Because stats are just so delicious.
So I was looking over the stats for one of the local search sites we own (European) – 500,000+ searches, so a decent spread. (An aside – we operate and test roughly a dozen simple local search sites for various countries to gauge user-reaction on quality of data). The site does roughly 4000 unique visitors [...]
With a ton of stuff to deal with I did write about my takeaways from the GeoDomain Expo.
One thing I haven’t liked about iBegin Source was that we had one of the worst sites for convincing prospective customers to purchase from us. All changed now. New design, new style, more substance. It was quite the mad dash – I’m off to San Francisco now and won’t be back until Sunday. In the [...]
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Yahoo’s FireEagle. In a nutshell – an API that lets you query and figure out where a user is. Not user IP baloney – far more accurate. The site itself is rather plain – hopefully I can get in soon and find out how the system works (eg – [...]
So I was looking at the subdomain breakdown of Google via Alexa. The fourth most popular is Video, with Google Maps (and local) coming in at #8. Even more oddly Google Maps only had 1% of visits, with Video pulling in 3%. And even more perplexing Google Maps falls behind Picasa, Groups, and Translate (wha?!?) [...]
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a metropolis kind-of-guy. I like walking around to get what I want. I hate using my car. Toronto was ideal for me – within 5 minutes I had everything I could want – subway, grocery stores, dozens of restaurants (I lived in Yorkville), dozens of shops, 24 hour [...]
At least that is how I see it Andy Sack has posted what he thinks are the two biggest mistakes Judy’s Book made. The first one is one we have battled with too. How far can we push on our users? MySpace was jump-started with spam-emails to a lot of people – but who remembers [...]
More specifically: the non-commercial license I know there are quite a few of you in the local scene that read this blog – I expect your comments there
Finally – we’ve expanded iBegin Source into Canada. The iBegin Blog covers the details of the update. We are likely going to settle on US & Canada for now, though we are definitely still gathering information on other English-speaking countries (UK, Australia, NZ). While I wouldn’t expect anything for a while – don’t think we’re [...]