I have a few favorite companies in the local space. UMI is one – especially after they did their new parking release. LDC is another one – fantastic work they have done in the UK. Add another one to the list – Yipit (furniture search). I have long railed that there are too many ‘me-too’ [...]
So as we continue to do quite a few verification phone calls every day, people tend to mess up. Human nature. Recently I have gotten to thinking – Google has you enter a four digit PIN, and for whatever reason that popped in our head, we all agreed that a four digit PIN was good. [...]
But as more and more information goes on, being part of the conversation truly becomes very important. I am now on Twitter, and it will include even more inane-ness that springs to mind. hi-def quality wag the dog
Manhattan Neighborhoods as seen on iBegin Places. free download of shooter
It stands to reason that the executives from NBC and FOX keep a very close eye on viewer behavior on Hulu.com – stuff like pageviews, unique visitors, ad click rate, attention rate, etc – I am sure that is tracked closely. I can imagine this is also a way for them to circumvent the rather [...]
The latest news post on WordPress.com announces the availability of the Albeo Theme – made by none other than our Design Disease brand. That Elena is a fantastic designer. We already have roughly 2 million backlinks from our other free WP theme releases – I wonder what number this release will push it to? want [...]
So a few people have asked me … we ‘released’ iBegin Labs over 4 months ago, yet outside of this blog and the iBegin Blog we have never mentioned it. The thing is that we have a lot of stuff that we are working, testing, and experimenting with. As I alluded to in my earlier [...]
We’ve written a pretty simple engine internally that basically scrapes ad revenue from X Y Z sites, and then spits it all into a nice manageable table. We then go ahead and graph these – be it a line graph for growth over the course of the day/week/month etc, or bar graph that shows changes [...]
Was talking to Mike about Google’s stats for websites, and we thought it would be cool to see the reach for the biggest YP sites in the USA. Cut-off was 0.1% reach: Site Unique Visitors Reach City Search 7.4 M 3.2% YellowPages.com 6.8 M 3% SuperPages.com 6.2 M 2.7% Yelp 4.6 M 2% Local.com 3.2 [...]
I have found the TechVibes Top Start-ups list entertaining, and while looking over all the stats Google is now sharing, thought how the top 10 would play out: Plenty of Fish 620 K 2.4% Metro Lyrics 560 K 2.2% Nexopia 430 K 1.7% Zip Local 220 K 0.9% Suite 101/td> 200 K 0.8% iBegin 180 [...]