Removing Access To Your Analytics – Fast Friday Fact
You may be surprised how many people still have access to your site’s analytics. Here’s why that’s bad and how to change it.
Google Buzz Privacy – Fast Friday Fact
Yes, you’ve been buzzed. We all have. The way that Facebook’s Beacon project or Amazon’s long ago Buying Circles shredded another layer of privacy. Using Buzz it’s deceptively simple to share a private email address with a group of people. Part of that is tied into the use of what is fast becoming an [...]
Bigger Google – Fast Friday Fact
December’s search engine market share data is out from Hitwise. Don’t bother with the link The Fast Friday Fact is that Google’s share increased 1 point and the next 3 players (Yahoo, Microsoft’s Bing) all lost share. Google now has 72.25% of U.S. search engine market share. That’s why when people complain about [...]
Gmail’s Send and Archive Feature – Fast Friday Fact
Gmail users are able to customize their email experience as well as mail for almost any platform. That and the free or low cost may be one of the reasons for Gmail’s ubiquity. I even saw Gmail in use on Capitol Hill last year while visiting my Senator’s office. When I talk with Gmail users, [...]
Using Google’s DNS – Fast Friday Fact
A network connection’s DNS settings are kind of like your body’s DNA. DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System. This is the system that translates a string of numbers into the words you type in a browser to go to a web address. One way of thinking about this is accessing Yahoo! via your [...]
Google PageRank is Dead – Fast Friday Fact
Most people working in the online marketing world have known the truth about Google‘s infamous PageRank scoring for several years: it didn’t work, it wasn’t terribly accurate and attempting to classify the billions of pages on the web into 10 clusters was just plain silly. PageRank was named after Larry Page, one of the two [...]
PDFs Under Siege – Fast Friday Fact
That seemingly safe PDF you receive may not be as innocuous as it looks, warns Washington Post security guru Brian Krebs. Writing in today’s online edition, Krebs reports that PDF-format owner Adobe is warning of security vulnerabilities. According to Krebs, the company plans to release a fix Tuesday so that its software updates at the [...]
Trial Microsoft Products Before Buying – Fast Friday Fact
We were working with a client recently and the easy project management tools were proving to be too limited. Although both can take a long period to learn how to effectively use, we already knew how to use Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Project. Most of our small business clients don’t need that layer of [...]
No #DIV/0! Excel Errors – Fast Friday Fact
Are you tired of looking at spreadsheets that proudly proclaim that you’ve divided by zero? You know those spreadsheets. They’re riddled with ugly fields that show #DIV/O! or #N/A. Cleaning your spreadsheet doesn’t require an Excel ninja and is a snap to do. Microsoft’s Excel 2007 (sorry if you don’t have it, but it’s 2009 [...]
LA Times Station Fire Map Delivers News – Fast Friday Fact
What was that about old dogs and new tricks? Mixing a great Google Maps mashup with 24 hour reporting from a huge news organization, the Los Angeles Times tackled a huge local issue and absolutely owned the coverage. The Times added a blog and annotated map to its coverage of the Station Fire that remains [...]
