn't panned out and made for a better management experience. Their copy of the Adsense program still isn't as good as the original. Ergo - I have to believe the product life cycle for Yahoo! Analytics will be similarly reactionary and half hearted.

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