New Sharing Statistics from ShareThis

Late last year I reported some web content sharing statistics (from August 2008) from ShareThis, the news sharing service. At the time, I was surprised by the large percentage of email and Facebook sharing and the absence of Twitter. Now, ShareThis has produced updated share percentages for January.

ShareThis Share Percentages Jan 2009

Unfortunately the variance [...]

February 23rd, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Social Networking | One comment

How to make Twitter even more useful

These days, I find myself using Twitter more and more to stay informed. By following a handful of thought leaders, tech luminaries, celebrities and friends, I get a steady stream of news, links to content around the web, opinions and even conversations. But as Twitter grows in popularity, it is becoming increasingly difficult to filter [...]

February 19th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Social Networking | Leave a comment

Is Google Analytics Being Evil?

There is an interesting article over on Sitepoint and originally broken by Michael VanDeMar about recent tests Google has been conducting to offer AJAX search instead of the standard HTML search it currently offers. Essentially, AJAX is supposed to improve the user experience by speeding up search. Besides some Firefox plugins possibly no longer working, [...]

February 4th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Web Analytics | 3 comments