U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently granted Microsoft a patent on a “personalized version” of the sudo command with GUI. Sudo is a command that has been in use since 1980’s or even before by Unix and other operating systems to allow running other commands with elevated privileges. For one, why would Microsoft try to patent something like this? Secondly, does USPTO grant patents on anything you ask them for? Read more…
Google just released Go as a new open source programming language that aims to simplify the complex software development model of modern programming languages, especially in the areas of dependency management and multi-threading. Read more…
Google Wave – a game changer that will change the very fundamentals of communications and collaboration over Internet as we know it today. If this technology takes off, as I believe it will, tools like e-mail and IM that we have grown to love and depend upon will gradually cease to exist. Other collaboration tools such as discussion forums, social networking, and blogging tools will change dramatically.
If you have not done so yet, checkout the Google Wave preview video here.
It’s not what product you use to collect and analyze web site usage data. It’s not about counting the page views, click-throughs, unique vistors, or hits. It’s not even about pretty pie charts, bar graphs, or heat maps. What web analytics is about is the “process” to collect and analyze usage data in order to gain solid, actionable insight into your customers. This insight when used properly can easily translate into significantly higher conversion rates. Read more…
