How-To 5 Critical Web Metrics To Keep a Close Eye On You probably have a good idea of how many page views and unique visitors your company's website gets, but how many people are truly interacting with your brand? How successful are your digital marketing efforts? Traditional Web analytics metrics can provide a ton of actionable intelligence about your site's users, but only when they're… John Paul Titlow View comments
Apple Fake Chinese iPads No Longer Hot Sellers China's vibrant "shanzhai" (also "shanzai") industry, which modifies or knocks off existing electronic products, quickly pounced on the iPad as it did many other phones and devices. Shanzai.com, a site that reviews these ersatz gadgets, reported the first iPad clone in March. Since then the faux iPads have reportedly been selling like crazy… Adrianne Jeffries View comments
Blogging Turn-key, Customizable WordPress Hosting & Maintenance Now Offered by WP Engine A small team of high-profile developers are unveiling its new service for hosting customizable but automatically maintained WordPress publishing software installs tonight. WP Engine seeks to serve what they believe is a large market: businesses that need more customizability than WordPress.com hosted accounts offer at low-end prices but more… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Amazon Kindle Wins E-Reader Price Battle, But It Hasn't Won the War Is the latest, cheapest Kindle ($139) evidence of an escalating e-reader price war? The Kindle has gotten pleasantly better and cheaper since its debut for $399 in 2007, when it sold out in hours. By last year, the price was down to $259. Then in June, Barnes & Noble slashed the price of its Nook e-reader to $199. Amazon dropped the price of… Adrianne Jeffries View comments
Cloud Computing Gist Gets $4 Million and the Catalyst is the Cloud The social enterprise space continues to gain acceptance. After years of promise, the market seems to be truly hitting its stride. This is best represented by the continued funding of social enterprise services such as Gist, which today announced it raised another $4 million. A catalyst for this new energy has to be how it's working together… Alex Williams View comments