Ritesh on Jan 18th, 2008OpenId a must for new properties
I have been a big fan of OpenId for a long time and also advice many people about the benefits of using it. What I really disliked was the fact that big names were missing from the OpenId directories. That changed as Yahoo is beta testing being an OpenId provider and the news is Great. [...]
Ritesh on Dec 19th, 2007Analytics gets a facelift and new tracking code
Google updated their Analytics product by launching a new script termed ga.js that is used for tracking. The new script handles more complexity than the original urchin.js script and the analytics tool itself has some new features that can be utilized only by ga.js tracking. You can also compare multiple metrics on the same graph [...]
Ritesh on Dec 12th, 2007Computers are better marketers than adsense publishers
The Algorithm is taking over and there is nothing we can do
In what can be termed as a not so wise decision, Google has decided to rid its customers the privilege of choosing where to put their ads. You will not be seeing the advertise on this site link on the served up [...]
Ritesh on Aug 13th, 2007Personalization is one cookie away
I wrote about personalization some time back and about how we should actually be approaching this problem. Google has got their act into place and are making your own light weight personalization meter, but its for ads
Google is going to put a cookie in your browser that will record information everytime you read [...]
Ritesh on May 31st, 2007Google Gears - first effort towards offline web
The craze for offline web has just started and we will see more and more momentum in this area. It was Brad Neuberg and the Dojo’s offline toolkit that started offering a swf based mechanism to access files offline, it was followed by some hacks and some other mechanisms. Now its the goog in action, [...]