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.
Web analytics is the science of collecting and analyzing your web site usage data so that you can optimize your site for best results. For example, if you analyze the click behavior of your web site users, you can learn how to best place links on your site to encourage most sales. Similarly if you learn about the demographics of your users, you can target marketing campaigns to those demographics that yield most results.
There are several tools that can be used for web analytics. Some of these are paid, while others are free. Below I will discuss some of the most useful tools available. Read more…
Finally a new version of SubSonic was released today with a lot of new features. SubSonic is one of my favorite Data Access Layer (DAL) generators, that makes it super easy to create data access code.
As a developer you have a lot of control over what the generated code looks like, which is great because I do not like code generators to dictate the essence of my code. But the beauty of SubSonic is that you never really have to interact with the generated code itself. It’s automatically generated and compiled for you — you just need to learn how to use it, which is pretty simple. What’s more, it’s free, and works with not only SQL Server, but also with MySQL, SQLite, and Oracle databases. Read more…
Google is about to launch a new service that will allow you to take complete control of your voice communications. This service will offer features like Unified Messaging, Voicemail transcription, Call Screening, Free calls to U.S. numbers, and much much more!
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